Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished - Revised & Expanded Edition (6 page)

The Blue Air Compressor
Shore Road

The Body
Castle Rock

But Only Darkness Loves Me
Ledge Cove

Carrie
Chamberlain

Chinga
(Unnamed Town)

The Colorado Kid
Moose-Lookit Island

Comb Dump
Augusta

Cujo
and its Unproduced Castle Rock

Screenplay

Cycle of the Werewolf
Tarker’s Mills

The Dark Half
Castle Rock/Ludlow

The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the
Jerusalem’s Lot/East Stoneham

Calla

The Dark Tower VI: Song of
East Stoneham/Bridgton

Susannah

The Dark Tower VII: The Dark
East Stoneham/Lovell

Tower

The Dead Zone
and its Unproduced Castle Rock/Cleaves Mills/Pownal

Screenplay

Do the Dead Sing?
Goat Island

Dolores Claiborne
Little Tall Island

Dreamcatcher
The Jefferson Tract/Derry

The Fifth Quarter
Carmen’s Folly

Gerald’s Game
Kashwakamak Lake/Dark Score Lake

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
The Backwoods

Gramma
Castle View

Graveyard Shift
Gates Falls

Gray Matter
Near Bangor

Hearts in Atlantis
The University of Maine

Home Delivery
Gennesault Island

I Know What You Need
(Various)

Insomnia
Derry

It
Derry

It Grows on You
(
Marshroots
/

Weird Tales
and
Whispers
versions) Harlow

It Grows on You
(
Nightmares &

Dreamscapes
version) Castle Rock

Jerusalem’s Lot
Jerusalem’s Lot

Kingdom Hospital
Lewiston

The King Family and the Wicked

Witch
Bridgton

The Langoliers
Bangor

The Leprechaun
(Owen King’s home)

The Lonesome Death of Jordy

Verrill
Near Castle Rock

The Long Walk
(On the Road)

The Man in the Black Suit
Castle Stream/Motton

The Mist
Bridgton

Molly
Ammas Beach

The Monkey
Casco

The Monster in the Closet
(Tad Trenton’s bedroom)

Movie Show
Harlow/Lewiston

Mrs. Todd’s Shortcut
Castle Rock and roads to Bangor

Needful Things
Castle Rock

Night Shift
(Unproduced Screenplay) Weathersfield

Nona
(
Shadows
) Blainesville

Nona
(
Skeleton Crew
) Castle Rock

One for the Road
Falmouth, near Jerusalem’s Lot

Pet Sematary
Ludlow

Premium Harmony
Castle Rock

Rage
Placerville

Rainy Season
Willow

The Reach
Goat Island

The Revelations of ‘Becka Paulson
Haven

The Revenge of Lardass Hogan
Gates Falls

Riding the Bullet
Gates Falls/Harlow

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank

Redemption
Shawshank Prison

The Road Virus Heads North
Wells/Derry

‘Salem’s Lot
Jerusalem’s Lot

Secret Window, Secret Garden
Derry/Tashmore Glen

Silver Bullet
Tarker’s Mills

Squad D
Castle Rock

Storm of the Century
Little Tall Island

Strawberry Spring
(
Ubris
version) Wiscassett College

Stud City
Auburn/Lewiston

Suffer the Little Children

(
Nightmares & Dreamscapes

version)
Summer Street School

The Sun Dog
Castle Rock

Sword in the Darkness
Gates Falls

Thinner
Bangor/Boothbay Harbor

The Tommyknockers
Haven

Uncle Otto’s Truck
Castle Rock

Under the Dome
Chester’s Mill

Untitled (
The Huffman Story
) Huffman

Untitled Screenplay (Radio Station) WOKY, Western Maine

The Woman in the Room
Central Maine Hospital

The Stand

Stories in The Stand Reality relate to the fundamental change to our world following a devastating superflu epidemic. As many Maine Street Horror, America Under Siege and even Dark Tower events in our world occur after the varying superflu strike dates (1980 in the original version; 1985 in certain paperback editions of the original version and King’s unproduced movie script; or 1990 in the
Complete and Uncut
version) it follows that The Stand Reality is in fact an alternate reality/timeline to that in which we exist.

