A superb novel set in classic Stephen King territory – a small new England town about to be engulfed by terror.
‘Turn off the television – in fact, why don't you turn off all the
lights except for the one over your favourite chair – and we'll talk about
vampires here in the dim. I think I can make you believe in them.’
Stephen King, from the Introduction.
'Salem's Lot is a small New England town with the usual quota of gossips,
drinkers, weirdos and respectable folk. Of course there are tales of strange
happenings – but not more than in any other town its size.
Ben Mears, a moderately successful writer, returns to the Lot to write a novel
based on his early years, and to exorcise the terrors that have haunted him
since childhood. The event he witnessed in the house now rented by a new
resident. A newcomer with a strange allure. A man who causes Ben some unease
as things start to happen: a child disappears, a dog is brutally killed –
nothing unusual, except the list starts to grow.
Soon surprise will turn to bewilderment, bewilderment to confusion and finally
to terror . . .
