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Stephen King Book Connections - Places Of Interest

 

Below is a list of the places from the various Stephen King books.  The list is alphabetical by place, to make it easier to search.  If a place doesn't have a link in two or more books, it hasn't been included.

 

249B East 35th Street - a men's club Different Seasons (The Breathing Method)

Skeleton Crew (The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands)
Alhambra Hotel The Talisman - the hotel Jack and his mum run to near the beginning of the story

Tommyknockers - Gard wakes up a on beach near the hotel, and meets a young boy named Jack
Arcadia Beach The Talisman - the beach near the Alhambra hotel that Jack and his mum run to near the beginning of the story

Tommyknockers - the beach Gard wakes up on after his drinking binge
Arnette,Texas Desperation - Steve Ames mentioned being here

Skeleton Crew (The Monkey) - Hal Shelburn, owner of the monkey, lived here

The Stand - Charles Campion ran his car into Hapscomb's petrol station here and is where Stu Redman lived

The Tommyknockers
Barrens, The Insomnia - Ralph thinks they belonged to the secret world of children

It - where the Losers played as kids
Big Injun Woods, The It - mentioned in passing

Tommyknockers - a huge expanse of forest in Haven
Black Spot, The Insomnia - Doc Mulhare said "Things have a way of happening here. Remember the fire at the Black Spot?"

It - the Black Spot story is told in detail by Mike Hanlon
Blue Ribbon Laundry Carrie - Carrie's mum works at a Laundry with this name

Night Shift (The Mangler) - the book is set in the Laundry, where the Mangler came to life

Roadwork - Bart Dawes worked in a Blue Ribbon Laundry
Castle Rock, Maine Bag Of Bones - mentioned a few times in passing

Cujo

Four Past Midnight (The Sun Dog)

Four Past Midnight (The Body)

Gerald's Game - a big fire in Castle Rock (probably from Needful Things) is mentioned

It - Beverly mentions the crazy cop who killed all those women here

Needful Things - set here

Nightmares & Dreamscapes (It Grows On You)

Skeleton Crew (Gramma)

Skeleton Crew (Mrs. Todd's Shortcut)

Skeleton Crew (Nona)

Skeleton Crew (Uncle Otto's Truck)

The Dark Half

The Dead Zone - the murders take place here

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon - the family passed here on the way to their hike, before Patricia got lost

The Stand - Fran mentions here in passing

The Tommyknockers
City Of Lud The Dark Tower III - the city where Roland et al meet Blaine the Mono

Rose Madder - Dorcas tells Rosie, "I've seen bodies on fire... along the streets of the City of Lud.".
Dark Score Lake Bag Of Bones - Mike Noonan's summer place, Sarah Laughs, was located here

Gerald's Game - the cottage was located near here
Dark Tower The Dark Tower Series

Hearts In Atlantis (Low Men In Yellow Coats) - Ted Brautigan mentions "until the beams break, the Dark Tower stands"

Insomnia - Clotho tells Ralph to think of life as a kind of building, a skyscraper, but the image Ralph gets of of an enormous tower constructed of dark and sooty stone, standing in a field of red roses

Everything's Eventual (The Little Sisters Of Eluria)

Black House
Daughters And Sisters Refuge Desperation - Cynthia Smith had once stayed here after she was battered by a boyfriend

Rose Madder - Rose stayed here after she left her husband
Derry Home Hospital Insomnia - where Ralph's wife died and where they eventually meet the Little Bald Doctors

It - Mike Hanlon is sent here after being stabbed by Henry Bowers (submitted by Tim Linton)

Tommyknockers - Hilly Brown was taken here after his sled accident
Derry Public Library Insomnia - where Ralph gets stabbed by Charlie Pickering

It - Ben Hanscom's favourite childhood place and where Mike Hanlon works, also where Mike gets stabbed by Henry Bowers
Derry, Maine Bag Of Bones - Mike Noonan lived here Dolores Claiborne - Derry is mentioned near the end of the book

Dreamcatcher - Mr Gray heads here to get to the Derry Stand Pipe, not knowing it was destroyed in the storm of 1985

Gerald's Game - Derry is mentioned in passing near the end of the book

Four Past Midnight (Secret Window, Secret Garden) - Mort and Amy Rainey lived in Derry before their divorce

It - set in Derry

Insomnia - set in Derry

The Storm Of The Century - Cat Withers went here to get her abortion

The Tommyknockers - "Haven Village had begun to grow up along the muddy road leading North toward Derry and Bangor"
Emporium Galorium (Pop Merrill's shop) Cujo

Different Seasons (The Body)

Four Past Midnight (The Sun Dog)

Needful Things

Pet Semetary
Four Father's Bar The Plant - Richard Ginelli owned the bar

Skeleton Crew (The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet)
Gatlin Town It - Ben Hanscom’s directions to the Red Wheel includes a deserted little town called Gatlin

