Question: Who wrote the novella that inspired the film that the actor born as Thomas Elliott III starred in during 2007?
Context: Stuart Thomas Elliott (born 27 August 1977) is an English semi-professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Northern League Division One club Ashington. Thomas Elliott "Tommy" Wright (born 10 January 1966) is a Scottish former footballer and football coach. Asylum Days is a 2001 thriller film directed by Thomas Elliott. Thomas Elliott Byrum (born September 28, 1960) is an American professional golfer. Joseph Thomas Elliott Jr. (born 1 August 1959) is an English singer-songwriter and musician, best known as the lead singer of the English rock band Def Leppard.  He has also been the lead singer of the David Bowie tribute band the Cybernauts and the Mott the Hoople cover band Down 'n' Outz.  He is one of the two original members of Def Leppard and one of the three to perform on every Def Leppard album. Miraj Grbic is a Film, Television and Theatre actor born on July 17, 1976 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.  He currently lives in Los Angeles, California.  Miraj graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo at the University of Sarajevo, where he earned MA Degree in Acting.  Since 1996 he has performed in more than 60 theater plays on the main stage of the Sarajevo National Theatre.  He starred in almost 40 Feature films in Bosnian, Croatian, German, Austrian, Italian, Irish, Polish, Turkish, Macedonian, Australian, Canadian and US productions.  He starred as Bogdan in "", where he performed opposite Tom Cruise.  Grbic starred in television shows such as "Ruža vjetrova", "Lud, zbunjen, normalan", "Gang Related" and "Viza za budućnost".  He lives in Los Angeles since 2013. Thomas Jane (born Thomas Elliott III; February 22, 1969) is an American actor.  He is known for appearing in such films as "Padamati Sandhya Ragam" (1987), "Boogie Nights" (1997), "The Thin Red Line" (1998), "Deep Blue Sea" (1999), "The Punisher" (2004), "The Mist" (2007) and the upcoming "The Predator" (2018).  Jane's television roles include Mickey Mantle in the television film "61*" (2001) and starring in the HBO series "Hung" (2009–2011) and the lead role of Detective Joe Miller in the science fiction series "The Expanse" (2015–2017). The Mist (also known as Stephen King's The Mist) is a 2007 American science-fiction horror film based on the 1980 novella "The Mist" by Stephen King.  The film was written and directed by Frank Darabont.  Darabont had been interested in adapting "The Mist" for the big screen since the 1980s.  The film features an ensemble cast including Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Samuel Witwer, Toby Jones, and future "The Walking Dead" actors Jeffrey DeMunn, Juan Gabriel Pareja, Laurie Holden, and Melissa McBride. Thomas Elliott (born 21 August 1867, date of death unknown) was a New Zealand cricketer.  He played twelve first-class matches for Auckland between 1894 and 1906. Stephen "Steve" George Arbuckle is a Canadian born actor born in the village of Donkin (Arbuckle Lane), Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.  He started his career as a theatre actor at Cape Breton University, then made his first move into film in 2003 with the lead role in the short film "Todd and the Book of Pure Evil", which also starred Julian Richings and John Bregar.  He appeared as Oliver Peele in 2010 in the pilot episode of the CBS show "Blue Bloods".  Arbuckle is now living in Toronto, Ontario.
Answer: Stephen King