The novel is set in a small town in Maine, a common trend with King’s novels.
I love the sense of place King creates in ‘Salem’s Lot. The town also features in the short stories Jerusalem’s Lot and One for the Road and the plight of Father Callahan, the priest who flees after being bitten by Barlow is played out in The Dark Tower novels. The 1979 TV mini-series is one of the best adaptations of King’s work ( I haven’t read this one in a while so it was good to revisit and fall in love all over again. I’ve read it at least half a dozen times. ‘Salem’s Lot is one of my favourite King novels.
Late that summer, Ben Mears returned to ‘Salem’s Lot hoping to cast out his own devils and found instead a new, unspeakable horror.Ī 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.Īll 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…Īlmost everyone thought the man and the boy were father and son. That summer in ‘Salem’s Lot was a summer of homecoming and return spring burned out and the land lying dry, crackling underfoot. ‘Salem’s Lot is a small New England town with white clapboard houses, tree-lined streets, and solid church steeples.
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