Connections With Laymon's Other Works
The bulk of the novel's flashbacks take place at Belmore University, a fictional Liberal Arts college referenced in several of Laymon's novels (and based largely on his own experiences at Willamette University in Oregon). In addition, one of the girls quotes a passage from "Ulalume", poem by Edgar Allan Poe, which was the basis of Laymon's 2001 novel Night in the Lonesome October.
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