King has had references in 6 episodes and had a cameo in a 7th - The Episode called "Insane Clown Poppy" aired in the 12th season on November 12, 2000. There he meets Marge and she asks him if he is writing any new horror... King says - "I'm working on a biography of Benjamin Franklin. He's a fascinating man. He discovered electricity, and used it to torture small animals and Green Mountain men. And that key he tied to the end of a kite? It opened the gates of Hell!" Marge asks him to contact her when he gets back to horror, and he writes a note to himself - Call Marge, re: horror.

Bart: "Don't you mean The Shining?
Groundskeeper Willy: "Shh, boy! Do you wanna get sued?"

In the late 70s and early 80s, King published novels under Bachman - Rage (1977), The Long Walk (1979), Road Work (1981), and The Running Man (1982). The novels had hints to Richards actual identity. Fans quickly caught on, in 1985 King admitted being Bachman. In the 1989 book The Dark Half he dedicate the book to: "the deceased Richard Bachman", In 1996 King released The Regulators under the Bachman byline.

Mr. King is of Scottish - Irish ancestry. He stands tall at six foot four. Has Blue eyes and thick black hair. King sometimes grows a beard between the end of the World Series and the opening of spring training in Florida. King wears glasses at times that he has had since his early childhood.

King spent part of his child hood where his father's family lived in Fort Wayne, Indiana and Stratford, Connecticut. Both King and his brother still paid frequent visits to his mother's family in Massachusetts and Maine. At the age of six King had his eardrum punctured many times and was a painful experience, which he says he'll never forget.

All was going in a straight line for the King family until one night in the year 1950. King's father who was a merchant seaman and worked as a door-to-door sales man for Electrolux walked out on the family. Donald King had told everybody he was stepping out for a pack of cigarettes and never returned or was heard from again. Ruth King was left alone with not much money, having to take care of King and his brother alone. Many times working two jobs and with the help and support of Ruth's Family they managed to get through. After moving into many different states, in 1958 the King's moved back to the state of Maine. Ruth's parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was talked into by her sisters to take over the physical care of her parents. Other family members provided a small house in Durham, Maine and financial support. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. King found a job in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally handicapped.

In January of 1959, King took his first steps towards his writing career. King and his brother David decided to publish their own local newspaper called: " Dave's Rag". David bought a small mimeograph and together they made about 20 copies a week of the paper that sold at five cents an issue.

In The fall of 1962 King attended Lisbon High School in Lisbon, Maine. In the year 1963, King and his best friend Chris Chesley publish a collection of stories on their own. This collection was called: "People, Places and Things - Volume 1". This collection had a total of 18 stories and King's included: "Hotel at the End of the Road", "I've Got to Get Away!", "The Dimension Warp", "The Thing at the Bottom of the Well", "The Stranger", "I'm Falling", "The Cursed Expedition", and "The Other Side of the Fog." One year later King's amateur press Triad and Gaslight Books, published a two-part book titled "The Star Invaders." In 1965 King had made his first actual published appearance. It was a short story called: "I Was a Teenage Grave Robber." The story was published in the magazine: " Comics Review" and was about 6,000 words in length.

King graduated from Lisbon Falls High school in the year 1966 looking back at his years in High School King was quoted: "my high school career was totally undistinguished. I was not at the top of my class, nor at the bottom. In 1967, at the age of 18, he sold his first professional short story to Startling Mystery stories. The short story was called "The Glass Floor" and King sold the story for thirty-five dollars.

After he took a scholarship, King went on to the college at the University of Main in the town of Orono. It was here he wanted to get a bachelors of arts degree in English. In his sophomore year he wrote a weekly column for his school paper called: The Main Campus. He was also a member of the Student Senate and supported the anti-war movement on the campus, believing the Vietnam War was unconstitutional. It was here at college working at the Fogler Library on campus as a student he met his future wife Tabitha Spruce (who was also a student working at the library as a student). He graduated in 1970 with a B.A in English. King was now qualified to teach on the high school level. A draft board examination however immediately post-graduation finding him 4-F on grounds of high blood pressure, punctured eardrums, flat feet and limited vision.

King and Tabitha got married in January in the year 1971. Later that year King and Tabitha had their first child, a girl they named Naomi Rachel. King was having problems finding a teaching job so he made his money working as a laborer at an industrial laundry company and occasionally for selling short stories to men's magazines (many of these stories were put later on into the Night Shift collection and other king short story collections). They also had the help of Tabitha's student loans and savings. It was not until the fall of 1971 that King got his first teaching job. King was now teaching English classes at a private high school called "Hampden Academy" in Hampden Maine. Here his earnings were $6,400 a year. The Kings then moved to Hermon, Main.

King continued to write starting his first novel about a girl named: "Carietta White". King wrote a couple of pages to the book when he found the story to be a waste of time because he thought the story was not very worthy to be published. King crumpled up the pages and threw them away. The book that was to later become "Carrie", now sat in the trashcan. Un-known to King, his future was now a piece of garbage! Lucky for King his wife Tabitha took out the papers uncrumpled them and read them all. After reading the story she went to her husband and encouraged him to finish the book. King fortunately did so! In January of 1973, King summited the story to the paperback company, Doubleday. In March of '73 Doubleday bought the book. King was given a much need advance of $2,500! Carrie sold only 13,000 hardcover copies. King was not prepared for what came next.

On May 12th of the same year King got a phone call from Doubleday. They had sold the story to Signet or New American Library for it's paperback rights for $400,000! This was good news to the Kings after finding out by contract rights the Kings received half. $200,000! Two months ago it was 2,500 and now 200,000! King had no idea, that what was once a piece of garbage, could be worth so much! The news allowed King to quit his teaching and become a writer full time.

In the summer of '73 Kings mother's health was failing. This made King move his family to southern Maine, renting a summer home on Sebago Lake for the winter months. It was here that Stephan King began to write: " Second Coming", he later changed it to "Jerusalem's Lot". King finished the book in a small garage in his summer home. During the writing of the book, King's mother at the age of 59 died of cancer. Even with the sad times that followed, King finished the book and for a third and final time renamed it "Salem's Lot." The rest went from there.

Despite having a drinking problem in 1975 during the writing of the "Shining" and a drug problem in the early 80's, Followed by being hit by a van in 1999 that caused surgery and rehabilitation. King had become the biggest name in horror writing. Often called " The Man" by his fans.

King has had five novels listed on the New York Times best-seller list all at the same time. By the early '90s King's books had sold over 100 million copies worldwide. Has had many stories and novels turned into movies for the big-screen and TV. Some big name directors where making his movies such as Rob Reiner and Brian De Palma. In '98 he was ranked #31 on Forbes top 40 list of Entertainers. He has been an actor in almost all of his movies. Has had three children and some grand children. And so much more. Since his childhood King has truly come a long ways!