From the book jacket:
'Salem's Lot is a small New England town with white clapboard houses, tree-lined streets, and solid church steeples. That summer in 'Salem's Lot was a summer of home-coming and return; spring burned out and the land lying dry, crackling underfoot. Late that summer, Ben Mears returned to 'Salem's Lot hoping to cast out his own devils and found instead a new unspeakable horror.
A stranger had also come to the Lot, a stranger with a secret as old as evil, a secret that would wreak irreparable harm on those he touched and in turn on those they loved.
All would be changed forever -- Susan, whose love for Ben could not protect her; Father Callahan, the bad priest who put his eroded faith to one last test and Mark, a young boy who sees his fantasy world become reality and ironically proves the best equipped to handle the relentless nightmare of 'Salem's Lot.
This is a rare novel, almost hypnotic in its unyielding suspense, which builds to a climax of classic terror. You will not forget the town of 'Salem's Lot nor any of the people who used to live there.
Moe's Review
Another of King's early works and a good one. I guess every horror writer has to take on vampires at some point in their career and here is King's vampire book which also happens to be King's second book that was published. Salem's Lot tells the story of a small town quietly and slowly being taken over by vampires. We have King's usual cast of characters of heroes, seemingly normal everyday people banding together to fight evil, one of them is a writer as well (another King favorite).
I like that it in this book King doesn't pull any punches, none of the characters are safe in this book nor are any of them perfect.
For all you Dark Tower fans out there this one has a huge tie-in with the series and one you don't want to miss. |
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