Stephen King's second book, 'Salem's Lot ()--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, /5(K). · Ben Mears, a writer who spent part of his childhood in Jerusalem's Lot, Maine, also known as 'Salem's Lot, has returned after twenty-five years to write a book about the long-abandoned Marsten House, where he had a bad experience as a child. He soon discovers that an ancient evil has also come to town and its turning the residents into vampires. He vows to stop the plague of undead Actors: Spencer Treat Clark, Bill Camp, Alfre Woodard. King once said that in ’Salem’s Lot, he set out to create “a fictional town with enough prosaic reality about it to offset the comic-book menace of a bunch of vampires.” He did just that by drawing on our universal fear of outsiders, and nowhere is that fear more recognizable than in our traditional image of the New England small town, where insularity itself becomes a defense against incursion by strangers/5(K).
'Salem's Lot is a horror novel by American author Stephen King. It was his second published novel. The story involves a writer named Ben Mears who returns to the town of Jerusalem's Lot (or 'Salem's Lot for short) in Maine, where he lived from the age of five through nine, only to discover that the residents are becoming www.doorway.ru town is revisited in the short stories "Jerusalem's Lot. Stephen King's Salem's Lot is his quintessential vampire story, and has so far been adapted into two TV miniseries and a movie of varying quality. King has written several vampire tales at this point, but Salem's Lot will probably always be the fan favorite. It was only King's second published novel, released in It's also just a really good book, showing off right away just how. • an introduction by Stephen King • an afterword by Clive Barker • many deleted scenes that were cut from the original manuscript • the short stories "Jerusalem's Lot" and "One for the Road" • deluxe oversized design (7 inches X 10 inches) featuring two color interior printing as part of the page design.
'Salem's Lot is the second book published by Stephen King. The book was published by Doubleday in Octo. The novel is preceded by the prequel " Jerusalem's Lot," and followed by the sequel " One for the Road," both included in King's short-story collection Night Shift and in the illustrated edition of the novel. Stephen King's second book, 'Salem's Lot ()--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. ' Salem's Lot is a horror novel by American author Stephen King. It was his second published novel. The story involves a writer named Ben Mears who returns to the town of Jerusalem's Lot (or 'Salem's Lot for short) in Maine, where he lived from the age of five through nine, only to discover that the residents are becoming vampires.
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