'Salem's Lot

'Salem's Lot
by Stephen King

'Salem's Lot
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Author: Stephen King
Edition: Mass Market Paperback
Published: 1999-11-01
ISBN: 0671039741
Number of pages: 656
Publisher: Pocket

Book Reviews of 'Salem's Lot

Book Review: Stands the test of time
Summary: 5 Stars

In King's 1999 prologue to the Signet edition of the book he remarks that the book is "dated." I agree with that. When you read it, you can tell that is was written in the early 1970s. However, I found that is what made this book so special. It is a timeless story of a small New England town under siege with the townspeople living their daily lives afraid of the boogey man, be it the Vietnam War, new residents, etc. This book is scary, well paced, and a beautiful adaptation of Dracula in the 20th century.

Summary of 'Salem's Lot

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's Dracula--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. --Fiona Webster


Stephen King's second novel,'Salem's Lot, is the story of a mundane townunder siege from the forces of darkness. Considered one of the most terrifying vampire novels ever written, it cunningly probes the shadows of the human heart -- and the insular evils of small-town America.

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