'Salem's Lot
Ranked #3 in King, Ranked #5 in Scary — see more rankings.
'Salem's Lot is a small New England town with white clapboard houses, tree-lined streets, and solid church steeples. That summer in 'salem's Lot was a summer of homecoming and return; spring burned out and the land lying dry, crackling underfoot. Late that summer, Ben Mears returned to 'salem's Lot hoping to cast out his own devils and found instead a new, unspeakable horror.
A stranger had also come to the Lot, a stranger with a secret as old as evil, a secret that would wreak irreparable harm on those he touched and in turn on those they loved.
All would be changed... more
A stranger had also come to the Lot, a stranger with a secret as old as evil, a secret that would wreak irreparable harm on those he touched and in turn on those they loved.
All would be changed... more
Reviews and Recommendations
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Rae Paoletta @sarahpaol Love this book (Source)
Bethanye McKinney Blount I read this for the first time when I was 10 — great parenting at work — but it was almost scarier to reread as an adult. (Source)
Rankings by Category
'Salem's Lot is ranked in the following categories:
- #68 in Autumn
- #50 in Catalog
- #80 in Evil
- #34 in Halloween
- #6 in Horror
- #9 in Jerusalem
- #54 in Monsters
- #76 in Occult
- #43 in Pets
- #25 in Sci-Fi Horror
- #6 in Stephen King
- #91 in Supernatural
- #45 in Vampire
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