By Stephen King.
‘Salem’s Lot is a small New England town with white clapboard houses, tree-lined streets and solid church steeples. Of course there are tales of strange happenings – but no more than in any other such town.
Ben Mears has returned to the Lot to write a novel and exorcise the terrors that have haunted him since childhood – since the event he witnessed at the Marsten House.
He finds the house has been rented by a newcomer, a man who causes Ben some unease. And then things start to happen: a child disappears, a dog is brutally killed – nothing unusual, except the list keeps growing…
First Stephen King novel in a while. Having just finished a book about vampires, I thought this would be a good one to read to get King’s take on the vampire story. We get lots of characters, similar to what you. might find in other King books.
This book tends to leave a lot of the horror to your imagination and it’s not that gory. King sets the scene and you’re left to fill in the blanks such as when the vampire children(!) attack the bus driver.
A good vampire story though, with crosses, Holy Water, stakes through the heart!
Not sure the reason for the ‘good guys’ to hang around as far as the plot went but it would have been a very short story if they hadn’t I suppose.
