Ben Mears has returned to Jerusalem's Lot in the hopes that living in an old mansion?? long the subject of town lore?? will help him cast out his own devils and provide inspiration for his new book. But when two young boys venture into the woods and only one comes out alive?? M" begins to realize that there may be something sinister at work and that his hometown is under siege by forces of darkness far beyond his control.
Amazon.com ReviewStephen King's second book?? '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