Stories such as “The Body” and “The Sun Dog,” as well as novels Needful Things and The Dark Half, fully explored Castle Rock’s darkest corners and most cursed residents.
While Castle Rock has appeared in several of Stephen King’s more current works such as 2014’s Revival and the novella A Good Marriage, among many more, the town’s heyday came during King’s prolific period through the 1980s and early 1990s.
(Such as Desperation, Nevada.)
So for Sam Shaw and Dustin Thomason, the draw for this new project was digging into how the town managed to survive into the modern day, and the kind of people that have kept it from becoming a full-on ghost town.