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A stranger had also come to the Lot, a stranger with a secret as old as evil, a secret that would wreak irreparable harm on those he touched and in turn on those they loved.

All would be changed forever-Susan, whose love for Ben could not protect her; Father Callahan, the bad priest who put his eroded faith to one last test and Mark, a young boy who sees his fantasy world become reality and ironically proves the best equipped to handle the relentless nightmare of 'Salem's Lot.]]> 11590 79 3048937 book 1975 Salem's Lot total:18760|5:4453|4:6504|3:6022|2:1521|1:256| 18760 69662 22298 885 3389 3.75 733345 32899 45807266 1504904 11590 0450031063 9780450031069 674 <![CDATA[Salem's Lot]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1218672582m/11590.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1218672582s/11590.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11590.Salem_s_Lot 3.71 16496 'Salem's Lot--about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels: a small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational, goodhearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil.

Simply taken as a contemporary vampire novel, 'Salem's Lotis great fun to read, and has been very influential in the horror genre. But it's also a sly piece of social commentary. 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. And all the time I was writing that, the Watergate hearings were pouring out of the TV.... Howard Baker kept asking, 'What I want to know is, what did you know and when did you know it?' That line haunts me, it stays in my mind.... 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 unsightly secrets, Bag of Bones. --Fiona Webster

]]> 1975 4 13 false Thu Jul 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Feb 09 01:47:31 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 17 09:54:01 -0800 2009 Salem's Lot is one of the undead classics, I was bound to read it. Ok, I was bound to listen to the audiobook, if I were ...more...]]> 8468239 441351 11590 0450031063 9780450031069 674 <![CDATA[Salem's Lot]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1218672582m/11590.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1218672582s/11590.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11590.Salem_s_Lot 3.71 18760 'Salem's Lot--about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels: a small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational, goodhearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil.

Simply taken as a contemporary vampire novel, 'Salem's Lotis great fun to read, and has been very influential in the horror genre. But it's also a sly piece of social commentary. 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. And all the time I was writing that, the Watergate hearings were pouring out of the TV.... Howard Baker kept asking, 'What I want to know is, what did you know and when did you know it?' That line haunts me, it stays in my mind.... 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 unsightly secrets, Bag of Bones. --Fiona Webster

]]> 1975 5 18 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 30 23:23:46 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 30 23:23:46 -0700 2007 more...]]> 39126678 618726 18128 0671039741 9780671039745 89 <![CDATA[Salem's Lot]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166856564m/18128.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166856564s/18128.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18128.Salem_s_Lot 3.72 1057 'Salem's Lot (1975)--about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels: a small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational, goodhearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil.

Simply taken as a contemporary vampire novel, 'Salem's Lot is great fun to read, and has been very influential in the horror genre. But it's also a sly piece of social commentary. 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. And all the time I was writing that, the Watergate hearings were pouring out of the TV.... Howard Baker kept asking, 'What I want to know is, what did you know and when did you know it?' That line haunts me, it stays in my mind.... 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 unsightly secrets, Bag of Bones. --Fiona Webster

]]> 1975 3 4 false Tue Dec 02 12:22:10 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 09:41:52 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5128048 310412 11590 0450031063 9780450031069 674 <![CDATA[Salem's Lot]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1218672582m/11590.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1218672582s/11590.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11590.Salem_s_Lot 3.71 18760 'Salem's Lot--about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels: a small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational, goodhearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil.

Simply taken as a contemporary vampire novel, 'Salem's Lotis great fun to read, and has been very influential in the horror genre. But it's also a sly piece of social commentary. 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. And all the time I was writing that, the Watergate hearings were pouring out of the TV.... Howard Baker kept asking, 'What I want to know is, what did you know and when did you know it?' That line haunts me, it stays in my mind.... 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 unsightly secrets, Bag of Bones. --Fiona Webster

]]> 1975 5 3 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 26 05:41:12 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 07:07:15 -0800 2009
I love the ...more...]]> 48532407 1956959 5413 0385516487 9780385516488 25 <![CDATA['Salem's Lot, Illustrated Edition]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165520186m/5413.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165520186s/5413.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5413._Salem_s_Lot_Illustrated_Edition 4.09 100 'Salem's Lot (1975)--about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels: a small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational, goodhearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil.

