'Salem's Lot
by:
Stephen King (author)
Stephen King's second novel, "'Salem's Lot, " is the story of a mundane town under siege from the forces of darkness. Considered one of the most terrifying vampire novels ever written, it cunningly probes the shadows of the human heart -- and the insular evils of small-town America.
Stephen King's second novel, "'Salem's Lot, " is the story of a mundane town under siege from the forces of darkness. Considered one of the most terrifying vampire novels ever written, it cunningly probes the shadows of the human heart -- and the insular evils of small-town America.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780671039745 (0671039741)
Publish date: November 1st 1999
Publisher: Pocket Books
Pages no: 631
Edition language: English
„Brennen muss Salem“ ist Stephen Kings zweiter veröffentlichter Roman. Er erschien 1975; den deutschsprachigen Buchmarkt erreichte er 1979. Die erste deutsche Version wurde in Österreich verlegt; die Übersetzung lieferten Ilse Winger und Christoph Wagner. Sie verwendeten dabei Formulierungen, die fü...
Somehow, one of my all-time favorite classic horror stories just didn’t stand up to time and my adult reading habits on this re-read. The scenes I most enjoyed as a teen were as creepily nightmarish as I remembered – [spoiler] Mike Ryerson digging Danny Glick’s grave, Danny at Mark’s window, the boy...
Not my favorite King. I think the biggest thing is that that book doesn't give you a chance to rest between scenes. Also the women were given very little importance I felt and done away with in this book. It would have been great to have some of them for the final fight or the list of survivors. I a...
A struggling author returns to the town he grew up in to revisit some skeletons of his past for a new book. He finds romance, friendship and more evil then he can deal with as townspeople start disappearing. Stephen King can really describe a setting and get you settled in. He gets the reader th...
I've read this book more times than any other King novel to date aside from The Shining and The Stand. One would think my enamoration with this 1975 novel about vampires taking over a small town in Maine would lessen or die down due to reading it so many times, but in fact I always find more things ...