Products specifications
Author
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Stephen King |
Pub Date
|
04/10/2007 |
Binding
|
Paperback / softback |
Pages
|
768 |
Country
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United Kingdom |
Dewey
|
813.54 |
GBPPrice
|
10.99 |
Availability
|
Available |
AR Level
|
Upper Years, Book Level: 5.4 |
With a stunning new cover look, King's chilling classic of a small new England town about to be engulfed in terror.
Turn off the television - in fact, why don't you turn off all the lights except for the one over your favourite chair? - and we'll talk about vampires here in the dim. I think I can make you believe in them. Stephen King, from the Introduction.
'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 . . .