On Sunday, Nov. 3 at 2 p.m., Harbor Theater presents a screening of “Lost on a Mountain in Maine” introduced by a talk called "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Woods? Horror and the Power of Kids" by Caroline Bicks, the Stephen E. King Chair in Literature at the University of Maine.

Bicks also teaches at the Bread Loaf School of English. Her book, “Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King,” is forthcoming from Hogarth Press (a Random House imprint). The first scholar granted full access to King’s personal archives, she chronicles the discoveries she made into the master of horror’s process as he crafted his most iconic stories. Her personal stories have been featured in the Modern Love column of the New York Times and on NPR’s “All Things Considered.”

The book “Lost on a Mountain in Maine” is the story told by the real-life lost boy, Donn Fendler, to author Joseph B. Egan and has been a staple of reading for Maine kids for decades. Donn Fendler’s story falls somewhere between a Stephen King novel and a “parent’s worst nightmare.” Now the movie “Lost on a Mountain in Maine’ (PG; 1 hour, 38 mintues), produced by Sylvester Stallone, brings both the horror and power of a young boy to the big screen.

80 miles. 9 days. 1 step at a time. When 12-year-old visiting New Yorker Donn Fendler gets tired of waiting for his father and brothers to join him on the summit of Maine's highest peak, he decides to find his own way back to camp. But Donn doesn't count on a fast-moving fog that obscures the path. He doesn't count on falling down an embankment that hides him from sight. And he doesn't count on taking a turn that leaves him alone to wander aimlessly for nearly two weeks in the empty mountain wilderness. Once you learn of the tenacity and terror a 12-year-old faced in the wilderness of Baxter State Park in the summer of 1939, you’ll never quite look at Mount Katahdin the same again.

At the time of his ordeal Fendler was unaware that a manhunt was underway, making national headlines. After honorary parades and interviews he received a medal of valor from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. What excited many kids almost as much as the story itself was that Fendler, who died in 2016 at the age of 90 in Bangor, visited schools and classrooms around Maine for many years, talking about his harrowing adventure and even bringing extra copies of his books for kids who couldn’t afford to buy one.

“Lost on a Mountain in Maine” plays at Harbor Theater from Nov. 1-14 at 2 p.m on Wednesday and Sunday, and 7 p.m. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. The talk with Caroline Bicks will begin at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 3, and the film will begin immediately following her introduction.