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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'sDracula--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.
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WOW!!!!!
I am only fourteen and I got through this book with amazing speed. I am a person who is not scared easily and love a good horror book often. I read this against my parents will. They really didn't want me too involved in books by Stephen King. I thought this was a thrilling tale. The detail was amazing and I loved every minute of it.
Anyone who says that this book is too long or has too much detail is wrong! The detail is what makes it terrifying! If you need to satisfy your hunger for a phenomenal horror book this is the one for you. It is the first book that I read of Stephen King's and I loved every minute of it!!!
I vant to suck your blood.
Wow! I never thought such a bone-chilling novel existed! I can't believe that a human could write such a good book. It scared to the point that I beefed up my faith in Jesus so I could fend off vampires. Mr. King, bravo!
Great Horror
I read this book and i was on the edge of my seat the whole time. this is a thrilling and a wonderfully addicting book that will keep you from sleeping at night. many of my friends thought i was too young to read this, after all i was only 14. you might think the same. i enjoyed the suspence throughly. out of the few books that i am allowed to get my hands on, i believe this was Stephen King's best.
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