Good place to scare people from

Stephen King’s rather spooking-looking house in Bangor, Maine, one of many mansions built in the city during Bangor’s 19th Century heyday as a lumber center

“I think one of the reasons that Stephen King’s stories work so well is that he places his stories in spooky old New England, where a lot of American folk legends come from.’’

— Ted Naifeh, American comic-book author and illustrator

Paul Bunyan statue in Bangor