{"id":2193,"date":"2021-03-05T17:24:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T22:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=2193"},"modified":"2021-01-03T17:32:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T22:32:59","slug":"essential-vampire-series-salems-lot-by-stephen-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=2193","title":{"rendered":"Essential Vampire Series: ‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Salem’s Lot, published in 1975, was an archetypical, but very popular vampire horror novel that embraced Pre-Anne Rice era traditions of a monstrous vampire feeding off of humanity. The book’s Wikipage is here<\/a>. Again, the book is much more adult in nature, but is widely considered an essential vampire book, and most people are introduced to it in their teens or early twenties. -Michele<\/em><\/p>\n

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Salem’s Lot<\/em>\u00a0by Stephen King<\/p>\n

Pocket Books, 1999\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

ISBN: 0671039741<\/p>\n

Availability: New or Used<\/p>\n

Some would say that\u00a0Salem’s Lot<\/em>, Stephen King\u2019s second novel, published in 1975, is really the book that introduced him to the world.\u00a0 Ostensibly, it offers itself as a vampire tale about a writer named Ben Mears who returns to a small town in Maine called Jerusalem’s Lot,\u00a0 The\u00a0town soon becomes infected by vampires, and Mears leads a varied group who must battle them.\u00a0 King has called this take on vampires his way of updating Dracula, but it reads as more than just a subgenre stab in Bram Stoker’s direction.\u00a0 The book actually feels less like a vampire tale than a whirlwind description of a small town that becomes the victim of a European antique dealer living in a house that overlooks the town. \u00a0Setting is important here, for the panorama of a small town permeates the entire work.\u00a0 Stylistically,\u00a0Salem\u2019s Lot<\/em>\u00a0is set apart from other vampire tales. The story flashes from one character to another and the reader gets to know the individual inhabitants of the town. Readers advisory note:\u00a0Salem\u2019s Lot<\/em>\u00a0may especially appeal to readers of vampire tales who are looking for more than the typical straightforward approach, since setting becomes a character in its own right. Highly recommended for public library collections.<\/p>\n

Media connections:<\/p>\n

Salem\u2019s Lot, 1979 television miniseries<\/p>\n

Salem\u2019s Lot , 2004 television miniseries<\/p>\n

Salem’s Lot. 1995 UK radio miniseries<\/p>\n

Contains: violence.<\/p>\n

Review by William Simmons<\/p>\n

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Our Essential Vampire Series is an attempt to highlight the history of Horror conventions by topic through both MonsterLibrarian and the history or the genres.<\/p>\n

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