I loved the easy-to-read style of this King novel, as opposed to some of his later works. It was self-contained and not of a larger, interdimensional scope. The characters were engaging and the story progressed in a way that you could figure from the start. A fun read for any fans of the genre!

I went through this book fairly quickly:
This was my first time reading Stephen King, (crazy I know.) And let me just say; I WILL be reading more of King's books. (This book was crazy... And I loved it.)

A novel about a creepy town and deadly vampires. This should've received 5 stars from me, but I was a bit disappointed with this novel.

I swear I wanted to love this novel, but it was an okay read for me. An okay read from the King. I'm 100% sure that something is wrong with me, and not the novel.

My main problem with the novel would be the fact that it took almost 350 pages for it to become really interesting. The character and plot introduction felt 150 pages longer than it should've been. Aside from that, the only character that I really liked would be Ben Mears. I guess it's also a good thing that I really liked the main character, but it's also a bad thing that everyone else were a bit flat and lifeless.

The plot was not bad, and the execution was also quite good. This novel dealt with the mystery of the town more than the creepiness of the vampires. I like a good town mystery story, but the whole mystery of the town was not that interesting for me. I heard that this novel is quite similar to Dracula, so maybe I should've read Dracula first? Similar in a way that the novel doesn't revolve around the vampires, but of the setting. King is good with setting centered novels (Pet Sematary), so I'll be redundant and repeat that I'm probably the problem here, and not the novel.

3.5/5 stars. I made the review short because I know that I'll have a better opinion of this novel after my reread in the future. Looking back, I'm reminiscing violent scenes and picturing the ending vividly. As of now I can't bump it up to 4 stars because it didn't blow me away. I'd be lying if I say that I enjoyed this a lot. I enjoyed some parts, but the most were a bit boring for me. Hoping for a good reread in the future. Go ahead and read this novel, and don't trust my 3 star rating.

A slow build vampire story, which missed the mark for me!

Author Ben Mears returns to Salem's Lot, where he spent some of his childhood, to write his next book, but discovers something evil residing there.

This was my least favourite Stephen King novel so far. It was about vampires, so why was it so boring and uninteresting?! At least they didn't sparkle though...

'Salem's Lot did have a few interesting characters, I liked Matt Burke and Mark Petrie, and Ben Mears was okay, but there were way too many other characters! At the start I got them all mixed up, as they were all so one dimensional and flat, and there were just too many of them thrown at me, one after the other! When things started to happen to the town's people, I just didn't care! Call me cold hearted, but I just wasn't invested in their characters.

Barlow and Straker were scary, but they weren't in it enough! Barlow especially!

The pace.. what pace? This was slower than a snail! The introduction was far too long and dull, it was about 200 pages, or so it seemed! Urgh there was just so much unnecessary information, and the author regularly went off on little random tangents, which irritated me, like get to the story damnit!

I did like the Marsten house, that was scary, and well described! I also liked the part with the removal men, that gave me chills!
I feel that King did describe the small town accurately, and it was easy to imagine what it was like there. The few action scenes included were well done, I liked the part at the boarding house. I also liked the scene in Mark Petrie's bedroom, with his visitor at the window.

However, I struggled with this one. The narration was slow and dull, and I had to up the speed of the audio for the first time ever!

To sum up, if you cant scare or interest me with a freaking vampire story, then the book hasn't really done it's job has it? It pains me to rate this low, and everyone else seems to love it, but this book was just not for me

Stephen King's take on vampires. I didn't enjoy this book as much as CARRIE.

THE HEROES:
- An author. Of course. Self-insertion much? Notably the only character who has good sex in the novel. (I'm not complaining about the self-insertion... but I want you to know I notice what you're doing, Mr. King.) Ben Mears

- A priest. Irish-American. A drunk. Fed up with the suffering, abuse, rape, and hate he sees every day. When can he fight the Big Evil? Human evil is boring, apparently. This character elicited no small amount of anger from me. (See THE CHURCH) Father Callahan.

- A doctor. Jimmy Cody.

- A little boy, blessed by God with special powers to stand strong and face off against evil. Classic Stephen King. He's also surprisingly smart, confident, able to kick ass, unflinching, pragmatic, practical and quick-thinking. Mark Petrie.

- A mild-mannered bachelor English teacher. Smart and well-read, the Van Helsing of the group. Matt Burke.

