'Salem’s Lot

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Ben Mears, a writer, comes back to Jerusalem's Lot, the small Maine town where he spent part of his childhood, to write a book about the Marsten House, an abandoned mansion on the hill that has haunted him since a frightening experience there as a boy. He finds that the house has just been bought by two newcomers who are opening an antiques shop in town. Then a child disappears, people begin to fall ill, and Ben and a handful of townspeople, among them a schoolteacher, a doctor, a priest and a boy who loves monster films, come to believe that a vampire is at work. 'Salem's Lot, published in 1975, was Stephen King's second novel.

• Horror
• Catholic Church
• Hitmen
• City and town life
• Vampires
• Authors
• Occult & supernatural
• New england