![]() Salem’s Lot starts slowly and nothing too untoward happens in its early pages. They won't get them all - not tonight - but there is dreadful work ahead of you tomorrow.' 'Even now, his Undead are crawling over it,' Matt said somberly. 'You know, don't you,' Matt asked him, 'that 'salem's Lot is in a desperate situation?' But as soon as he arrives a child disappears, then a dog is brutally killed - and as the list of gruesome events begins to grow he realizes that something is seriously wrong in the town and with it comes the realization that they all face terrifying adversaries. He also hopes to exorcise the terrors that have haunted him since childhood. ![]() Events centre on Ben Mears, a moderately successful writer who has returned to Jerusalem’s Lot in order to write a novel based on his early years. Salem’s Lot is the story of a small American town being overtaken by vampires, and a brave band of people who come together to fight an ancient evil. Written using the third-person narrative it was King’s second published novel (after his debut novel Carrie (1974) and prior to The Shining (1977). ![]() Salem’s Lot, by Stephen King, was first published in 1975 (Doubleday, 439 pages). ![]()
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