Apart from the variations of
The Stand
itself, the
Night Surf
stories are part of this Reality, linked as they are by the same epidemic, Captain Trips. In
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
Roland and his ka-tet (King defines this term as, “those bound by destiny”
¹²
), along with Flagg, briefly visit another world, strangely like ours but clearly
not
our reality, which has also been devastated by Captain Trips.

The Stand Reality crosses America with large cities (New York) and small towns (Ogunquit, Arnette, Stovington, May, Pratt, Hemingford Home, Woodsville) equally devastated. Survivors are drawn to the “dark side” (if readers will excuse the reference to a very different mythology) in Las Vegas or to the side (literally) of a religious, old black woman in Boulder.

One hopes King will one day revisit this Reality, if for no reason other than to bring Constant Readers up-to-date with the doings in Maine of our friends, Stu Redman and Fran Goldsmith and their son, Peter.

The following is a full list of the works that fall within The Stand Reality. The list includes unpublished works.

Primary Setting:

Night Surf

The Stand
(Original, Uncut, Unproduced Movie Screenplay and Mini-Series Screenplay)

Secondary Setting:

The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass

America Under Siege

Unfortunately, living outside the state of Maine is not enough for characters to avoid the depredations of King and his fertile imagination. King stories are in fact set all over America and also, rarely, in overseas locations (for instance, England in the case of
Crouch End
and
Wimsey
; an unnamed South American country for
In the Deathroom
; and a deserted island, possibly in the Caribbean, for
Survivor Type
). Perhaps the most significant overseas country for both setting and impact upon characters and events is Vietnam (see in particular the latter four stories in the
Hearts in Atlantis
collection;
Squad D
,
Autopsy Room Four
,
The Old Dude’s Ticker
,
Children of the Corn
,
The Dead Zone
,
The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
,
Desperation
,
Firestarter
, and
‘Salem’s Lot
).

The America Under Siege rReality works are linked by their common location in our world’s version of the United States (or with US citizens as characters) and in our “normal” timeline. When a story deviates into a timeline in which the world as we know it fundamentally changes (for instance,
The Stand
or
The End of the Whole Mess
) it is classified in a more relevant Reality.

Many America Under Siege Rreality stories are very much from the mainstream (
All That You Love Will Be Carried Away
,
Rest Stop
or
That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French
) and include many of King’s rare but powerful crime genre stories.

New York, a large and often faceless city is cover for mayhem (
The Ten O’Clock People
,
Lunch at the Gotham Café
), mystery (
The Breathing Method
,
The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands
), murder (
The Man Who Loved Flowers
,
The Plant
,
Sneakers
), penance (
Blind Willie
) and, rarely, positive results (
Dedication
).

Large cities such as Boston (
Cell
), Los Angeles (
The Talisman
), Las Vegas (
Dolan’s Cadillac
), Seattle (
Rose Red
) and even imaginary urban areas such as Harding (
The Running Man
and
Sword in the Darkness
) play host to King stories.

But it is small-towns and semi-rural locations that most quickly come to mind when considering King’s assault on America through supernatural means (
Children of the Corn
) or the simple horrors of everyday life (
All That You Love Will Be Carried Away
). Isolated towns and residences such as Gatlin, deep in the cornfields of Nebraska and close to Hemingford Home; or Travis, Indiana (
Sleepwalkers
) serve as wonderful backdrops for the doings of supernatural creatures (
Black House
) or the very human horrors that occur at the Wilkes’ farm (
Misery
).

It is not possible to sit easy while thinking of Junction City, Iowa (
The Library Policeman
and future home of
Needful Things
’ Leland Gaunt); or of Desperation, Nevada. Children should avoid Oatley, New York (
The Talisman
), although Arcadia Beach, New Hampshire might serve for a summer holiday. If seeking to attend a concert one should cross Rock and Roll Heaven, Oregon (
You Know They’ve Got a Hell of a Band
) from any list; and the flashing lights from a particular shed in Statler, Pennsylvania should also be avoided (
From a Buick 8
).