UPDATE 9/12: This story has been updated to include references and spoilers for Episode 1.10 - "Romans."

Castle Rock isn't the first TV series based on a Stephen King story, but it's certainly the first TV series based on all of them. The new show, which airs Wednesdays on Hulu, takes place in the fictional Maine community of Castle Rock, where many of King's most horrifying stories took place, and where all of them seem to intersect.

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Castle Rock

The Castle Rock Cast

Shawshank Prison

Warden Samuel Norton (Episode 1.01 “Severance”)

Alan Pangborn

Bangor, Maine (Episode 1.01 “Severance”)

Mr. Jingles (Episode 1.01 “Severance”)

January 19, 1991 (Episode 1.01 “Severance”)

The Castle Rock Title Sequence

Remember the Dog? (1.02 - "Habeas Corpus")

The Strangler? (1.02 - "Habeas Corpus")

The Body (1.02 - "Habeas Corpus")

IT's in the Bathtub (1.02 - "Habeas Corpus")

Newspaper Clippings of the Damned (1.02 - "Habeas Corpus")

Jackie Torrance (1.02 - "Habeas Corpus")

The Mellow Tiger Bar (1.02 - "Habeas Corpus")

Molly's Shining (1.02 - "Habeas Corpus")

The Anti-Green Mile (1.02 - "Habeas Corpus")

Nan's Luncheonette (1.02 - "Habeas Corpus")

Ruth Deaver's Zombie Dog Anxiety (1.02 - "Habeas Corpus")

Molly's Nightmare (Episode 1.03 - "Local Color")

Molly's Gazebo (Episode 1.03 - "Local Color")

Schmall's Woolen Mill, Co. (Episode 1.03 - "Local Color")

The Ramones (Episode 1.03 - "Local Color")

Children of the Quasi-Corn (Episode 1.03 - "Local Color")

Moon Pies (Episode 1.03 - "Local Color")

Molly's Wendy Torrance Moment (Episode 1.03 - "Local Color")

Sissy Spacek Talks Gutting Pigs (Episode 1.04 - "The Box")

The Desjardins House (Episode 1.04 - "The Box")

Molly's House (Episode 1.04 - "The Box")

Kennebec Memorial Cemetery (Episode 1.04 - "The Box")

Smiley Faces (Episode 1.04 - "The Box")

Castle View (Episode 1.05 - "Harvest")

Lou Hadley (Episode 1.05 - "Harvest")

Warden Lacy's Dreams (Episode 1.05 - "Harvest")

The Red and the White (Episode 1.05 - "Harvest")

Gordie (Episode 1.05 - "Harvest")

Juniper Hill (Episode 1.05 - "Harvest")

WKIT (Episode 1.05 - "Harvest")

Ringing Ears (Episode 1.06 - "Filter")

Alan Pangborn Sells His Soul (Episode 1.06 - "Filter")

27 Years (Episode 1.06 - "Filter")

Chosen Jacobs (Episode 1.06 - "Filter")

The Lawnmower Man (Episode 1.06 - "Filter")

The Sparrows Are Flying Again (Episode 1.06 - "Filter")

The Schisma (Episode 1.06 - "Filter")

Gerald's Game (Episode 1.07 - "The Queen")

Mile 81 (Episode 1.07 - "The Queen")

Hansel and Gretel (Episode 1.07 - "The Queen")

Chester's Mill (Episode 1.07 - "The Queen")

The Crimson King (Episode 1.07 - "The Queen")

Jackie Torrance Knows Her Axes (Episode 1.08 "Past Perfect")

The BTK Killer (Episode 1.08 "Past Perfect")

Twinners (Episode 1.09 "Henry Deaver")

Main Street Easter Egg-Palooza (Episode 1.09 "Henry Deaver")

Harmony Hill Cemetery (Episode 1.10 "Romans")

Wilma Jerzyck (Episode 1.10 "Romans")

The Florida Keys (Episode 1.10 "Romans")

The Future of Jackie Torrance (Episode 1.10 "Romans")