Night Shift (Children of the Corn) - the town where the children worshipped
Haven It - Eddie thinks that Phil Tracker might have died on his way to here

Pet Semetary - Victor Pascow was hit by a car driven by Tremont Withers, age 23, from Haven, Maine

The Tommyknockers - where the ship is
Hemmingford Home It - Ben Hanscom’s adult home was located here

Night Shift (The last rung on the ladder) - Larry and Kitty grew up in Hemingford Home

The Stand - where mother Abigail lived and everyone was heading to after the dreams started
Homeland Cemetery?? The Dark Half - where George Stark was "buried"

Needful Things - Polly Chalmer's parents, Nettie Cobb, and Wilma Jerzyck are all buried here (submitted by Andrew)

The Tommyknockers - Marie Brown invisaged her son Hilly's tombstone here the day she thought he had been hit by a fuel tanker while sledding
Jerusalem's Lot Night Shift (Jerusalem's Lot) - set here

Night Shift (One for the Road)

Pet Semetary - Louis Creed's wife nearly stops off here

Salem's Lot - set here

Storm Of The Century - mentioned in passing

The Dead Zone - Vera Smith's hospital was on the other side of here

The Dark Tower V: Wolves Of The Calla - Father Callahan came from here
Junction City Needful Things - After the fire near the end of the book, it is made mention of a new store opening in Junction City in the former office of Sam Peebles

Four Past Midnight (The Library Policeman) - the whole story of Same Peebles is set in the city
Juniper Hill Asylum Bag Of Bones

Four Past Midnight (The Sun Dog) - mentioned in passing

Gerald's Game - Raymond Joubert spent time in the Asylum

Insomnia - Charlie Pickering spent six months in it

It - Henry Bowers spent most of his life here, after being committed when they thought he was the killer and until he escaped and went back to Derry

Needful Things - Nettie Cobb did time there (submitted by Andrew)

Tommyknockers - when unearthing the spaceship, Bobbi wonders if she might be going crazy, and will end up in the Juniper Hill Asylum
Land Of Delain The Dark Tower Series

Eyes of The Dragon - set in Delain

Everything's Eventual (The Little Sisters Of Eluria) - a drover who falls victim of the Little Sisters was from Delain
Little Tall Island Dolores Claiborne

Nightmares & Dreamscapes (Home Delivery)

Storm Of The Century - takes place here
Ludlow Insomnia - Louis goes of to play cards here

Pet Semetary - the hometown of the Creed family
Mellow Tiger Bag Of Bones

Cujo

The Dark Half

Different Seasons (The Body)

Four Past Midnight (The Sun Dog)

Needful Things - Henry Beaufort's Bar (submitted by Andrew)
Mohonk The Regulators - Audrey Wyler spent a weekend with a friend here

Thinner - Heidi and Billy spent a weekend here
Mount Hope Cemetery It - Georgie Denbrough was buried here after being killed by It

Pet Semetary - Gage Creed was (initially) buried here
Oatley Four Past Midnight (The Sun Dog) - During Kevin's nightmare, he dreams he is a bum in Oatley

The Talisman - Jack worked in the Oatley Tap
Ogunquit It - Eddie mentions it

The Stand
Overlook Hotel Misery - Andrew Pomeroy told Annie Wilkes that he was doing a magazine article on the Overlook Hotel

The Shining - based in the hotel
Red Wheel Bar It - Ben Hanscom's favourite bar

The Stand
Salem's Lot See Jerusalem's Lot
Secondhand Rose, Secondhand Clothes Insomnia - where Ralph first sees the wanted posters for Susan Day

It - where Bill Denborough finds Silver for the second time
Shawshank Prison Bag Of Bones - George Randolph Footman, the Castle County deputy sheriff, ended up in here after shot and killed Mattie Devore

Different Seasons (Rita Hayworth And The Shawshank Redemption)

Different Seasons (The Body) - A man just released from here stabbed Chris Chambers

Dolores Claiborne - Dolores thought she would be sent here if she was found guilty of her husband's murder

Four Past Midnight (The Sun Dog)

It - Eddie Corcoran’s step-father, Richard Macklin, served time here for killing Eddie’s brother Dorsey

Needful Things - Alan Pangborn had put 'Ace' Merril behind bars there for 4 years (submitted by Andrew)
Stovington The Dead Zone - Johnny Smith's private pupil attends a Prep. school here

The Shining - Prep. school where Jack Torrance taught

The Stand - Stu is moved from the plague center in Atlanta to one here
Town Of Gilead The Dark Tower Series

Everything's Eventual (The Little Sisters Of Eluria)
Town Of Mejis The Dark Tower Series

Everything's Eventual (The Little Sisters Of Eluria)
TR90 Bag Of Bones - where Sara Laughs was

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon - mentioned in passing

 

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