Salem's Lot

Author: Stephen King
Publisher: Pocket
Publication Date: 1999-09-01
Features: Stephen King's second book, 'Salem's Lot (1975)'—about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula—has two elements that he uses effectively in later novels: a small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational, good-hearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil.