Stevie King, a character in the Season 3 episode "The Boogieman" was a fictionalized depiction of what was supposed to be the teenaged future murder/horror novelist Steven King, living with his family in the fictional town of Coventry, Maine, in 1964. The role of Stevie, who was supposedly, in the episode, a protogee and assistant of second-rate horror novelist Joshua Ray, whom Dr. Samuel Beckett leaps into to save town handyman Tully Maltin, is played in the episode by David Kriegel.