Bill Keveney

USA TODAY

Hulu is traveling to the Stephen King universe.

Best-selling novelist King, a master of horror, and prolific producer J.J. Abrams will team on Castle Rock, a psychological-horror series, the streaming service announced Tuesday.

Hulu has ordered a first season of 10 episodes, with production to begin this year. No premiere date was announced.

According to the Hulu description, "Castle Rock combines the mythological scale and intimate character storytelling of King’s best-loved works, weaving an epic saga of darkness and light, played out on a few square miles of Maine woodland."

Castle Rock, a fictional Maine town, has been a setting or reference in such King novels as Cujo, The Dark Half, IT and Needful Things, as well as the novella The Body, and many short stories, including The Shawshank Redemption. The series is based on characters and situations created by King, according to the announcement.

Hulu adds that the series is "a first-of-its-kind re-imagining that explores the themes and worlds uniting the entire King canon, while brushing up against some of his most iconic and beloved stories."

King, Abrams and Warner Bros. previously teamed on Hulu's 11.22.63.