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- Author
- Stephen King
- First published
- 1975
- Editions
- 105
- Subjects
- Catholic Church, arson, Great Depression, hitmen, Horror fiction, City and town life, Cuentos de terror, Fiction
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Key facts
- Author
- Stephen King
- Cover artist
- Dave Christensen
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Horror
- Published
- October 17, 1975
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Publication place
- U.S.
Article
'Salem's Lot is a 1975 American horror novel by author Stephen King. It was his second published novel. 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.
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 novel was nominated for the World Fantasy Award in 1976 and the Locus Award for the All-Time Best Fantasy Novel in 1987.
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