Stephen King
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| Name: | Stephen King |
| Also Known As: | Richard Bachman |
| Occupation: | Author |
| Medium: | television, movie, comics |
| Works: | IT, Carrie, Misery, The Shining, The Dark Tower, Under the Dome |
| Official Website(s): | stephenking.com |
| Fan Website(s): | |
| On Fanlore: | Related pages |
Stephen King is a prolific writer of novels and short stories, mostly in the horror, suspense and science fiction genres. A great many of his stories have been adapted into films or television series.
In the East Asian countries with the largest population and especially in Japanese-speaking fandom, his works have attained a level of prominence and popularity among JRPG fans, cinephiles, and horror fans. King's books and adaptations of them (especially Stand By Me) have inspired games such as EarthBound, which in turn, inspired media such as Homestuck, which in turn, inspired Undertale, Deltarune, and the game Starbound.
Fannish Engagement
King's novels, particularly IT and Dark Tower series, have produced some fannish activity in terms of fanworks, especially fanart.
King is a self-proclaimed X-Phile. In the television special for the first X-Files feature film Fight the Future, he shares an anecdote about how he and his son watched a season finale of the show during his son's wedding. He also wrote a script that received a shared writing credit with Chris Carter for the season 5 episode "Chinga". King also references The X-Files in a lot in his novels.
Stance on Fanfiction
King has not given any official statements regarding how he feels about fanfiction. However, early in his career, he wrote two transformative short stories based on the works of other authors ("The Doctor's Case" and "Crouch End," about Sherlock Holmes and H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulu mythos, respectively), and the eight-book Dark Tower series is based on Robert Browning's Childe Roland To The Dark Tower Came and borrows heavily from a plethora of other sources. In addition to the "canonical" books, there are a series of King-approved derivative comics written by Robin Furth and Peter David. Although King serves as "Creative and Executive Director" of these comics, much of the material contradicts the history of All-World as given in the original series.