There's a pretty decent POD. Instead of being indentured to her parents, to use Six' phrase, she's hired as part of the domestic staff by one of the du Ponts and is able to live in housing on one of those northern Delaware estates. As a kid, Stephen King is able to roam the estate and the back roads of northern New Castle county in the Brandywine, Red Clay Creek and White Clay Creek valleys. He becomes familiar with the once-industrial, now-decayed village of Yorklyn on DE route 82. Yorklyn becomes the prototype for Thanatopia, DE (I just made that up): an out-of-the-way 19th century mill town on the fall line where...strange, shall we say, occurrences happen...