So far with Stephen King

I'm only half way through the first story, but it takes place at a closed-down highway rest stop on I-95. I've seen these closed down stops in my road travels, and there is something spooky about them -- a place which was once so full of life and now it's boarded up and abandoned.

I was thinking that is the genius of Stephen King-- that he takes everyday things that aren't necessarily scary on face value and makes them scary.