THE HEROINE(?):
Perhaps, reader, you're asking, "Well, Carmen, where are the females?" There's only one female who could be put into the "heroine" group... or even the "main character" group, and that's Susan Norton. I have conflicted feelings about Susan and her actions.

Things I liked about Susan:
- She's a reader.

- She tells Ben what she needs and wants sexually.

- She stands up for Ben. Her mother hates Ben and wants her to date and marry some local boy. Susan, who still lives at home, really puts her foot down and tells her mother where to get off. She also makes plans to move out - even though she'll be struggling financially. A strong, powerful, human scene in which both Susan and Mrs. Norton act and are portrayed as human characters with both good and bad in them. Excellent writing on King's part. I think he does some amazing work on challenging mother-daughter relationships (e.g. Carrie).

Things I didn't like about Susan (and other people in relation to Susan...Ben, I'm looking at you....)
- Ben tells her at one point, "Eat your ice cream." AND SHE JUST DOES IT. Can't stand this sort of "submission to a guy I like" thing, especially and over all with food and drink. I know this fits in with the times (early 1970s) but if a man gave me orders ever in regards to what or when or where I was choosing to eat or NOT to eat, he would find himself in some very hot water. I know this statement by him was innocuous - with no malice on his part - kind of like when men tell me to "Smile, you'll look prettier!" But that also fills me with rage. Again, 1975, so I'm going to try and overlook this...just this once. (If it came from a villain or someone with any kind of evil characteristics, I wouldn't even mention this. It's only because Ben is the White Knight of the book that I feel it needs to be addressed.)

- Susan does something very stupid and (I feel) very out of character when she  decides to go hunt down the big, evil, ancient powerful vampire all by herself armed only with a broken fence slat.  Dumb, really dumb and out of character. But she's not the only one...

CHARACTERS DO STUPID THINGS FOR NO OTHER REASON THAN TO GIVE KING A WAY TO KILL THEM OFF:
-  Susan decides to go face Straker and Barlow by herself, armed with a flimsy piece of wood. People die as a result.

-  Father Callahan and Mark go to speak to Mark's parents without the others. People die as a result.

-  Ben stays and makes stakes while Jimmy and Mark check out the neighborhood. Right after Matt warned them not to split up. People die as a result.

-  When Jimmy figures out where Barlow is staying, instead of going back to tell the others and get them to go en masse, he decides to take Mark, age 12, and go take care of it himself with no other support or backup and WITHOUT telling anyone this crucial information. People die as a result.

I want to stress that these are rational, thinking, practical characters at all other times throughout the book. They just are overcome with a 'case of the dumb' every time King decides someone needs to die. It's very frustrating and very out-of-character. It goes like this: The group of heroes meets and discusses the situation intelligently, looking at it from all angles. Matt tells them not to split up. AS SOON AS they drive away from where Matt is staying, they decide to split up. Someone dies. They go to Matt's and tell him someone's dead. They discuss the situation intelligently and make smart plans. Matt warns them not to split up. They leave. They decide to split up. Someone dies... Wash rinse repeat. It's annoying. (This only happens in the last third of the book...the first 66% is more build-up and less fighting.)

THE CHURCH:
- This book is heavily Catholic. By the end, everyone who's still alive is wearing crucifixes and carrying holy water, whether they are Catholic or not. Even praying the Hail Mary or the Our Father appears to be an effective way to hurt vampires.

- The scenes where the heroes fight vampires using crosses, holy water, and prayer are AWESOME. Very well-written, very exciting. This is great writing by King. You can vividly see everything in your mind while reading. I especially enjoyed the glowing touch King gives holy objects. When calling on the power of the Lord, the cross you're holding or the holy water you've washed in starts to glow so brightly that you have to squint. This is a great visual touch that I think added a LOT to the book and to the final fight scenes. Wonderful idea by King and a powerful one.

- There is the pervasive idea that somehow the Church has become weaker because it now addresses issues that its parishioners deal with. I STRONGLY DISAGREE WITH THIS. The book is a callback to the ancient role of the Church as protector against things like vampires, witches, and demons. Modern problems (what King calls "evil with a lower case e") such as rape, child abuse, incest, suicide, and murder are seen as mundane. Father Callahan, the local priest is "bored" with the idea of facing and fighting this kind of evil. He longs for the day he can showdown "real" evil - and his wish is granted in the form of bloodsucking fiends who are working for Satan. This evil which garners so much scorn in this book IS real evil. And it's human evil. Since the Church is supposed to help humanity, I hardly think that it is "weakening" the Church to address these problems, or somehow getting off track with it's "real" purpose of fighting Satan, or something. BULLSHIT. I can see why King chose to include this tiny thread, after all, the Big Evil is what is the enemy in this particular time and place. But I don't appreciate the trivialization of human evil, and especially have rage towards any priest who thinks it's boring or a waste of his time.

