When writer Ben Mears returns to the quiet town of Jerusalem’s Lot, he discovers that a growing darkness is taking hold of its residents. As people begin to vanish and reappear changed, a sinister presence spreads through the community. In Stephen King’s Salem's Lot, small-town life turns into a nightmare—exploring fear, corruption, and the slow, creeping rise of evil beneath the surface of everyday life.
Date: 1975 (United States)
Length: ~439 pages (varies by edition)
Cultural impact: ~3.000.000 copies (estimates)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
"Without question the scariest Stephen King book I have ever read, and I can understand why the author himself has noted on several occasions that it is his favorite of all his novels" — Richard Chizmar, acclaimed horror author and frequent King collaborator
"'Salem's Lot represents a huge evolution in King's talent... King seems to be channeling his inner poet, with picturesque similes and metaphors on almost every page" — Warren Pawlowski, literary commentator
"In a way it is my favorite story, mostly because of what it says about small towns" — Stephen King, bestselling American horror novelist
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