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'Salem's Lot
by: Stephen King

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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780671039745
ISBN: 0671039741
Label: Pocket
Manufacturer: Pocket
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 656
Publication Date: November 01, 1999
Publisher: Pocket
Sales Rank: 39910
Studio: Pocket

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Stephen King's second novel,'Salem's Lot, is the story of a mundane townunder siege from the forces of darkness. Considered one of the most terrifying vampire novels ever written, it cunningly probes the shadows of the human heart -- and the insular evils of small-town America.

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Stephen King's second book, 'Salem's Lot (1975)--about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels: a small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational, goodhearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil.

Simply taken as a contemporary vampire novel, 'Salem's Lot is great fun to read, and has been very influential in the horror genre. But it's also a sly piece of social commentary. As King said in 1983, 'In 'Salem's Lot, the thing that really scared me was not vampires, but the town in the daytime, the town that was empty, knowing that there were things in closets, that there were people tucked under beds, under the concrete pilings of all those trailers. And all the time I was writing that, the Watergate hearings were pouring out of the TV.... Howard Baker kept asking, 'What I want to know is, what did you know and when did you know it?' That line haunts me, it stays in my mind.... During that time I was thinking about secrets, things that have been hidden and were being dragged out into the light.' Sounds quite a bit like the idea behind his 1998 novel of a Maine hamlet haunted by unsightly secrets, Bag of Bones. --Fiona Webster

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- Small-Town Feel Is The Genius Of This Novel
Unlike most hard-core Stephen King fans, I have been reading his books in no particular order...just whichever one I can get my hands on next. Thus, I happened to read the entire Dark Tower series penned by King before I happened onto this novel. In that series, I learned more about Father Callahan, who was first introduced in this book. By reading things so disjointed, I figured that "Salem's Lot" was just a book about vampires who had to be expelled from a small town. Once I dove into this text, however, I realized that the true genius of this novel has nothing to do with the vampires themselves, but more so how King sets up their appearance.

The biggest thing that surprised me about this book was that actual vampires do not appear until the last 100 or so pages of the novel. They are hinted at many times earlier, but never fully exposed/explained. However, at least to me, that is where King ... Read More

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- Vampires at their truest form
With the amount of vampire media currently flooding the market, I found it refreshing to pick up Salem's Lot. It is not a perfect book, as it's one of King's earliest, (his second? I believe) but it still packed a punch.

The writing style is interesting and like many things about this book, faintly reminiscent of Dracula. I found it an easy read and one of the things I like about King's style is his frank way of writing. It is slow in some places and moves quicker in others, but overall I felt gripped from the opening scene and couldn't put the book down. There were plenty of parts that got my heart racing, sitting up in my seat and hoping the creaking on the stairs was just one of the cats.

It describes small town life as it is and it's interesting to read as death spreads along all the intertwined threads of a small town. One of the most frightening things about this book is that it could ... Read More

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- Salems Lot
I really enjoyed this book. It was a great book from beginning to end. Another one of Stephen Kings books that I could not put down. From the beginning it got me interested enough so that I needed to read as much as I could at each sitting.

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- Excellent Vampire Tale
Ben Mears spent part of his youth in the small Maine town of Salem's Lot and has returned for the purpose of writing a book and laying some ghosts to rest. But instead of confronting childhood fears and conquering them, he faces something a lot more solid and dangerous in the form of vampires. Ben can scarcely believe what is happening, and telling the authorities would be more likely to land him in an asylum than it would be to get any real help. So Mr. Mears and a small group of acquaintances do their best to handle the problem themselves.

Salem's Lot is Stephen King's second book and one of the things that I found impressive is how much he had grown in his ability to tell a story after publishing Carrie (not that Carrie was bad by any means). He does a good job of populating the town, giving the various characters distinct personalities, and investing the reader in what happens to them. Some people ... Read More

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