an extenstion of an American Gods thread... i've probably done this before, but what the hell...

Stephen King admits that part of Castle Rock is his boyhood home of Stratford, CT... i've been to the junkyard there, and various other bits, since i too spent my childhood there

went to university in Lovecraft Country... seen most of the real towns he mentions... also visited Sleepy Hollow, which is a real place

in Hellboy, there's a Bureau of Paranormal Research headquarters in Fairfield, CT... an unassuming suburb that happens to be where i spent most of my life

so yeah... CT is filled with horror and evil!

I've already mentioned having been to a new years eve party that shows up in a novel.... with me and my friends being ridiculed by the author.

Also I live in a street close to where Danish comic book legend Claus Deleuran grew up.... and his detective team Pirelli & Firestone had their office very close to my home - you can see what my neighbourhood looked like in the seventies outside the window on this comic book cover:

ANd not quite a place, except maybe in a metaphorical way....

...but the strangest coincidence EVER while reading a novel: I was reading an acclaimed Danish mainstream novel - not a rock n roll or punk novel or anything like that - while lying on my bed and listening to The Jesus & Mary Chain's album "Honey's Dead"... and suddenly one of the characters in the novel - a young guy - lies down on his bed and starts listening to "Honey's Dead".... Really spooky!

weird...

not quite as spooky, but i read 'The Body'(the Stephen King story that inspired 'stand by me') right after buying 'Badlands', the Springsteen album a character in the story discusses at lenght

but your story is much cooler

I've been to a bunch of places where Stephen King's books happen (or mention.)

There's a book called Name All The Animals (can't remember the author) that takes place near where I went to college. They actually mention my college, and the high school my father went to by name. That was a little creepy. The school that the protagonist goes to is the school we used to have my dance recitals at when I was little.

The Stepford Wives movie (and presumably the book) takes place in Westport, CT... right next to my former hometown and former hometown of Martha Stewart

Maurice Gee's Under the mountain, takes place in auckland, and the kids and monsters use the old WW2 bunkers and Tunnels and the lava caves on rangitoto island. I remember thinking it was cool that i had played in those places so much. But thats a kids novel haven't read it for years, so nothing recently.

I've been in a lot of places, so there's probably quite a few... the main one that comes to mind though is a novel I read a few years back, (and not a bad one either), called Motherless Brooklyn, which takes place in the neighborhood in Brooklyn that I'm originally from.

Stephen King in general for me too, simply because I grew up close to where he lives

umm...Margaret Lawrence wrote her stories all about Huron Country, so many places where he short stories take place....

and Nel and I are going to the House on the Rock! w00t!

Um... most of the accessible/Londond Above places in Neverwhere (combination of where family live and deliberatly going there)

Anywhere in any book set in Belfast pretty much. (I get lost easily. Belfast is very small)

Anywhere in any book set in or around the Mourne Mountains.

When I was in San Francisco a few years ago I got a picture of the sign for Waverly St, the road for which a character in The Joy Luck Club was named. It's really more of an alley and I wouldn't have noticed it except that one of my parents' friends lived there.

I've been to Savannah, setting of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Been to Clary's and stayed in the hotel across the street from Lady Chablis's club. This is probably a claim better made by GIR, though.

I've lived in San Diego; Santa Cruz; Watsonville; Portland, Orgeon; Vancouver, Washington; and Seatlle, Washington, as well as been to Salem, San Fransico, and Sacremento. All of them have appeared in some book or another that I've read ^__^ As well as my current location, but I'm not to comfy giving that up over the net.

i just finished "the cutting room" by louise welsh, it's a kind of gritty crime novel set in glasgow. i enjoyed it, she made it seem like a pretty dark and grim place... not much artistic license taken there really, but i found it interesting seeing the place i've lived all my life, and loved and hated as the mood takes me, depicted in all the seedy underworld glory that the author could summon up. following the characters' progress and wondering if that crime king-pin really stayed on a street i used to walk down every day... and trying to figure out if the descriptions were really evocative or if i was just filling in the gaps myself.

Well, Ashdod, which is mentioned in "the deeper meaning of Liff." Bunch of places that appear in the old testament... does being in modern-day athens count for anything? We never went to the parthenon or anything, we went to a basketball game.

I've been to cawdor castle (Macbeths ancestral home) They had a trapdoor leading to a dungeon cell.

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Originally posted by FatPigeon:
... does being in modern-day athens count for anything? We never went to the parthenon or anything, we went to a basketball game.

No. That doesn't count.

Ive been to a couple of places in Slovakia mentioned in books by Slovakian authors, but not sure if anybody would know either the authors or the places:-)
And besides that Ive also been to Savannah, In the Tranyslvanian mountains, although just for a while...

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Originally posted by aitapata:

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Originally posted by FatPigeon:
... does being in modern-day athens count for anything? We never went to the parthenon or anything, we went to a basketball game.

No. That doesn't count.

Yeah, didn't think so.