Although Castle Rock tells an original story, the series is full of direct and indirect references to Stephen King's other stories, films, and even his real life. And while you can certainly enjoy the series without catching all of these Easter Eggs, it's a heck of a lot more fun to find those shout-outs while you're also enjoying the new plot and characters.Join us as we highlight all the references we've found (so far) in Castle Rock, and come back every week as we update our list of geeky Stephen King Easter Eggs!No discussion of the Stephen King references in Castle Rock can begin without addressing Castle Rock itself. The fictional community has been a lynchpin of King's work, connecting multiple stories and serving as the primary location for the classics Needful Things, Cujo, The Dead Zone, The Dark Half and The Body (better known to movie fans as Stand By Me).Many of the cast members of Castle Rock are Stephen King veterans. Sissy Spacek earned an Oscar nomination for her role as the psychic teenager Carrie White in Brian De Palma's Carrie. Bill Skarsgard recently terrified audiences as the demonic clown Pennywise in Andy Muschietti's It. Melanie Lynskey co-starred in the TV mini-series Rose Red, Terry O'Quinn co-starred in the werewolf film Silver Bullet, Frances Conroy co-starred in the TV adaptation of The Mist, and Ann Cusack appeared in Mr. Mercedes.A vastly corrupt institution that nevertheless employs a sizable amount of the Castle Rock population. Decades ago a wrongly convicted man named Andy Dufresne escaped Shawshank's clutches in the Oscar-nominated classic The Shawshank Redemption.The corrupt warden of Shawshank Prison, who kept Andy Dufresne wrongfully imprisoned, took his own life in his office. According to the staff, you can still see the bullet hole.Sheriff Alan Pangborn may be retired now, but that's after a lifetime of service to Castle Rock, fending off homicidal maniacs in The Dark Half and the devil himself, more or less, in Needful Things.Alan Pangborn tells Henry Deaver his father's corpse has been moved outside an airport in Bangor, the town Stephen King calls home in real life. It's also probably the same airport where a group of chronally-displaced airline passengers escaped the time-eating Langoliers.When The Kid sees a mouse squeaking along in Shawshank, the mouse doesn't get resurrected. It dies. Badly. Which sets this story up as the "Anti-Green Mile," a concept which will be elaborated on later.Stephen King uses the number "19" repeatedly in his works, most prominently in the Dark Tower stories but also in stories like The Shining (Room 217, i.e. Room 2+17=19) and the TV series Kingdom Hospital, where the ambulance was "Unit 19." So it's certainly no coincidence that Henry Deaver went missing on 1/9/1991, as we see on his missing posters. (Thanks to commenter "smebster" for catching this reference!)It's unclear how many of the references in the Castle Rock title sequence are important to the events of the series, but they seem to reach far and wide, painting a picture of horror that stretches across Maine, and through such Stephen King stories as The Thing, It and The Green Mile.Warden Lacy tells the horrifying history of Castle Rock in short snippets, inviting us all to "remember the dog," referring to the terrifying and rabid St. Bernard named Cujo, who trapped a woman and her son in a car in one of Stephen King's most terrifying stories (and who might, according to the book, be possessed by The Bangor Strangler).Warden Lacy also invites the audience to remember "The Strangler," referring to the Bangor Strangler, a.k.a. Frank Dodd, who has been dead for many years but who will be important later. (Read on...)"It was the fall after they found the body by the railroad tracks," Warden Lacy remembers, referring to the events of Stephen King's short story The Body, which was later adapted into the Oscar-nominated drama Stand By Me.Warden Lacy's voice-over describes the scene of various untimely deaths in his own home, one of which looks suspiciously like the tragic suicide from Stephen King's It.Henry Deaver finds in Warden Lacy's desk a ream of newspaper clippings, referring to the mad dog attack in Cujo and the mysterious disappearance of curio salesman Leland Gaunt, the satanic villain of Needful Things.Jack Torrance was an alcoholic writer who tried to murder his family at an isolated hotel in The Shining. Jackie Torrance is a Castle Rock local who works for Molly Strand and who, we later learn, changed her name to Jackie to honor the disgraced uncle the rest of her family never talks about.The tavern, bowling alley and restaurant is a popular hangout for the characters in Castle Rock, and it has an impressive history in King's stories, most notably as the site of a grisly murder in Needful Things.Molly Strand explains to her sister that she has a mental condition that more-or-less gives her psychic powers, a plot point that Stephen King has used in many stories, most notably in The Shining.The mysterious Kid has the