' Turn off the television
- in fact why don't you turn off all the lights except for the one over your favourite chair?
- & we'll talk about vampires here in the dim. I think I can make you believe in them.' Stephen King from the Introduction. ' Salem's Lot is a small New England town with the usual"a of gossips drinkers weirdos & respectable folk. Of course there are tales of strange happenings
- but not 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 & to exorcise the terrors that have haunted him since childhood. The event he witnessed in the house now rented by a new resident. A newcomer with a strange allure. A man who causes Ben some unease as things start to happen: a child disappears a dog is brutally killed
- nothing unusual except the list starts to grow. Soon surprise will turn to bewilderment bewilderment to confusion & finally to terror.. .