’Salem’s Lot (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Stephen King
- First Published: 1975
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—occult
- Time of Work: October, 1972-June, 1975
- Setting: The fictional Maine town of Jerusalem’s Lot, neighboring Maine communities, and Los Zapatos, Mexico
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1970’s
- Locales: Mexico
The Plot
Ben Mears, a successful novelist, returns home to ’Salem’s Lot, a two-hundred-year-old Maine town of thirteen hundred residents. He is fascinated to discover that the old Marsten house still dominates the Lot. He meets Susan Norton, a young painter, and while on dates, he tells her of his horrifying experience there when he was nine years old. Hubert Marsten had murdered his wife, booby-trapped the house, and hanged himself in an upstairs room. Several years later, on a dare, young Ben had climbed the stairs, entered the room, and found Hubert, a green, puffy-eyed...
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