Adapted from a Stephen King short story, 1408 checks into UK cinemas this weekend. Take our test to find out how much you know about the monarch of the modern-day horror flick.

		What is Stephen King's most oft-used pseudonym?
			Bryan Smith
			Richard Bachman
			Jack Torrance
			David Keith
		King's novella The Body formed the basis of which movie?
			Pet Sematary
			Salem's Lot
			The Shawshank Redemption
			Stand By Me
		In The Shining the book that Jack Nicholson was writing contained one sentence typed over and over again. What was it?
			All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
			Five minutes soft-boiled, seven minutes hard-boiled
			You don't have to be mad to work here but it helps
			Here's Johnny!
		What did Stephen King do after he was knocked down and seriously injured by a mini-van?
			He announced his retirement from writing in order to start an alligator farm in Florida
			He was forced to cancel his cameo appearance in The Green Mile
			He wrote the novel Thinner, which begins with a pedestrian being knocked over by a driver who has lost control of his car
			He bought the van and said he was going to take a sledgehammer to it
		When it transpired that it bore no relation to original material, Stephen King sued to have his name removed from the credits of which film?
			Night Flier
			Christine
			The Lawnmower Man
			Dolores Claiborne
		How did Sissy Spacek keep in the character of Carrie?
			She kept moving props about the set just by thinking about them
			She refused to speak to any of the actors for the entire shoot
			She stayed in a hostel for young arsonists
			She didn't wash some pigs' blood off for two days so it would look authentic in each scene
		How much does Stephen King traditionally demand from student film-makers for the rights to adapt his short stories
			A pint of blood (to be donated to their local hospital)
			$100,000
			One dollar
			$10,000
		Stephen King has directed only one film based on his writing. Which one?
			Maximum Overdrive
			Cujo
			Children of the Corn
			Cat's Eye
		What's the name of Stephen King's writers' rock group?
			The Rock Bottom Remainders
			Pulp Daddy and the Out-of-Printers
			Dump Bin
			The Tommyknockers
		Three genuine Stephen King movie cameos. One dark and dastardly impostor. Spot the odd one out.
			He makes an appearance as a pizza delivery boy in Rose Red
			He is shown throwing the first pitch of a Boston Red Sox game in the US version of Fever Pitch
			He crops up as a slow-witted Death Row inmate in The Green Mile
			He appears as a minister at a funeral in the film Pet Sematary