Ben has returned to 'the Lot' to write a book about the long-abandoned Marsten House, where he had a bad experience as a child when he saw a hanging ghost. He quickly becomes friends with high school teacher Matt Burke and strikes up a romantic relationship with Susan Norton, a young college graduate with ambitions of leaving town. The book is dedicated to King's daughter Naomi.īen Mears, a writer, has returned to Jerusalem's Lot, Maine after 25 years to try to write his next novel. A feature film adaptation directed by Gary Dauberman is currently in production. 'Salem's Lot has been adapted into a 1979 two-part miniseries directed by Tobe Hooper and a 2004 television miniseries directed by Mikael Salomon. I have a special cold spot in my heart for it!' They are kind of a dying organism right now.

In 1987 he told Phil Konstantin in The Highway Patrolman magazine: 'In a way it is my favorite story, mostly because of what it says about small towns. In his June 1983 Playboy interview, the interviewer mentioned that because it was his favorite, King was planning a sequel, but King has said on his website that because The Dark Tower series already continued the narrative in Wolves of the Calla and Song of Susannah, he felt there was no longer a need for a sequel. In two separate interviews in the 1980s, King said that, of all his books, 'Salem's Lot was his favorite. The novel was nominated for the World Fantasy Award in 1976 and the Locus Award for the All-Time Best Fantasy Novel in 1987. The town is revisited in the short stories ' Jerusalem's Lot' and ' One for the Road', both from King's story collection Night Shift (1978).

The story involves a writer named Ben Mears who returns to the town of Jerusalem's Lot (or 'Salem's Lot for short) in Maine, where he lived from the age of five through nine, only to discover that the residents are becoming vampires. 'Salem's Lot is a 1975 horror novel by American author Stephen King.

Salem lot movie villain