He wrote scripts for movies like The Shinning and Rose Red, The Stand is a very famous novel that made it into a TV movie, it has this huge group of fans, and people who are completely crazy about them, like you guys in the US have those people who their lives is star wars and star trek (never got it though, star trek is lame and boring).
This is the problem with todays youth they are so hooked up on new technologies they don't bother to read anymore, oh well, it's their loss.