Stephen King at King's alma mater, the University of Maine in Orono, for many years and had been covered by numerous King experts. King rewrote the original 1973 manuscript for its publication. King has used other pseudonyms. The short story "The Fifth Quarter" was published under the pseudonym John Swithen (the name of a character in the novel "Carrie"), that was published in "Cavalier" in April 1972. The story was reprinted in King's collection "Nightmares & Dreamscapes" in 1993 under his own name. In the introduction to the Bachman novel "Blaze", King claims, with tongue-in-cheek, that "Bachman" was the person using the
Cultural depictions of Stephen, King of England screen. He was played by Frederick Treves in the 1978 BBC TV series "The Devil's Crown", which dramatised the reigns of Henry II, Richard I and John, and by Michael Grandage in "One Corpse Too Many," the first episode of the television adaptation of the "Cadfael" novels (1994). Stephen is portrayed in Ken Follett's #1 "New York Times" Bestseller "The Pillars of the Earth" (1990). He only appears a few times in the historical fiction novel, and is depicted as more of warrior than a king. The novel was re-released in 2010 and subsequently made into a mini-series, "The Pillars