'Salem's Lot

'Salem's Lot

1975 • 668 pages

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'Salem's Lot is a small New England town with the usual quota of gossips, drinkers, weirdos and respectable folk. Of course there are tales of strange happenings - but not more than in any other town its size.

Ben Mears, a moderately successful writer, returns to the Lot to write a novel based on his early years, and to exorcise the terrors that have haunted him since childhood. The event he witnessed in the house now rented by a new resident. A newcomer with a strange allure. A man who causes Ben some unease as things start to happen: a child disappears, a dog is brutally killed - nothing unusual, except the list starts to grow.

Soon surprise will turn to bewilderment, bewilderment to confusion and finally to terror...

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October 29, 2022

While this is obviously an earlier work, it's just a darn good little vampire story, as well as a not-subtle commentary on the evil that can lay at the base of small town communities.

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Du Stephen King classique, lu quand j'étais adolescent.

December 30, 2016

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