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Salem's Lot

By Stephen King

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| eBook | 9781848940819

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‘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 Engl Continue

‘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…

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  • Book Review: 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King Share

    The recent paperback release of 'Salem's Lot , Stephen King's second published novel, is a wonderful old-school vampire story, where the vampires aren't sparkly, or romantic, or James Dean cool — they are rampant, foul-smelling, and very, very evil. ... (read full critics)

    blogcritics published on Sat, 7 Jan 2012

  • 'Salem's Lot [The Illustrated Edition]

    Shotsmag Reviews - 'Salem's Lot [The Illustrated Edition] by Stephen King 2006 is shaping up well for fans of thrillers by Stephen King. First we get Cell which was a tremendous return to form for the King, harkening back to his roots, and now we ha ... (read full critics)

    shotsmag published on Tue, 28 Sep 2010

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    When Stephen King was a horror writer

    An early work by Stephen King; a slightly obvious view of vampirism (decades before it became all the rage) in an interesting albeit at times a bit stereotyped story - and Stephen King's own fascinating explanation of the Roanoke Colony mystery fitted in.

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    Marco Piva said on Jan 28, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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    Not many books can frighten me, but this one crawled underneath my skin when I was a teenager. Especially Marks storyline and the nighly visits did me in, brrr.

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    Sengaia said on Apr 27, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • s'alright suppose

    At last, relief! Done it, finished, phew, that was a bit long. And who's dumb idea was it to add in the writer's edit - the alternative endings, short stories, etc? UN NECESSARY.

    Although I bit intimidated by the size of this tome - first off I thought this was surprisingly good. I was reading it b ... (continue)

    At last, relief! Done it, finished, phew, that was a bit long. And who's dumb idea was it to add in the writer's edit - the alternative endings, short stories, etc? UN NECESSARY.

    Although I bit intimidated by the size of this tome - first off I thought this was surprisingly good. I was reading it because I'd avoided King in my youth and wanted a face-off with my prejudice. I also knew that an (awful) TV-movie had been made of this W-A-Y back, which I'd seen as a kid and had been scared poopless by it.

    Anyhow, it pages-turns alright and King is really quite paint-a-picture-in-your-mind descriptive, in the first quarter. But ultimately, the plot runs out of breath and plods along, becoming predictable and with some characters left a little sparse - then abruptly disposed of and also, frankly, TOO many characters, finding myself often having to think really hard about who someone was exactly - someone who was sometimes not detailed too well, in the story.

    I didn't bother with the "extras". Enough was enough, for me it was a novel that misfires and could have been better, probably if it'd lost a hundred and fifty pages - not gained any! Also, the edition I was reading, which I couldn't find on aNobii, had plenty of typos, which furrowed my brow a few too many times, pah!

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    mrpeterryan said on Jun 1, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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