Simply taken as a contemporary vampire novel, 'Salem's Lot is great fun to read, and has been very influential in the horror genre. But it's also a sly piece of social commentary. 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. And all the time I was writing that, the Watergate hearings were pouring out of the TV.... Howard Baker kept asking, 'What I want to know is, what did you know and when did you know it?' That line haunts me, it stays in my mind.... 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 unsightly secrets, Bag of Bones. --Fiona Webster

]]> 1975 4 4 false Mon Mar 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 07 14:12:21 -0800 2009 Thu Apr 23 06:14:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 23258069 733624 11590 0450031063 9780450031069 674 <![CDATA[Salem's Lot]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1218672582m/11590.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1218672582s/11590.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11590.Salem_s_Lot 3.71 18760 'Salem's Lot--about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels: a small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational, goodhearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil.

Simply taken as a contemporary vampire novel, 'Salem's Lotis great fun to read, and has been very influential in the horror genre. But it's also a sly piece of social commentary. 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. And all the time I was writing that, the Watergate hearings were pouring out of the TV.... Howard Baker kept asking, 'What I want to know is, what did you know and when did you know it?' That line haunts me, it stays in my mind.... 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 unsightly secrets, Bag of Bones. --Fiona Webster

]]> 1975 3 2 false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 29 16:23:31 -0700 2008 Thu May 29 16:32:25 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3046422 184928 18128 0671039741 9780671039745 89 <![CDATA[Salem's Lot]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166856564m/18128.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166856564s/18128.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18128.Salem_s_Lot 3.71 18760 'Salem's Lot (1975)--about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels: a small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational, goodhearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil.

Simply taken as a contemporary vampire novel, 'Salem's Lot is great fun to read, and has been very influential in the horror genre. But it's also a sly piece of social commentary. 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. And all the time I was writing that, the Watergate hearings were pouring out of the TV.... Howard Baker kept asking, 'What I want to know is, what did you know and when did you know it?' That line haunts me, it stays in my mind.... 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 unsightly secrets, Bag of Bones. --Fiona Webster

]]> 1975 5 2 false Fri Jul 13 17:46:03 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 00:33:14 -0800 2009 Christ - everybody: back in the car. NOW.

Yesterday, I took a stretch break in Ritzville, Washington. I couldn't help myself: I put my hands on my hips, looked up and down the empty avenue and said, out loud, "Things just aren't the same in Salem's Lot these days."

...more...]]> 38586832 331803 437133 0451168089 9780451168085 15 <![CDATA['Salem's Lot]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/437133._Salem_s_Lot 3.58 360 'Salem's Lot (1975)--about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels: a small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational, goodhearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil.

Simply taken as a contemporary vampire novel, 'Salem's Lot is great fun to read, and has been very influential in the horror genre. But it's also a sly piece of social commentary. 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. And all the time I was writing that, the Watergate hearings were pouring out of the TV.... Howard Baker kept asking, 'What I want to know is, what did you know and when did you know it?' That line haunts me, it stays in my mind.... 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 unsightly secrets, Bag of Bones. --Fiona Webster

]]> 1975 4 1 false Mon Nov 24 19:59:27 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 18:55:21 -0800 2008 more...]]> 29086855 1340499 18128 0671039741 9780671039745 89 <![CDATA[Salem's Lot]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166856564m/18128.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166856564s/18128.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18128.Salem_s_Lot 3.71 18760 'Salem's Lot (1975)--about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels: a small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational, goodhearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil.

Simply taken as a contemporary vampire novel, 'Salem's Lot is great fun to read, and has been very influential in the horror genre. But it's also a sly piece of social commentary. 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. And all the time I was writing that, the Watergate hearings were pouring out of the TV.... Howard Baker kept asking, 'What I want to know is, what did you know and when did you know it?' That line haunts me, it stays in my mind.... 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 unsightly secrets, Bag of Bones. --Fiona Webster

]]> 1975 5 3 false Sun Dec 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Aug 02 18:28:50 -0700 2008 Sun Feb 22 21:31:02 -0800 2009 more...]]> 58193673 2110350 924765 067103975X 9780671039752 5 <![CDATA['Salem's Lot]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179504918m/924765.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179504918s/924765.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/924765._Salem_s_Lot 4.14 51 'Salem's Lot (1975)--about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels: a small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational, goodhearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil.

