Salem's Lot
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (816 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0743536967 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 372 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Surprisingly, King's Most Terrifying Work I thought this was going to be a lame read because vampires are a bit over-done now a days.With Twilight, Vampire Diaries, and all these romantic, obnoxious, poorly acted vampire movies and shows out, I couldn't imagine that a book about vampires could possibly be anything but lam. Rapunzel Smith said Salem's Lot, let the reader be ready for everything. This is one scary book, but it's black humor at that. Forget the made for TV movies, Mr. King's works just don't translate well to the screen. The only one that came close was his black comedy Misery, because Kathy Bates and James Caan were brilliant. Now Salem's lot starts off so. "A New England Vampire Tale" according to David G.. I enjoyed Salem's Lot. Prior to this novel, I read Carrie which was my first by King. I liked this story, a writer staying in a boarding house to write a book about a haunted house from his childhood that continued to bother him even in his adulthood. A group coming together to ki
A STEPHEN KING CLASSIC FINALLY AVAILABLE AS AN AUDIOBOOK Stephen King's second novel, Salem's Lot, is the story of a mundane town under 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.
And all the time I was writing that, the Watergate hearings were pouring out of the TV. 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. 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