In Stephen King's novel Carrie, Carrie White lives in Chamberlain, Maine. Chamberlain is a fictional town that provides the story's close-knit, hostile setting, where Carrie attends Thomas Ewen Consolidated High School and lives with her deeply religious mother, Margaret White.
The town is more than a backdrop. King's novel presents Chamberlain through newspaper reports, official accounts, letters, and later commentary about the catastrophe surrounding Carrie. This documentary-like structure makes the fictional events feel like a recorded local disaster rather than a conventional supernatural narrative.
Readers sometimes choose Derry or Castle Rock because those are two of King's best-known fictional Maine towns. Neither is Carrie's home. Salem's Lot is also the title and setting of another King novel, but it is unrelated to Carrie's community. Chamberlain is sometimes confused with the real place named Chamberlain, Maine; the town in the novel is fictional.
Carrie's connection to Chamberlain culminates at the high-school prom, where bullying, humiliation, and supernatural power converge. The aftermath transforms the town from an ordinary rural community into the center of what later accounts call the White incident.