In this vein, the standout character in this novel was ‘salem’s Lot itself, the heart of a place ultimately being its people. He’s really good at incorporating minor details about the thoughts and feelings of characters, sometimes crude, that perhaps don’t matter to the overall plot, but bring about something honest about the hearts and minds of people.
This book contains a lot of the hallmarks of what I love about King’s writing, particularly the frank representations of everyday people. It’s kind of surreal to have seen the bizarre path that character’s life went down without having read their relatively grounded origins. Nevertheless, it’s a book I’d been meaning to finally dig into for a while now, especially since I finished reading The Dark Tower series years ago, which inherits one of the major characters from this book.
It being over 40 years old at this point, it also gets talked about in horror circles, so I’ve had my share of exposure to some of its elements. This is one of those novels that feels almost impossible to go into completely blind, especially having grown up in a house with a shelf full of King books. Though at first these changes are simple curiosities, the disappearance of two local boys is a sinister portents of things to come, as the town’s new residents have brought with them a nightmarish blight that threatens to consume the town whole. He has returned to the town, where he spent a number of years growing up, in order to face some old childhood fears and continue working on a new novel inspired by the source of those fears, the foreboding and abandoned old Marsten House, which looms over the town on a hill.Īlthough his arrival in the Lot is met fairly warmly, a mysterious new pair of residents have arrived at the same time, lodging in that decrepit old mansion that Ben can’t help fixating on. Set in the small fictional town of Jerusalem’s Lot, Maine, the story follows a young author named Benjamin Mears. ‘Salem’s Lot is a 1975 horror novel by Stephen King, and it is the prolific author’s second novel.
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