VIEW OF SMALL TOWNS AS WRETCHED HIVES OF SCUM AND VILLAINY:
- Multiple times King describes small towns as festering cesspools with no redeeming values, which everyone should move away from at the earliest opportunity. I take umbrage at this idea. Good people live in small towns. Good people live in cities. Crimes happen in small towns. Crime happens in cities. Both small towns AND cities have their benefits and disadvantages, and I have NO idea what is going on with all the small-town hate King slathers on this novel like orange marmalade. I found it irrational and a bit disturbing.

- There's a whole chapter about how living in a small town, marrying your high school sweetheart, farming, and having kids is akin to death or slavery. This is very bleak and not at all true. I can see that this is not the path for EVERYBODY, but it's a perfectly valid way to live your life and certainly not the soul-destroying agony King thinks it is.

COWARD:
A certain character, who is smart and practical  Parkins, the Sheriff,  leaves town because he knows it's dead and he doesn't want to die. Ben promptly rips him a new one, calling him a coward and a gutless piece of shit. I completely disagreed with King here. Obviously the heroes are brave and stalwart by staying and vowing to fight the vampires and rid the town of evil, but I completely respect and sympathize for anyone smart enough to hightail it out of there. I felt like this was really judgmental and harsh. I admired the character AND his decision at the end to flee - it made a lot of sense to me and didn't make him any "less of a man" in my eyes.

GOOD AND EVIL:
Again, for people who haven't read King or think King writes about grimy cesspools without hope - that's not true (in this book). There are good men and women in this story. There is a powerful Evil and a lot of despair, death, blood, abuse etc. etc. but there is also good to combat it. I really like that King provides us with hope and also characters who are not disgusting (because, let's face it, the majority of the plethora of people in this book are awful people). Even though King writes here that Satan is a very real and powerful enemy, there's also the unwavering and unshakeable truth that God exists and that God is helping humans to fight Satan. Take that as you will.

VAMPIRE BITING AS SEX:
- Again, even in this "super-realistic, ugly, real" representation of vampires, I am still confronted with "and when he bit me it felt so good" and "when she bit me I had an erection" etc. etc. etc. That's okay - King does a good job with the rest of it, and I can see he was going more ancient legends meet Dracula with it, so I can forgive his (all in all, very slight) fetishizing of sucking blood. But I'd prefer for it to be absent, and for an author to do away with it for once.

SIDE CHARACTERS:
- There are so many side characters and tiny, tiny subplots or threads that occasionally I would have to flip backward in the book to figure out who the heck King was referencing. And then there were side characters and side plots that I really wanted more of, but King never ended up fleshing them out, and I was disappointed. It's a VERY busy book.

SLUT:
I am slightly concerned and bothered with the glimmer of "that-16-year-old-girl-is-a-slut-because-she-has-big-boobs-and-I-want-to-fuck-her" that runs through this novel. Ruthie (as far as I can see) never does anything to indicate she's sexually promiscuous, but men call her "slut" and hate her simply because she's gorgeous and they want to fuck her. Women hate her and call her "slut" because she's gorgeous and they know men want to fuck her. Unfair to Ruthie, who is a small, small, part of this book - we never see her thoughts or see any part of her world, we only look at her through other's eyes. I would throw a fit if I thought King was slut-shaming (or, more accurately , labeling-a-woman-who's-most-likely-a-virgin-as-a-slut) if I thought he, Stephen King, really believed that - but I don't. Instead, I think he's showing us how people judge others on appearances, and that's okay. So, it's fine - he gets a pass from me on this one. Although I think he could have addressed it and/or handled it better.

SPOILER:
The Staking of Susan. I found this a bit weird. Matt asks Ben if he's had sex with Susan. When Ben admits he has, Matt tells him that HE'S the one who has to stake Susan - no one else apparently - because he's taking the place of her husband. This didn't make ANY sense within the lore of the book - the rest of heroes stake vampires regardless of if they're related or not. I'm 99% sure anyone can stake any vampire for any reason with the same result. There was just this kind of creepy patriarchy vibe regarding Susan's corpse, though. And I have no idea why - the 'male relative must stake the vampire' thread is never mentioned again. Also, it really, really upset Ben to have to stake the woman he loved. Why couldn't one of the other men do it? WHY? Unnecessary. It felt like King was just trying to create drama without having any consistent lore to back it up.

