(I presume you mean Stephen King, not a much-less-famous Steven.)

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "specialized in fleeting ... references." He's still writing, for one thing. He writes (or wrote, when I still read him regularly) books that are very of their time, rather than being set in some generic Present Day, which actually makes them age a lot more gracefully, because you can treat them as recent historical fiction rather than wait-that's-not-right. He also writes plenty of out-and-out fantasy, eg Eye of the Dragon, Wizard and Glass, etc.