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Stephen King's second book, 'Salem's Lot--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 otT
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Stephen King's second book, 'Salem's Lot--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 Lotis great fun to read, and has been very influential in the horror genre. But it's also a sly piece of social commentary. As King said in 1983, "In 'Salem's Lot, the thing that really scared me was not vampires, but the town in the daytime, the town that was empty, knowing that there were things in closets, that there were people tucked under beds, under the concrete pilings of all those trailers. And all the time I was writing that, the Watergate hearings were pouring out of the TV.... Howard Baker kept asking, 'What I want to know is, what did you know and when did you know it?' That line haunts me, it stays in my mind.... During that time I was thinking about secrets, things that have been hidden and were being dragged out into the light." Sounds quite a bit like the idea behind his 1998 novel of a Maine hamlet haunted by unsightly secrets, Bag of Bones. --Fiona Webster
"One of the best vampire stories of them all, I've re-read this one numerous times over the years. King's towns make for great sightseeing but you wouldn't want to live there...as usual there's a high mortality rate."
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Kasariestetiikka on hassu juttu. Vaikka en itse kasvanut kyseisellä aikakaudella, katsoin lapsuudessani jatkuvasti taidepaskan ohella 80-luvulla tehtyjä kauhuelokuvia. Niissä oli aina tiettyä audiovisuaalista estetiikkaa. Juuri oikea määrä filmikohinaa, puun vanhentunut tekstuuri hylätyissä mökeissä ja vetiset kivet kellareissa, ruutukuvioiset pöytäliinat takapihan grillijuhlissa... Ja kaiken päällä tuntui aina leijuvan jokin ajaton ja hienojakoinen pöly, haj"
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"Author: Stephen King
Publication Date: 1975
Primary Vampire: Kurt Barlow
(Kurt Barlow, as portrayed by Rutger Hauer in the 2004 mini-series Salem's Lot)"
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