King makes one of his briefest cameos ever in the season 2 premiere of this series, which was based on his epic sci-fi tome about a town literally encased in a force field by some sadistic aliens. Centering on a haunted hospital, the show only lasted for its one truncated season, but like clockwork, King shows up towards the end as a creepy maintenance man named Johnny B. King’s next original teleplay - a Haunting-like tale of a team of psychics investigating a massive haunted house - featured the author in one of his more typical working stiff roles, this time as a pizza delivery guy who brings dinner to the gang and probably deserves a bigger tip for the rude way he’s spoken to.īased on a Danish miniseries created by Lars Von Trier ( Antichrist), the American version of the story was developed as a regular TV series by King (who also wrote or co-wrote nine of the 13 episodes). But oddly enough, he’s listed as having two: he apparently played a “lawyer in ad” and a “reporter on broken TV” (thanks, IMDB), both uncredited. I’ll be honest: it’s been a while since I last watched Storm of the Century - the first King miniseries based not on a novel, but on a quite excellent original teleplay - and I don’t remember King’s cameos in these. King’s cameo as a spectral bandleader - weirdly named Gage Creed after the dead toddler in Pet Sematary - is cute though as he shows off a few dance moves. While the TV version of The Shining had its strong points, let’s just say that Kubrick’s horror milestone had nothing to worry about.

King was famously so unhappy with Stanley Kubrick’s version of his classic third published novel that he wrote his own miniseries, with pal Mick Garris directing again. Bangor (that’s King’s hometown for non-diehards). King turns up as a pharmacist, amusingly named Mr. King’s novel (written under the name Richard Bachman) about a heavyset lawyer who is literally disappearing due to a gypsy’s curse was made into a rather forgettable movie starring one-time RoboCop Robert John Burke.

One of the passengers is a mentally deteriorating broker named Craig Toomy (Bronson Pinchot), who hallucinates at one point that he’s confronting his oily, money-hungry boss, Tom Holby - played by the author - just before the title monsters gobble him up.

One of King’s less well-received miniseries, this weird sci-fi saga takes place on a plane that has become displaced in time.

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