Location Index

Juniper Hill Asylum is a mental hospital in Maine (either in Augusta or near Castle Rock). In IT, Henry Bowers spends some time there.

Shawshank is a fictional Maine prison that pops up in a number of Stephen King books and short stories. It's most well known as the location where Andy Dufresne meets a prisoner named Red who changes his life, in Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption.

Although it was first mentioned in The Body and The Running Man, It was really the first Derry novel (and the first time that the underlying evil of Derry was revealed). Stephen King has said that Derry is his portrayal of Bangor, although the 1958 version of Derry in It is more closely modeled after Stratford, CT where King spent most of his childhood.

Castle Rock first appears in the Dead Zone, although the book mostly takes place nearby in Cleaves Mills.

A town in Maine which is home to the gypsum mill where "Sparky" Landon works in Lisey's Story. Fun fact: this is where Stephen King went to high school.

Jessie's childhood vacation home - where she is assaulted by her father - is on Dark Score Lake.

The Territories are a strange fantasy land which is set in a universe parallel to that of Jack Sawyer's America.

Stu Redman, one of the central characters of the stand, was born and raised in Arnette.

Sara Laughs is a vacation home on Dark Score Lake. It appears to be an alternate reality version of Cara Laughs, a vacation home in the key world of the Dark Tower.

Haven has been described as "a longtime refuge for people that are afflicted with a remarkable range of supernatural powers." People with supernatural abilities have migrated to Haven for generations because it mutes their powers, allowing them to lead normal lives.

Ullman tells Jack that the closest town to the Overlook Hotel is Sidewinder, forty miles east.