Simply taken as a contemporary vampire novel, 'Salem's Lot is great fun to read, and has been very influential in the horror genre. But it's also a sly piece of social commentary. 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. And all the time I was writing that, the Watergate hearings were pouring out of the TV.... Howard Baker kept asking, 'What I want to know is, what did you know and when did you know it?' That line haunts me, it stays in my mind.... 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 unsightly secrets, Bag of Bones. --Fiona Webster

]]> 1975 5 2 true Wed Apr 17 00:00:00 -0800 1985 Tue Jun 02 11:12:38 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 18:10:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 30216266 223837 11590 0450031063 9780450031069 674 <![CDATA[Salem's Lot]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1218672582m/11590.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1218672582s/11590.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11590.Salem_s_Lot 3.71 18760 'Salem's Lot--about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels: a small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational, goodhearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil.

Simply taken as a contemporary vampire novel, 'Salem's Lotis great fun to read, and has been very influential in the horror genre. But it's also a sly piece of social commentary. 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. And all the time I was writing that, the Watergate hearings were pouring out of the TV.... Howard Baker kept asking, 'What I want to know is, what did you know and when did you know it?' That line haunts me, it stays in my mind.... 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 unsightly secrets, Bag of Bones. --Fiona Webster

]]> 1975 3 1 true Sat Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 15 07:43:50 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 16 09:52:39 -0700 2008 more...]]> 27040014 177997 18128 0671039741 9780671039745 89 <![CDATA[Salem's Lot]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166856564m/18128.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166856564s/18128.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18128.Salem_s_Lot 3.71 18760 'Salem's Lot (1975)--about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels: a small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational, goodhearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil.

Simply taken as a contemporary vampire novel, 'Salem's Lot is great fun to read, and has been very influential in the horror genre. But it's also a sly piece of social commentary. 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. And all the time I was writing that, the Watergate hearings were pouring out of the TV.... Howard Baker kept asking, 'What I want to know is, what did you know and when did you know it?' That line haunts me, it stays in my mind.... 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 unsightly secrets, Bag of Bones. --Fiona Webster

]]> 1975 5 1 false Thu Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 12 09:55:15 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 17 15:28:29 -0700 2008
This book was suspenseful, filled to the brim with character development, and sprinkled with such a feeling of d...more...]]> 8555929 90786 11590 0450031063 9780450031069 674 <![CDATA[Salem's Lot]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1218672582m/11590.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1218672582s/11590.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11590.Salem_s_Lot 3.71 18760 'Salem's Lot--about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels: a small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational, goodhearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil.

Simply taken as a contemporary vampire novel, 'Salem's Lotis great fun to read, and has been very influential in the horror genre. But it's also a sly piece of social commentary. 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. And all the time I was writing that, the Watergate hearings were pouring out of the TV.... Howard Baker kept asking, 'What I want to know is, what did you know and when did you know it?' That line haunts me, it stays in my mind.... 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 unsightly secrets, Bag of Bones. --Fiona Webster

]]> 1975 1 1 false Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994 Fri Nov 02 05:47:40 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 02 06:21:36 -0700 2007 more...]]> 44743913 1877435 437133 0451168089 9780451168085 15 <![CDATA['Salem's Lot]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/437133._Salem_s_Lot 3.71 18760 'Salem's Lot (1975)--about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels: a small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational, goodhearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil.

Simply taken as a contemporary vampire novel, 'Salem's Lot is great fun to read, and has been very influential in the horror genre. But it's also a sly piece of social commentary. 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. And all the time I was writing that, the Watergate hearings were pouring out of the TV.... Howard Baker kept asking, 'What I want to know is, what did you know and when did you know it?' That line haunts me, it stays in my mind.... 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 unsightly secrets, Bag of Bones. --Fiona Webster

]]> 1975 5 1 false Thu Jan 29 07:18:06 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 07:19:14 -0800 2009 4660 284 11590 0450031063 9780450031069 674 <![CDATA[Salem's Lot]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1218672582m/11590.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1218672582s/11590.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11590.Salem_s_Lot 3.71 18760 'Salem's Lot--about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels: a small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational, goodhearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil.

