Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.

The line suggests that monstrosity is often produced less by innate evil than by environment—by “places” shaped by human choices (institutions, towns, families, workplaces, prisons, schools) that normalize cruelty, fear, or dehumanization. Read this way, the “monster” is a social product: when a setting rewards violence, secrecy, or scapegoating, it can distort ordinary people into something inhuman. The phrasing also fits a recurring King theme: horror is not only supernatural but rooted in everyday American spaces whose histories, power structures, and collective silences breed violence. The quote functions as a moral warning: to prevent monsters, scrutinize and reform the human-made conditions that manufacture them.