Salem's Lot Book

'Turn off the television - in fact why don't you turn off all the lights except for the one over your favourite chair? - and 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 quota of gossips drinkers weirdos and 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 and 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 and finally to terror ...

A superb novel set in classic Stephen King territory - a small new England town about to be engulfed by terror. 'Turn off the television - in fact, why don't you turn off all the lights except for the one over your favourite chair? ...