power to touch someone and fill their body with malignant, fast-growing cancer. This makes him essentially the opposite of The Green Mile's saintly prison inmate John Coffey, who would give healing life with his touch instead painful death.The Mellow Tiger Bar is the last place in Castle Rock you can get a hamburger now that Nan's Luncheonette closed down. Stephen King fans who recognize the restaurant from stories like Needful Things and The Dark Half may be disappointed to learn that the owner was forced to turn the establishment into a "f*** club" when business took a turn for the worse.Ruth Deaver's mind is deteriorating, and she's begun to feed dogs in the neighborhood which are long dead. To prove they aren't coming back to life she asks Alan Pangborn to dig up the stray dog she's been seeing, a distinct parallel to King's undead animal story Pet Sematary.Molly's guilt-driven nightmare about being in a malevolent mass where everyone looks like her victims is eerily similar to the priest's nightmare in Silver Bullet, the 1995 adaptation of Stephen King's Cycle of the Werewolf. Except the priest's nightmare had werewolves in it.The psychic Molly seems particularly keen on building a new gazebo in the renovated Castle Rock. This might have something to do with the fact that she's a psychic who lives in the house of a serial killer who left his most notorious victim in a gazebo, but then again, it might not.Molly's place of business is an old textile mill, but she should probably call an exterminator. Stephen King set his rat monster short story Graveyard Shift in a suspiciously similar location.Molly's childhood bedroom is adorned with a poster of The Ramones, a band Stephen King famously is a fan of, and a band which eventually contributed the rockin' theme song to the feature film version of Pet Sematary.Molly's journey to buy drugs takes an unexpected turn when she encounters cult like, mask-clad children in the midst of a ritualistic (but seemingly playful) trial. Although the scene does not specifically reference Children of the Corn, it does appear to be an intentional homage.Warden Lacy's last meal before his suicide consisted of Moon Pies, an unusual snack for a prison employee to be a fan of in the Stephen King universe, since the snack's last appearance - in The Green Mile - was part of a disgusting prank.When attacked by a malevolent presence in her house, Molly finds herself backing into a bathroom with only a kitchen knife to protect her, a fate which also befell Wendy Torrance in The Shining.Sissy Spacek's breakout role was in the first Stephen King adaptation, Carrie, in which she was doused in pig's blood collected by teenagers who killed pigs. So hearing her give a monologue about the suspicious folks of Castle Rock, including a woman accused of Satanism for gutting her own pigs, is probably an intentional reference.Henry Deaver's investigation leads him to the seemingly abandoned home of Vincent Desjardins, who may or may not have had something to do with his childhood disappearance. It doesn't seem out of character for Desjardins, who was previously introduced as one of the violent bullies in King's The Body, which was later adapted into the film Stand By Me.Molly Bloom's house isn't just any old building. It used to belong to The Bangor Strangler, Frank Dodd, who was brought to justice by a psychic named Johnny Smith in The Dead Zone.Henry Deaver's father's body wasn't just moved, it was moved to Kennebec Memorial Cemetery, a reference to the Kennebec Fruit Company (a.k.a. The Moxie Store), which Stephen King frequented as a teen and which eventually ended up in King's 11/22/63.Before he shoots up Shawshank Prison, Dennis Zalewski takes a fellow guard's advice about smiling more, by drawing smiley faces on the security screens. Smiley faces have a history of malevolence in King's work, and are famously featured on the lapel of the demonic Randall Flagg in The Stand.Although we haven't seen it (yet), the town of Castle View is mentioned by radio hosts as one of the areas affected by the mysterious wildfire on the outskirts of Castle Rock. Stephen King fans may recognize the location from such stories as A Good Marriage, Needful Things, The Body, Lisey's Story and The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.The Kid is about to be released into Castle Rock, but first he receives helpful advice about re-assimilating into society by a video with a friendly host named Lou Hadley. The last Hadley who worked at Shawshank, Byron Hadley, was a notoriously abusive guard who was arrested for killing a key witness in the Andy Dufresne case, so this new generation seems to be an improvement!Warden Lacy tells The Kid that God set his path before him in a series of dreams. Prophetic dreams are familiar territory to Stephen King fans, especially in his apocalyptic classic The Stand, in which the survivors of a plague receive messages in their dreams to guide them.When Henry and The Kid are at the hospital, being inspected for mental