Derry (Stephen King)

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Derry
Stephen King location
The town as pictured in It
First appearance	"The Bird and the Album" (1981)
Created by	Stephen King
Genre	Horror fiction
In-universe information
Type	Town
Location	Maine

Derry is a fictional town in the U.S. state of Maine that has served as the setting for a number of Stephen King's novels, novellas, and short stories, notably It. Derry first appeared in King's 1981 short story "The Bird and the Album" and has reappeared as recently as his 2011 novel 11/22/63.

Derry is said to be near Bangor, but King explicitly told his biographer, Tony Magistrale, that Derry is actually his portrayal of Bangor.^[1] A map on King's official website, though, places Derry in the vicinity of the town of Etna.^[2]

King, a native of Durham, Maine, created a trinity of fictional Maine towns—Derry, Castle Rock and Jerusalem's Lot—as central settings in more than one work.