Castle Rock (Stephen King)
Castle Rock, Maine is part of Stephen King’s fictional Maine topography and provides the setting for a number of his novels, novellas, and short stories. Built similarly to the fictional Maine towns of Jerusalem's Lot (featured in the novel 'Salem's Lot) and Derry (featured in the novels It, Insomnia, Dreamcatcher, and 11/22/63), Castle Rock is a typical small New England town with many dark secrets.
Castle Rock first appeared in the novel The Dead Zone, and has been used in several other King works since (see list below). King originally intended to stop using Castle Rock as the setting of his works after the novel Needful Things, although this was followed by an epilogue in the short story "It Grows on You". Castle Rock was later mentioned in works such as Riding the Bullet and as part of the setting for Bag of Bones.
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