infirmities, they are each asked to repeat a series of words to test their memories. Henry is asked to repeat "Boat, Family, Church, Dog, White" and The Kid is asked to repeat "Face, Velvet, Church, Family, Red." These words are probably no coincidence. "Church" and "Family" imply a connection between the characters through Henry's adopted father (maybe The Kid is a relative), but the colors are significant to King fans too. In The Dark Tower, "Red" is a color ascribed to malevolent characters (like Walter, or The Kid), and "White" is ascribed to heroes (like Roland, or Henry). (Thanks to commenter "deckpunk" for catching this reference!)The Kid pays a nightmarish visit to a family celebrating a child's birthday, and before everything goes horribly wrong, we learn that the child's name is Gordie and that he got a baseball glove as a present. This is probably a reference to The Body, and in particular the adaptation Stand By Me, in which the protagonist Gordie LaChance is clearly a Yankees fan. (Thanks to commenter "dkasallis" for catching this reference!)If Henry Deaver can't take care of The Kid, he may have be institutionalized at Juniper Hill, the same asylum where characters from It and Gerald's Game were committed.Jackie and The Kid get high while listening to the rock station 100.3, which hardcore Stephen King fans will recognize as the real-life Maine radio station WKIT, which is owned by King himself!Henry Deavers's ears are ringing, and who could blame them? He was just in a shootout, and he says he's also had tinnitus since he was a kid. But now it seems as though his ringing ears are an important plot point, so - in a show with several references to real-life Stephen King, not just his work - it's probably not a coincidence that Stephen King had chronic ear infections as a child. In his non-fiction book On Writing, he described his protracted terror at repeatedly getting his ears lanced, and the "pain beyond the world" that followed.Alan Pangborn was about to kill The Kid when he was made an offer too tempting to resist, a cure for the woman he loves. He took the offer and by the end of the episode, it appears that he made a terrible mistake. It's an unexpected reversal for Pangborn, who previously matched wits with the devil (of sorts) in Needful Things, and saved the day by resisting the demon's temptations.Have you noticed that the majority of the flashbacks in Castle Rock take place in 1991? And that the rest of the series takes place in 2018? Subtract one from the other and you get 27, the same number of years that always pass between the appearance of It, the fear monster at the heart of King's terrifying bestseller. So if 27 years have passed, and Bill Skarsgard is back, and Bill Skarsgard played Pennywise... maybe, in a strange way, he's playing the same role now? (Thanks to commenter "LadyErica" for catching this reference!)Henry's mildly estranged son Wendell finally makes an appearance in the sixth episode, and fittingly enough he's played by Chosen Jacobs, the same actor who played Mike in 2017's IT: Chapter One, who joins his IT co-star Bill Skarsgard in Castle Rock.Henry tries to connect with his son by talking about his virtual reality video game, but virtual reality is passé, and this Stephen King story wants none of it. The conversation certainly sounds like a swipe at the 1992 sci-fi cyber thriller The Lawnmower Man, which claimed to be a Stephen King adaptation but instead told a wildly different story about a gardener who gains godlike powers by playing virtual reality video games, which were believed to be the trendy future of computer technology at the time. (Stephen King sued to have his name taken off of the picture, and he succeeded.)Birds have been a bad omen in many horror stories, and Stephen King's tales are no exception. When Henry and The Kid go to Juniper Hill they are greeted by an ominous flock of birds, evoking memories of The Dark Half, in which the terrors are preceded with the scrawl, "The Sparrows Are Flying Again."Henry meets Odin and Willie, who tell him all about The Schisma, which causes the ringing in Henry's ears. But what is The Schisma? Odin describes it as an intersection "all possible paths," evoking the legendary Dark Tower, which connects the worlds of Stephen King's stories. (Also, Henry's father allegedly called it "The Voice of God," but which god? Is he referring to the Judeo-Christian deity, or Gan from The Dark Tower?)The episode "The Queen" features multiple explicit references to, or at least major inspirations from the novel Gerald's Game. Both stories are about a woman in danger, who is forced to reexamine her memories in order to save her life, with otherwise limited means at her disposal. Both stories prominently feature stray dogs, expensive cuts of beef, villains from the Juniper Hill asylum, and conversations with a dead husband who berates the hero until she solves her own problems.The radio warns residents of Castle Rock to avoid the Augusta Turnpike. That's pretty good advice, as we