It Grows on You
[1] The story recounts bizarre and inexplicable events that have taken place in a notorious house in the town of Castle Rock, Maine.The new wings added seem to be connected to the deaths of men who, as boys, were sexually abused by the house owner's wife.It was influenced by Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, Thornton Wilder's Our Town, and the works of Davis Grubb such as "Where the Woodbine Twineth".King sought to "capture that world of dirt roads, abandoned houses, and general stores full of old men, old baked bean supper posters, and old flypaper" and to depict "...a house that would grow every time some old campaigner in the town kicked the bucket [...] a kind of rambling New England memorial that was half-crypt, half living organism.[1][3] In the notes to Nightmares & Dreamscapes, King suggested that "It Grows on You" could serve as a sequel to his 1991 work Needful Things, which is also set in Castle Rock.