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Stephen King's backyard of foggy coves, lighthouse ghosts and small-town dread. Maine pairs coastal quiet with some of horror's most famous addresses.
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Browse 200 books, 89 movies, 19 TV shows and 17 games set in Maine.

The Shawshank Redemption
Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his…

It
In a small town in Maine seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.

The Iron Giant
In the small town of Rockwell Maine in October 1957 a giant metal machine befriends a nine-year-old boy and ultimately finds its humanity by unselfishly saving people from their own fears and prejudices.

The Reckoning
Chloe Saunders is fifteen and would love to be normal. Unfortunately, Chloe happens to be a genetically engineered necromancer who can raise the dead without even trying. She and her equally gifted (or should that be…

It Chapter Two
27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise the former members of the Losers' Club who have grown up and moved away from Derry are brought back together by a devastating phone call.

Silent Hill 2
The second entry in the Silent Hill franchise, Silent Hill 2 is a narrative-focused third-person psychological horror game with exploration and puzzle-solving elements which follows James Sunderland, a man who receives…

Carrie
Carrie White a shy and troubled teenage girl who is tormented by her high school peers and her fanatically religious mother begins to use her powers of telekinesis to exact revenge upon them.

The Mist
After a violent storm a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals…

Pet Sematary
Dr. Louis Creed's family moves into the country house of their dreams and discover a pet cemetery at the back of their property. The cursed burial ground deep in the woods brings the dead back to life -- with "minor"…

Casper
Casper is a kind young ghost who peacefully haunts a mansion in Maine. When specialist James Harvey arrives to communicate with Casper and his fellow spirits he brings along his teenage daughter Kat. Casper quickly…
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