Blaze (novel) Blaze (novel) Blaze is a novel by American writer Stephen King, published under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman. King announced on his website that he "found it" in an attic. In fact (as mentioned in the afterword of "Different Seasons") it was written before "Carrie" and King offered the original draft of the novel to his Doubleday publishers at the same time as "'Salem's Lot". They chose the latter to be his second novel and "Blaze" became a "trunk novel." King rewrote the manuscript, editing out much of what he perceived as over-sentimentality in the original text, and offered 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