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'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 forever—Susan, whose love for Ben could not protect her; Father Callahan, the bad priest who put his eroded faith to one last test; and Mark, a young boy who sees his fantasy world become reality and ironically proves the best equipped to handle the relentless nightmare of 'Salem's Lot.
This is a rare novel, almost hypnotic in its unyielding suspense, which builds to a climax of classic terror. You will not forget the town of 'Salem's Lot nor any of the people who used to live there.
Special Features For This Deluxe Special Edition:
• an introduction by Stephen King
• an afterword by Clive Barker
• many deleted scenes that were cut from the original manuscript
• the short stories "Jerusalem's Lot" and "One for the Road"
• deluxe oversized design (7 inches X 10 inches) featuring two color interior printing as part of the page design
• printed on a heavy interior specialty paper stock that is much thicker than the paper in a normal trade edition
• custom-made slipcase for the Gift Edition, custom-made traycase for the Numbered Artist Edition, and custom-made three piece traycase for the Deluxe Lettered Artist Edition
• epic wrap-around full color dust jacket artwork by David Palumbo
• a different full color dust jacket for the Numbered Artist Edition painted by David Palumbo
• full color interior paintings by David Palumbo
• interior artwork will be printed on a heavy glossy stock and tipped into the book
• an original map of the town drawn by Glenn Chadbourne exclusively for this special edition
• signature sheet artwork for all three editions by Glenn Chadbourne
• high-quality endpapers and fine bindings
• an exclusive reproduction of the first reader's letter to point out the Father "Cody" error and several internal memos from Doubleday about changing the pricing after the first edition of the book was already printed
• extremely collectible print run that is a tiny fraction of the TENS OF MILLIONS of copies of this novel you've seen in bookstores over the years!
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In postmodern terms, Salem's Lot is a brilliant celebration of Gothic fiction and the monster figure. Its use of pastiche in regard to Dracula revives the latter work, and draws from its tradition in order to create a new vampire tale, at once new and old, familiar and creative.The best way to approach this book is arguably through King's own description of the general body of his fiction; that is to say as a literary equivalent of a big Mac and french fries from McDonald's. This is accurate because the book is extremely easy to read, probably on account of the two dimensional aspect of King's characters. Many of his recurrent character types are present in Salem's Lot including Marc Peatry as the wise child and Benjamin Mears as the boyish man.This, however, is, by no means, due to a limitation in the author's style or a shortcoming in his ability to create complexity within his characters. Quite the opposite, just like Dickens, King uses the two-dimensional aspect of his characters as a trademark and a means to focus on the ideas and plot of his works. Salem's Lot, for instance, merges the gothic tradition of Dracula and the pop culture of comic books with all their new traits of the monster figure in general and the vampire in particular. As far as my own opinion is concerned, Salem's Lot is not my favorite King's work and, by no means, the peak of his horror fiction, but it remains a very interesting and engaging revival of the vampire horror narrative.
Buen libro de vampiros, muy desesperanzador y con un final amargo. Lo disfruté, aunque no me enganché hasta la mitad. Recomendado.
no me suelen gustar los que son de desarrollo lento pero en este caso se construye muy bien la tensión. tiene escenas realmente aterradoras. el final me dejó gusto a que quería ver qué más pasó. increíble como está escrito, como siempre.