'Turn off the television - in fact, why don't you turn off all the lights except for the one over your favourite chair? - and we'll talk about vampires here in the dim. I think I can make you believe in them.'Stephen King, from the Introduction. 'Salem's Lot is a small New England town with the usual quota of gossips, drinkers, weirdos and respectable folk. Of course there are tales of strange happenings - but not more than in any other town its size.Ben Mears, a moderately successful writer, returns to the Lot to write a novel based on his early years, and to exorcise the terrors that have haunted him since childhood. The event he witnessed in the house now rented by a new resident. A newcomer with a strange allure. A man who causes Ben some unease as things start to happen: a child disappears, a dog is brutally killed - nothing unusual, except the list starts to grow.Soon surprise will turn to bewilderment, bewilderment to confusion and finally to terror ...
| ISBN | 1444708147 | | Pages | 768 | | ISBN13 | 9781444708141
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 470 | | Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton General Division | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Hodder Paperback | | Height (mm) | 197 | | Format | Paperback | | Width (mm) | 130 | | Publication date | 10 Nov 2011 | | Spine width (mm) | 34 | | DEWEY | 813.6 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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'Mr. King's gift of storytelling is unrivaled. His ferocious imagination is unlimited.' -- George Pelecanos
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