Keating now lives and writes in Montreal, but she used to live in Saint John, and she grew up between Saint Andrews and Harvey, places that have really inspired her work as a writer. "It's like, this is familiar, but there's something not quite right." When you give it a new name, you can have more artistic licence, said Keating, to "move boundaries" and "place things where they're not quite supposed to be." And so there's a lot that people can imagine," said Keating, a big fan of Stephen King, who has similarly fictionalized Castle Rock and Derry, based on places in Maine. "A place like New Brunswick, I feel like there's a lot there that people don't see. With fog hanging over old-growth forest and breakers crashing against jagged cliffs, the Fundy coast can have an uncanny, Maritime-gothic mood, which Laura Keating thought was perfect for her debut horror novella.Īgony's Lodestone is described as Blair Witch meets Stranger Things and takes place in a fictionalized version of Saint John, called Lancaster Falls - more specifically, in a wilderness preserve bearing a strong resemblance to the Irving Nature Park. Laura Keating now lives and writes in Montreal, but she used to live in Saint John, and she grew up between Saint Andrews and Harvey, places that have really inspired her work as a writer.
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