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Tl;dr - Even though King didn't write a perfect book here, he wrote a dang good one. He's an excellent author - there are chapters in here (maybe 6 or 7 out of more than 100) that I know I could read over and over again just to admire how they sparkle in the light.

Of the two King books I've read on GR so far, Carrie is better than 'Salem's Lot, in my opinion. I plan to rank all of them as I read them, so stay tuned!

2023 reread:

And so I reread it again — thank you, Fiona, for a wonderful buddy read! — and this time it’s like I was transported back to being young and discovering this book for the first time. I loved it again.

This time I was really taken by King’s ability to paint the setting. His prose is excellent, and the way he brings the small town with all its secrets to life is almost unparalleled. He just has this way with words, zeroing right on to the defining qualities of people and places. Even a very young King understood the darkness of people and small isolated places. Because there’s not too much of a supernatural push is even required to unleash the inner monsters of people; the inner low level of nastiness in the ordinary folks can only be outweighed by the inner decency of the others.

“The Lot” chapters are what those looking for “a great American novel” need to read.

4.5 stars.

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2022 reread through older eyes:

In my teens and early 20s I inhaled King’s books. He was THE writer, to the point when I actually disappointed my university literature professor who would have liked if I had preferred Dostoyevsky instead. And as I got older, King’s books mostly held up, and some even gained extra appreciation (ahem, Needful Things, you got better as you got older).

‘Salem’s Lot is a very young King, apparently started when he was 25, and it shows. It’s still good though, and is full of all that I like in King’s stories as even back then he was first and foremost a gifted storyteller: the creepy vibe of small towns and their inhabitants, and nastiness that lives inside regular people even before any actual “big” evil comes into their lives. And if there’s a hint of immaturity there — well, duh, the guy wasn’t born 75.

I was still fascinated by his signature meanderings that tell stories within stories, and the gradual ratcheting up of tension that’s better than any pay-off there can be.

3.5-4 stars on reread which I’m rounding up because, well, whaddya want from Constant Reader of Uncle Stevie’s yarns here?

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Review from circa 2014 based on a few feverish reads of this book back in my teens:

There was a time once when vampires were ruthless predators and not the misunderstood brooding and essentially harmless creatures. Ahhhh, good old scary times...



Vampire stories have been around for a long time - after all, people love a good scare, and what is more terrifying than a monster showing up at night and sucking the life essence out of you? But leave it to Stephen King to turn the terror up a notch, add a whole new layer to it. How? Simply - using the winning formula that he continues to employ in the vast majority of his work.

In addition to showing us the monsters of the night, he also brings into the picture the monsters and the darkness that are already with us, that live in the deep dark recesses of everyone's soul.

""The town knew about darkness."
"The town has its secrets, and keeps them well."
"The town cares for devil's work no more than it cares for God's or man's. It knew darkness. And darkness was enough."

The eponymous 'Salem's Lot is a small town in Maine, and it is not a stranger to secrets and darkness. It's quaint and pastoral on the surface, but once you look deeper you are bound to discover what lurks behind its respectable surface. And trust me, that's the discoveries that you can easily go without for the darkness of the human soul as presented by Stephen King beats everything that any monster or boogeyman can ever send your way. The small town of 'Salem's Lot can boast your usual lies, bullying, corruption, and prejudice - and spices it up with well-hidden child abuse, violence, and murders. Not so quaint, is it?

It is this portrayal of everyday people's secrets, of the towns being almost like living breathing organisms that is one of the big reasons why I am a huge fan of Stephen King's works.



From the very first pages of the novel we know that some terrible fate made 'Salem's Lot a ghost town with apparently only a couple of survivors. It doesn't take the reader long to realize, as we go back in time to see how the events unfolded, that the mysterious menacing Marsten House welcomed new evil that tends to lurk at night, floating past your (hopefully, tightly shut) windows.

The story itself is rather straightforward, steadily moving along to its almost-conclusion that we have glimpsed in the first few pages, and we watch with bated breath as our bunch of good guys - Ben, Mark, Susan, Matt - are trying to take on the supernatural horror. Oh, and did I forget Father Callahan? A high-five from the Dark Tower universe, Father!

