Salem’s Lot by Stephen King is a classic horror novel first published in 1975. It is King’s second published book and remains one of his most chilling works.
Ben Mears, a novelist and former resident of the small town of Jerusalem’s Lot (aka ‘Salem’s Lot) in Maine, returns after many years to write a book and confront past childhood traumas. He rents a room in a boarding house and becomes romantically involved with a local woman named Susan Norton.
At the same time, two mysterious men, Kurt Barlow and Richard Straker, arrive and purchase the long-abandoned Marsten House, a place Ben believes is inherently evil. Soon after, strange events begin to plague the town: people go missing, and a sinister darkness seems to be spreading.
Ben, along with a small group of allies—including a schoolteacher, a doctor, a young boy named Mark Petrie, and a priest named Father Callahan—comes to a horrifying realization: the town is being overrun by vampires, led by the ancient and powerful Barlow.
As the infection spreads, the group must fight to survive and destroy the evil that has consumed ‘Salem’s Lot, even as the town itself becomes a ghostly shell of what it once was.
TV/Movies:
- Salem’s Lot (1979) IMDB | WATCH
- Salem’s Lot (2004) IMDB | WATCH
- Salem’s Lot (2024) IMDB | WATCH
- A Return to Salem’s Lot (1987) IMDB | WATCH
