It: Why Derry Is Cursed In Stephen King's Universe

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Many of Stephen King’s stories are set in the fictional town of Derry, in Maine, and due to all the horrible events that have taken place there, Derry is said to be cursed – but what made it into a cursed town? Stephen King has rightfully earned the title of the “King of Horror” thanks to his novels and short stories from this genre, though he has also explored different ones such as drama, sci-fi, and even western. King has also built his own universe and mythology, and there are certain cities and places that have become key in its stories, even becoming characters, as is the case of Derry.

Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine, and he has used Maine as the setting for many of his stories, building fictional towns that fit his vision, such as Castle Rock (or The Rock) and Derry. The latter first appeared in the 1981 short story “The Bird and the Album” and has since been the main setting of some of King’s most famous novels, such as IT and 11/22/63, and it has been mentioned in many others as well as the events that have taken place there, as happened in books like Gerald’s Game, Pet Sematary, Misery, The Body, Lisey’s Story, Under the Dome, and more.

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King has shared that Derry is based in the town of Bangor, Maine, where he and his wife Tabitha now reside. King has even said that he took inspiration from the sewers of Bangor, which were poorly built and extremely difficult to map, which translated into the sewers in Derry where IT used to hide. What also made King use Bangor as inspiration is the town’s history of violence, and one particular case was used as the basis for the murder of Adrian Mellom in IT, one of the most brutal scenes in the