King is excellent with the plotting and the pacing (since this was only his second novel, he was still a stranger to writing larger-than-life brick-sized tomes). The story never lags, the suspense and sense of foreboding are rampant, and there are quite a few truly nailbiting situations. Nothing distracts the reader from the vampire story unfolding on the background of small-town horrors. There are no heavy-handed lessons to be learned, no deep morals to take out of the story - all we get is a thrilling and quite scary ride that may make you (a) sleep with a light on, and (b) be very careful about who you invite into your home.

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Also posted on my blog.

‘Salem’s Lot is Stephen King’s second novel. Considering how many stories he has released - and depending on how you count them... SK has 70 some novels and 200 some short stories - this one is VERY early in his amazing career. He definitely didn’t suffer from the sophomore slump.

I used to think Salem’s Lot (note I didn’t get the apostrophes correct either) was about witches - somehow related to the Salem witch trials. After learning about Father Callahan’s origins in The Dark Tower series I discovered that this was actually a vampire story. In fact, out of my veeerry long TBR for SK this moved way up the list after I read The Dark Tower. Even though Father Callahan was my least favorite member of the ka-tet I still wanted to learn more. I really should have read this one first, but oh well. (I should have read the Bill Hodges trilogy before The Outsider too - haha)

The story starts out kinda slow really. SK introduces a lot of characters and tries to give you a feel for the small town of Jerusalem’s Lot (shortened by locals to ‘Salem’s Lot). There are a lot of characters to keep track of - but only a handful major characters. Ben Mears - a thrice published author - grew up in SL, and has returned to write a new novel - and to chase away some demons from his youth. He meets and very quickly romantically befriends Susan Norton. Their relationship takes off fast - it was the 70s I guess

“At three in the morning the blood runs slow and thick, and slumber is heavy. The soul either sleeps in blessed ignorance of such an hour or gazes about itself in utter despair. There is no middle ground.”

Once again, I am left speechless by King. I am without speech. I think that when a period of times passes by wherein you haven’t read much classic King, you kinda forget what he is capable of. Rereading The Shining and ‘Salem’s Lot these past two months has really reinforced for me why King is the goddamn Master.

No one writes a small town like King. The way he carefully crafts and builds a town and all its residents is incredible, and ‘Salem’s Lot is one of his best. To learn about and to become part of this small town, only to watch it disintegrate and fall victim to a dominant evil force, is one of the most addictive reading experiences! It’s a slow burner, but it really needs to be in order for King to gradually increase the dread and terror.

October is the optimal time to read ‘Salem’s Lot, as it means you’ll pretty much be reading it in real time. The descriptions of autumn are some of my favourite pieces of King’s writing. He just nails it. He honestly just nails this entire book in my opinion.

Prior to my reread I often thought of Ben and Susan in a negative light, like “oh Salem’s Lot is awesome, shame about some of the characters..” but this time around, I appreciate them more. Susan may be quite one-dimensional but I really admired the way she stood up to her mother at times. As for Ben, he isn’t the most exciting either, but he doesn’t shy away when the horrors unfold, he’s pretty badass.

And Mark Petrie!! Still one of my favourite King child characters. He goes through so much, some of his sections really bring me the feels. And shout-out to Father Callahan, as well! And Jimmy... and Matt... the whole crew basically!

I also had forgotten how chilling this book could be. Matt hearing someone upstairs... the childish giggle... the visitor at the window... the knives... I loved how spooked I felt at times!

Truly a favourite King of mine. 5 stars.

Reread October 2023. Just as brilliant.

Spooky Suspense!

Small backstory:

Ben Mears is headed back to Jerusalem's Lot (a/k/a Salem's Lot) to fight some old ghosts that he experienced there when he was a kid. Ben is a horror author now and he wants some inspiration for his book from the town where he grew up. But nothing seems to have changed much especially the old house that overlooks the town - Marsten House.

When Ben learns that the old house has been bought by someone that the town barely knows his suspicious meter goes up as why would someone from out of town want the old ramshackle house and when Ben investigates a little more he learns there is quite a bit of mystery surrounding the new owners and it is worrisome of what they could be up to with owning the Marsten House. Though what is even more worrisome is when he finds out that they are more than what they appear to be and what kind of plans they have for the people in the town!

Thoughts:

I read this book way back in the late 80's and my memory of the story was kind of fuzzy so I decided to do a reread of it to get the story more clear in my head. I remember that it was spooky when I first read it back then and wanted to see if I still thought it was spooky this time around too which I found it to be more suspenseful and had tons of spookiness that gave me shivers along my skin!

