I think it's pretty arguable that at least most of Stephen King's books are in the same (or a similar) universe, yeah, considering how often the same fictional New England towns get mentioned in them. The Shop exists in The Tommyknockers; Johnny Smith is also mentioned as a real person in that novel. You have to hop a bit more for Carrie, but a minor character from Carrie appears in The Body which is set in Castle Rock, and from there, you can get to almost anywhere.
Also would you believe that I completely forgot you were Charlie, and thus the whole conversation with Door was fraught with me going 'is this a new player who will be ded-of-infodump if I mention in the narrative that the 'building with no doors' thing is ironic given Door's family home is also one?
Yup! And there's even a bit in Firestarter where Charlie's father is having a fairly psychic dream, and it's vague but entirely possible he sees Carrie and what's going on with her in that vision. So yaaay for internal consistency on the novels.
*laughing a whole lot at beginning-of-term confusion*
Oh, totally. Derry was a naaaasty place. And I think there's refences to Salem of Salem's Lot in a one of the other books. The Stephen King 'verse is a scaaary verse.
And now I want to go read the books again, just to scour for references to other books inside them.
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Yeah, yeah.
Not smarter than:
*long list of geniuses from other fandoms who can out-think her when they don't lose their tempers like she does*
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Also would you believe that I completely forgot you were Charlie, and thus the whole conversation with Door was fraught with me going 'is this a new player who will be ded-of-infodump if I mention in the narrative that the 'building with no doors' thing is ironic given Door's family home is also one?
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*laughing a whole lot at beginning-of-term confusion*
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And now I want to go read the books again, just to scour for references to other books inside them.
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