American literature, charted in one monumental map
BigThink · 24 Jul 2026

American literature, charted in one monumental map

The second map ever featured on Strange Maps — back in 2006, when it was still a fledgling WordPress blog — was a literary take on Maine. It showed the real and imagined places that tether Stephen King’s horror stories to the rugged landscape of his home state. On the map, fictional towns like Derry


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