learned in Stephen King's story Mile 81, where a mysterious station wagon "eats" visitors at a rest area along that road.Ruth reads Hansel and Gretel to Henry in one of her memories, a story that Stephen King has come back to multiple times. In his introduction to an uncut version of The Stand, the author summarized the fairy tale to illustrate how the plot of a story is nowhere near as important as how it's told, and in his classic novel IT, Beverly's fear of the book leads to a frightening confrontation with her wicked neighbor.To protect her grandson, Wendell, Ruth sends him out to go shopping at the mall in Chester's Mill. Stephen King fans will no doubt recognize Chester's Mill as the town which gets shut off from the outside world in Under the Dome, a novel which became a television series on CBS.Red and white imagery has been pervasive throughout the series, from Ruth's pills to the repeated words at the doctor's office. But they burst right into the foreground in "The Queen." Ruth's red and white chess pieces became a major plot point, with an emphasis on the queen, as well as the kings. White for the power of good (poor Alan), and red for the power of evil, like The Crimson King, the villain of Stephen King's Dark Tower stories.We already know that Jackie Torrance is related to the murderous Jack Torrance, from Stephen King's The Shining. So it's morbidly hilarious when she enters the dwelling of two killers and teaches them a thing or two about axes.The new proprietor of the Castle Rock Historic Bed and Breakfast wrote a scholarly work on the BTK Killer, a real-life serial killer who also served as the inspiration for Stephen King's A Good Marriage, about a woman who discovers that her husband has deadly secrets. It's a storyline that is evoked, somewhat, by the tragic events that follow in this episode.The ninth episode of Castle Rock introduces the audience to an alternate reality where doppelgängers of several characters exist in somewhat and, in some cases, very different circumstances. It's a concept that will be familiar to King readers, who have already run into these "twinners," as King calls them, in stories like The Dark Tower.The production designers outdid themselves in this episode. When the "real" Henry Deaver travels back to Castle Rock, he finds a series of shops featuring references to various Stephen King stories. "Claiborne Creamery" is shout out to the novel and film Dolores Claiborne, "Sheldon Stationery" refers to to Paul Sheldon, the author who was kidnapped in Misery (and who was admittedly rather picky about his stationery). Also pictured are "Thibodeaux Pie Bakers," which is probably a reference to the Thibodeau family in Under the Dome (and possibly to the notorious pie scene in Thinner), and the "Galorium Emporium," a junk shop where a haunted camera was purchased in the short story "The Sun Dog." Even the park has a sign with "19," a mystical number in King's stories, written on it twice!"Henry Deaver" tells Henry Deaver to meet him at the Harmony Hill Cemetery, which should be familiar to Stephen King fans, as the cemetery from his popular vampire story Salem's Lot. It's fitting, since vampires often leave their grave, and "Henry Deaver" visits his own gravesite at Harmony Hill. (Bonus reference: The cemetery was established in 1919, two more of King's magic numbers!)Now that Henry Deaver has settled into a cozy job as a local lawyer, he's getting involved in a straightforward property dispute involving Wilma Jerzyck, who previously appeared in King's novel Needful Things, as well as the movie adaptation. Wilma doesn't take feuds lightly, which led to some pretty horrific events in Needful Things after one of them escalated, so Henry should probably find a way to settle this case quickly.In the epilogue, Molly Strand has moved out of the horrifying town of Castle Rock, and set up shop in the sunny Florida Keys. Unfortunately for Molly, the Keys are also a hotbed for horror in Stephen King's stories. Some terribly unpleasant things happened in the Florida Keys in "Duma Key" and "The Gingerbread Girl."The first season of "Castle Rock" concludes with several references to The Shining, as Jackie Torrance - now an author - writes about her own experience with ax murder, in a book called "Overlooked," and reveals that she plans to visit the Overlook Hotel to finish her opus. The song that plays right afterwards, in a playful bit of foreshadowing, is Dusty Springfield's "24 Hours from Tulsa," which is all about a woman who goes to a hotel and never comes home. (Bonus Reference: Stephen King's radio station, 100.3, gets a shoutout in a sticker on Jackie's laptop!)

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New episodes of Castle Rock debut Wednesdays on Hulu. For a deeper dive into the twisted world of the show, check out our interactive map of Castle Rock , and if you notice any Easter eggs we missed, share your favorites in the comments below. Come back next week to discover what we found in the most recent episode.