Stephen King link helps Highland football team through lockdown
by Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent from on (#55TXR)
Author over the moon' after Buckie Thistle raise 900 from signed copy of If It Bleeds, which the club feature in
Fans of Buckie Thistle, a football club on Scotland's north-east coast and occupying a respectable fifth place in the Highland League, were initially bewildered to discover that Stephen King had referenced their team in his latest work.
It is not immediately apparent whether this small town on the Moray Firth, its harbour crowded with fish processors and smokehouses, bears marked similarities to coastal Maine, where the legendary American horror maestro resides, or is host to any maniacal clowns, haunted cars, or other subterranean suburban horrors that so delight his readers.
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