The story takes place over a few days in a town. The book doesn't say exactly where the town is. "I was in the bathroom at school, sitting down on the toilet, humming a song." This states that Darren was at school. A lot of the story takes place here, its where they threw the tickets in the air for Darren to catch. "Then I gazed up at the scary building and gulped. It looked like the sort of place you saw in a horror movie, where lots of people go in but they don't come out." The theater is another setting, the building is old, abandoned, and scary. "We found ourselves standing in a long, dark, cold corridor. I had my jacket on, but shivered anyway. It was freezing." This describes how the theater felt and look liked on the inside when Steve and Darren walked inside. "It was one of the whitest places I'd ever seen: White walls, white floors, white uniforms. It wasn't very busy but there was a buzz to the place, a sound of bed springs and coughing, machines humming, doctors speaking softly." This is the setting of the hospital where Steve was taken when he got bitten. "All sounds faded away as they lowered me down the dark, dark hole. There was a jolt when the coffin hit the bottom.