read during my High School YearsI Remember: being distinctly unimpressed, but still enjoying it overall... efficient but unremarkable... the narrative seemed too thin, it lacked richness or resonance... a pair of wonderful villains, armed with some good lines... a kid vampire floating outside of ano...
Before Stephenie Meyer single-handedly ruined this horror sub-genre for me vampires were cool.'Salem's Lot holds the double honor of being my favorite vampire novel and my favorite Stephen King novel. King has written more excellent, complex, and lengthy novels since but 'Salem's Lot is the most me...
How can I ever relay how powerful this book was when I first read it in the year it was published? I read Carrie shortly before and liked it but not overly impressed. I then picked this up at the library and I was blown over. This was no mild mannered horror tale. There was not a moral at the end. T...
Also appears on The Screaming Nitpicker.Many years after living there with his aunt, author Ben Mears returns to Jerusalem's Lot (or 'salem's Lot, as many of the townspeople call it) to face his childhood fears of the imposing Marsten House and write another book. While he is there, strange things b...
City folk have a distinct misconception about small towns. We tend to believe that they are tranquil and innocent. That the denizens are wholesome and full of family values. But, we don't see the hidden rot that lurks beneath the sleepy facade.Stephen King does a lot to shatter that myth with 'Sa...
Haven't read this book in years but still remember much of it. A nice, creepy vampire story with real, evil vampires, not pretty boy angsty ones. Read it numerous times when I was in high school & it never failed to scare the heck out of me.
This book had me off of horror for over 15 years, and that's all I primarily read at the time. Scared me more than The Exorcist and Amityville Horror. (Books not movies - except for Exorcist the movies stank.) Very scary book.
No I'm not obsessed with Stephen King, though my reading as of late may make you think so. However I do believe he is a genius. I picked up Salem's lot because one of the main characters in Salem's Lot, father Callahan, becomes a major character in Wolves of the Calla which I am currently reading. ...
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