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'Salem's Lot / Stephen King.

ISBN: 0385007515
ISBN: 9780385007511
ISBN: 9780345806796
ISBN: 0345806794
Physical Description: 439 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1975.

King, Stephen, 1947- (author).

Summary:

The town knew darkness ... and the awful, heavy silence of terrifying images grotesquely dancing in and out of the shadows ... and stark white faces, huge empty eyes and long gnarled hands that reached out with lustful insistence ... and the paralyzing fear of a diabolical corruption and a hideous peril more dreadful than death. Salem's Lot is a small New England town with the usual quota of gossips, wirdos and respectable folk. Of course there are tales of strange happenings, but no more than in any other town its size. Ben Mears, a moderately successful writer, returns to the Lot to write a novel based on his early years and to exorcise the terrors that have haunted him since childhood. The event he witnesses was in the house now rented by a new resident, a man who cause Ben some unease as things start to happen. The ancient and terrifying legend of vampires comes true for the inhabitants of the small New England town of Jerusalem's Lot, as a plague of nightstalking beings descends upon them.