If you're at all familiar with the wondrously creepy worlds conjured by Stephen King, you know there are literary horrors too numerous to count available forCastle Rock's creative team to borrow from. And setting the series within the town of Castle Rock itself puts pretty much all of them at the fingertips of the show's writing team. If the first two seasons are any indication, Castle Rock's creatives may well try to use the entirety of those twisted tales (and the characters within) in crafting their own.

True to that concept, in its first two seasons, the series has already included elements, narratives, and characters from some of King's best-loved tales, including Rita Hayworth and the ShawshankRedemption,TheBody(akaStand ByMe),Salem's Lot,Misery,Cujo,Needful Things, and more.

Unlike other King adaptations, Castle Rockis not a straight-up re-telling of those stories, and typically uses them as a sort of entry point into the tangled universe of King's books. So far, that tactic has found the series putting wild new spins on familiar tropes, and molding them into a timeline-smashing narrative that's positively overflowing with all manner of King-tinged mirth and menace. That was particularly true of Castle Rock's second season, which found series writers blending a narrative mashup featuring King stalwarts like the Merrill family (The Body) and Annie Wilkes (Misery) with that of the body-snatching beasts first glimpsed inSalem's Lot.

General setting aside, those narratives had never crossed over in the pages of any of King's stories. Interwoven as they are inCastle Rock, those stories bring new depth, and some seriously sinister edginess to King's already unsettling creations, which makes Castle Rock a series at once boldly original, and singularly familiar.

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