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'Salem's Lot

a chilling classic from the No. 1 bestseller

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'Salem's Lot

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Ron McLarty
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 Don't miss King's #1 chilling classic, now a major motion picture from Warner Bros. Pictures. Available in cinemas (UK and Germany) or stream on MAX from October 2024.

'Salem's Lot is a small New England town with white clapboard houses, tree-lined streets and solid church steeples. Of course there are tales of strange happenings - but no more than in any other such town.

Ben Mears has returned to the Lot to write a novel and exorcise the terrors that have haunted him since childhood - since the event he witnessed at the Marsten House.

He finds the house has been rented by a newcomer, a man who causes Ben some unease. And then things start to happen: a child disappears, a dog is brutally killed - nothing unusual, except the list keeps growing...©1975 Stephen King Crime Fiction Fantasy Horror Supernatural Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Scary

Critic Reviews

Hugely impressive
One of the few horror writers who can truly make the flesh creep
Mr. King's gift of storytelling is unrivaled. His ferocious imagination is unlimited (George Pelecanos)
[King is] ... the guy who probably knows more about scary goings-on in confined, isolated places than anybody since Edgar Allen Poe
Popular fiction's most prolific terror-monger's...genius remains in the conjuring of evil out of ephemera, of a malevolent universe lurking behind the Walmart shopping trolley banality of every day, small town America
All stars
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I thoroughly enjoyed this novel. feeling lost now its ended. best be buying another Stephen King Thriller

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McLarty brings a deep, unsettling tone to this novel about a small town with a dark, supernatural secret. King's second novel, Ben Mears is a writer who returns to his quiet boyhood hometown to finish his next novel. Drawn from Bram Stoker's Dracula, King explores what would happen if Dracula arrived in 1970s America. A classic when published in the mid-1970s fans of the vampire genre will find limitations within the storyline, but overall, King expertly combines the supernatural larger than life terror of the supernatural with the mundane everyday security of a small town. McLarty's performance is fantastic and I would recommend this book to anyone looking to revisit a King classic.

A great peformance on one of King's classic novels

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this is a great reading of this super novel. one of my favourites done justice.

great read

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Stephen King and the narrator both do a fantastic job of bringing Salem’s Lot to life in a story that pulls no punches.

A town brought to life

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king tranposes dracula into modern 1970's america - though thats nearly 50 years ago now. king loses the romantiscm that made dracula and classic for a more literal story. now we are flooded with vampire mythos' but at the time such stories were more scarce. its quite refreshing to imagine vampires more true to the og dracula. it is only rices' that are perhaps on a par with the original.

king chooses for dracula to remain a monster with no apparent emotions or humanity. it is mortals that are heros. the post script ending tranforms a typical anticlimatic king ending into a finish worthy of the journey. ive made my way through perhaps half of kings catalogue and i would put this somewhere amongst the top third of his works.

King's take on Stoker's classic

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