The Master of Horror delivers a vampire masterpiece story that digs deep down into your psyche and doesn't want to let you go. I loved all the characters in this story and there are way more than a few to keep track of but the main ones of the story give a grand performance that kept me turning my kindle pages at turbo speed to find out what was going to happen next!

This book is definitely staying on my favorites shelf and probably should be read around the Halloween season for extra vampire flavor! Giving this book five "Vampire Scary" stars!

n  “Thin clouds form, and the shadows lengthen out. They have no breadth, as summer shadows have; there are no leaves on the trees or fat clouds in the sky to make them thick. They are gaunt, mean shadows that bite the ground like teeth. As the sun nears the horizon, its benevolent yellow begins to deepen, to become infected, until it glares an angry inflamed orange. It throws a variegated glow over the horizon.”n

Salem’s Lot is the story of a small town being overtaken by vampires, and a brave band of people who come together to fight an ancient evil. The story centers around Ben Mears. Ben has returned to Salem’s Lot in hopes that exploring the history of the Marsten House, an old mansion long the subject of rumor and speculation, will help him cast out his personal devils and provide inspiration for his new book. But when two young boys venture into the woods, and only one returns alive, Ben begins to realise that something sinister is at work, in fact, his hometown is under siege from forces of darkness far beyond his imagination. And only he, with a small group of allies, can hope to contain the evil that is growing within the borders of this small and fragile town….

Salem’s Lot builds slowly and this is where Stephen King uses his time to do what he does best, build great characters and create fascinating back stories. The town of Salem’s lot feels like a soap opera with characters that will make you feel nostalgic and disgusted at the same time. They beat their children, cheat on their husbands, drink and bully. Yet its hard to pin them on a good vs bad board, there are shades of grey with everyone you meet.

Once this entire foundation has been laid Stephen King ups the ante and unveils the full horror of the vampires and it unravels like a dream!

Salem’s Lot is a brilliant work of vampire/horror fiction. It is genuinely scary at times, it has the ability to raise the hairs on your arms and neck and gives you a genuine sense of foreboding.

This town is more a charcter than a setting and you realise the evil man can do is more destructive to society than a thousand year old vampire. It’s the townspeople that drive the action and turn Salem’s Lot into an apocalypse.

This is a rich story full of great themes about society, the power of faith, men vs boys and even love and salvation.

It was an absolute dream to read!
I Highly recommend

Stephen King se toma su tiempo para presentarnos escenarios y personajes, nada nuevo en él. Hace años que había empezado esta novela en concreto, la segunda en ser publicada por King, y la había dejado aparcada.
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No debía ser el momento porque me ha parecido desde el inicio una lectura aterradora por todo lo que se va intuyendo y nos va mostrando luego muy poco a poco. Tarda en hacer presencia todo el misterio que rodea a ese pueblo fantasma, Salem's Lot, pero créanme cuando les digo que vale muchísimo la pena ser pacientes.

Bean Mears, decide volver al pueblo donde vivió parte de su infancia con su tía para exorcizar viejos demonios que lo asolan desde que hizo una apuesta con su grupo de amigos. Solo había que entrar en la imponente casa de los Marsten que como si de un faro se tratara posa su mirada sobre el pueblo, y llevarse un objeto con él como prueba de su valentía, parece fácil, ¿no?.
Desde entonces, terribles pesadillas lo asolan cada noche y volver al pueblo no parece haber sido la mejor de las decisiones.
Allí conocerá a Susan y a otro buen puñado de habitantes que lo ayudarán en la búsqueda del mal que parece habitar la casa desde tiempos lejanos.
Conoceremos su pasado y su presente. Y es que parece ser un imán para el mal que extiende sus raíces sin parar como la mala hierba.

Seremos testigos de como progresivamente el pueblo se irá sumiendo en la más profunda oscuridad.
King nos va relatando como se va instaurando el caos en cada casa, cada familia. ¿Qué son esos chirridos que se oyen tras los cristales? ¿Dónde está la gente? Extrañas desapariciones y siniestros ruidos acechan al caer la noche.

Este es el libro perfecto para aquellos que busquen historias de vampiros en su sentido más clásico. Respeta el folklore de la mítica criatura de la noche, tiene unas descripciones de lo más escalofriantes y mortuorias, todo envuelto en una atmósfera gótica alucinante. Definitivamente uno de mis libros favoritos del autor.
Los invito a ver mi reseña más detallada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgT2j...