Simply taken as a contemporary vampire novel, 'Salem's Lotis great fun to read, and has been very influential in the horror genre. But it's also a sly piece of social commentary. 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. And all the time I was writing that, the Watergate hearings were pouring out of the TV.... Howard Baker kept asking, 'What I want to know is, what did you know and when did you know it?' That line haunts me, it stays in my mind.... 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 unsightly secrets, Bag of Bones. --Fiona Webster

]]> 1975 5 1 false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Dec 26 22:12:10 -0800 2006 Tue Feb 27 21:06:57 -0800 2007 more...]]> 20876714 703606 3234984 1402593791 2 <![CDATA[Salem's Lot]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1209049441m/3234984.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1209049441s/3234984.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3234984.Salem_s_Lot 3.75 4 1975 4 1 false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 24 08:02:10 -0700 2008 Sat May 03 20:04:26 -0700 2008
You know, I forgot how much set up Stephen did for the town before he even got to Barlow and the vampires. But I think you really need that with this one, because the reader needs to...more...]]> 70159459 2205814 924763 0450028607 9780450028601 5 <![CDATA[Salem's Lot]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1221738310m/924763.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1221738310s/924763.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/924763.Salem_s_Lot 3.66 44
A stranger had also come to the Lot, a stranger with a secret as old as evil, a secret that would wreak irreparable harm on those he touched and in turn on those they loved.

All would be changed forever-Susan, whose love for Ben could not protect her; Father Callahan, the bad priest who put his eroded faith to one last test and Mark, a young boy who sees his fantasy world become reality and ironically proves the best equipped to handle the relentless nightmare of 'Salem's Lot.]]> 1975 0 0 false Sat Sep 05 11:13:42 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 16:18:38 -0700 2009 gay vampire and his elderly human lover watchdog. What captured me were the voice overs ...more...]]> 68581325 1679810 11590 0450031063 9780450031069 674 <![CDATA[Salem's Lot]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1218672582m/11590.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1218672582s/11590.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11590.Salem_s_Lot 3.71 18760 'Salem's Lot--about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels: a small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational, goodhearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil.

Simply taken as a contemporary vampire novel, 'Salem's Lotis great fun to read, and has been very influential in the horror genre. But it's also a sly piece of social commentary. 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. And all the time I was writing that, the Watergate hearings were pouring out of the TV.... Howard Baker kept asking, 'What I want to know is, what did you know and when did you know it?' That line haunts me, it stays in my mind.... 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 unsightly secrets, Bag of Bones. --Fiona Webster

]]> 1975 5 0 false Mon Jul 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 13:35:17 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 13:43:40 -0700 2009 'Salem's Lot is lean and mean, at less than 500 pages, and therefore is less wordy and hit with greater impact than many of King's later, long...more...]]> 53813917 182422 11590 0450031063 9780450031069 674 <![CDATA[Salem's Lot]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1218672582m/11590.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1218672582s/11590.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11590.Salem_s_Lot 3.71 18760 'Salem's Lot--about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels: a small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational, goodhearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil.

Simply taken as a contemporary vampire novel, 'Salem's Lotis great fun to read, and has been very influential in the horror genre. But it's also a sly piece of social commentary. 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. And all the time I was writing that, the Watergate hearings were pouring out of the TV.... Howard Baker kept asking, 'What I want to know is, what did you know and when did you know it?' That line haunts me, it stays in my mind.... 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 unsightly secrets, Bag of Bones. --Fiona Webster

]]> 1975 4 0 false Fri Apr 24 07:11:52 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 07:25:20 -0700 2009
I have to agree with my dad abou...more...]]> 51762481 2195881 11590 0450031063 9780450031069 674 <![CDATA[Salem's Lot]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1218672582m/11590.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1218672582s/11590.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11590.Salem_s_Lot 3.71 18760 'Salem's Lot--about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels: a small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational, goodhearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil.

Simply taken as a contemporary vampire novel, 'Salem's Lotis great fun to read, and has been very influential in the horror genre. But it's also a sly piece of social commentary. 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. And all the time I was writing that, the Watergate hearings were pouring out of the TV.... Howard Baker kept asking, 'What I want to know is, what did you know and when did you know it?' That line haunts me, it stays in my mind.... 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 unsightly secrets, Bag of Bones. --Fiona Webster

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