King, Malden, and Cell.

For you folks in Mass.
King, Malden, and Cell.

From Boston.com News:

King Visits Malden, Zombies in Tow

MALDEN -- Stephen King has fond memories of Malden. He's showing his affection by unleashing a horde of zombies on Salem Street. It's kind of touching, really.

In his new horror novel ''Cell," which begins in downtown Boston, a mysterious cellphone ''pulse" turns all those who answer into subhuman maniacs. In a 60-page section called ''Malden," a small band of survivors escapes the carnage in the Hub and takes temporary refuge from the ''phone-crazies" in a house at 140 Salem St. in Malden.

The selection of Salem Street, and of Malden itself, as the setting for a horror story could have city residents scratching their heads. King's explanation?

''My mother's sister, my Aunt Molly Donahue, lived in Malden, she lived on Salem Street," King explains by phone from Florida. ''So I went back to what I knew. She was actually a milkman in Malden when I was growing up, and we spent a lot of time there when we were kids."