Stephen King lived in this house. Now you can.
As explained on Stephen King’s official website, it was while living at a rental home in Orrington, Maine in early 1979 that King was struck with the inspiration to write Pet Sematary, released in 1983 and turned into a movie in 1989.
The site explains the novel’s origin story…
“Stephen was serving as a writer-in-residence at the University of Maine at Orono and living in a rented house in nearby Orrington that bordered a major truck route which frequently claimed the lives of dogs and cats. In the woods behind his house, local children had created an informal pet cemetery. One day, his daughter’s cat was killed by a passing truck. Stephen was faced with the task of burying the cat in the pet cemetery and then explaining to his daughter what had happened.”
“It was on the third day after the burial that the idea for a novel came to him.”
All these years later, Bangor Daily News reports that the very house that inspired Pet Sematary back in 1979 is now up for sale. The house, located at 664 River Road in Orrington, just went on the market for $255,000.
Built in 1904, the house has “four bedrooms, two fireplaces, a formal dining room and an all-season sunroom. It sits on just over 3 acres.”
You can check out the real estate listing over on Zillow.
