Book guide
Salem's Lot
A writer returns to his haunted hometown just as a seductive newcomer and a wave of disappearances turn a small New England town into a nightmare.
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About Salem's Lot
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 . . .
Reading signals
- Spice
- None
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Slow
Content warnings
- child disappearance
- child death
- child abuse
- animal death
- violence
- death
- blood
- gore
- rape
- domestic abuse
- suicide mention
- alcoholism
- infidelity
- misogyny
