Her real name is Diane, but she changed it in her uncle’s memory. Of course, that’s a nod to The Shining, but the writers of Castle Rock gild this particular Easter egg: She also reveals that her name is an homage to Jack Torrance. While Jackie Torrance talks to the Kid about her past, she mentions that her uncle was a writer who tried to ax murder his whole family.
One of King’s earliest short stories, “The Reaper’s Image” - originally published in 1969 in Startling Mystery Stories and later in the short-story collection Skeleton Crew - tells the tale of an antique mirror haunted by the image of the Grim Reaper. There’s a bunch of graffiti in the Kid’s cell (what does “G.F.B.D.” mean?), but only one stands out as an obvious reference. While it could just be a coincidental name, it’s likely a reference to “The House on Maple Street,” a short story from King’s Nightmares & Dreamscapes. Does Molly actually live in the Dodd House? No wonder she’s got so much psychic mojo.īlink and you’ll miss the fact that Alan and Henry turn down Maple Street as they’re headed to Matthew Weaver’s relocated body. It’s almost certainly another reference to Frank Dodd, the legendary strangler of The Dead Zone. While Molly shows the Lacy home to potential buyers, she tells them that a serial strangler died in her house (and she still sleeps like a baby!). It’s never been fully clear if she’s related to Vince, but probably? And, of course, Rita Desjardins was the name of Carrie’s P.E. Vince himself was a part of Ace’s gang in “The Body,” and one could easily see him living in a dilapidated home on the edge of Castle Rock after the action of that short story or the Stand by Me adaptation. Henry Deaver’s investigation into his own disappearance brings up the name Vince Desjardins, who had a felony and lived near the spot where young Henry disappeared.
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