Since publishing his 1974 debut novel Carrie - a horror about a clairvoyant schoolgirl - in 1974 Stephen King has written over 65 novels and over 200 short stories.
It’s seen him become a publishing phenomenon, with over 400 million books sold around the world.
And it’s not just about horror - he wrote under the pseudonym Richard Bachman in a bid to break away from genre and has also penned fantasy epic The Dark Tower.
His books have been turned into a multitude of Hollywood blockbuster, including classic like The Shining and The Shawshank Redemption.
Most recently Longlegs director Osgood Perkins has tackled the Stephen King short story The Monkey, with the film of the same name starring Theo James released this week.
Only time will tell if it ends up taking its place in this list of the best Stephen King cinematic adaptations of all time - according to review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes.
5. The Dead Zone (1983)
Directed by pioneering horror filmmaker David Cronenberg, The Dead Zone stars Christopher Walken as a teacher who awakes from a coma to discover he has psychic powers. It has a positive rating of 89 per cent. | Contributed
6. Dolores Claiborne (1995)
Five years after Misery, Kathy Bates starred in another well-received Stephen King adaptation, with Dolores Claiborne earning positive reviews from 86 per cent of critics. She plays the titular character who is accused of murdering an elderly woman she has been caring for. | Contributed
7. It (2017)
The first of two films based on Stephen King's epic book about a group of children growing up in an American town infested with evil earns a 85 per cent rating on the Tomatometer. Directed by Andy Muschietti, It features a genuinely terrifying performance by Bill Skarsgård as the nightmarish Pennywise the clown. | Contributed
8. The Shining (1980)
Horror films don't come much more iconic than Stanley Kubrick's The Shining - so it's amazing that it ranks a lowly 8th on our list with a rating of 83 per cent. Starring Jack Nicholson, it tells the story of an aspiring writer who gets the job of being a winter caretaker for a spooky and remote hotel, taking his family with him. Stephen King himself is not a fan of the film - but he's very much in the minority. | Contributed