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Going to ‘Salem’s Lot For Halloween
I visit Stephen King’s book every fall. It’s like an old friend. I have to be careful, though — it can bite.
*Spoiler Alert:
I will be talking about key plot points and the book’s conclusion. If you do not wish to have the story spoiled — I certainly wouldn’t! — you should probably not read any further.
When fall rolls around, there are things I do to usher in the season:
- Take a walk to enjoy the changing colors of the leaves and smell the fall air,
- Get honeycrisp apples and eat them with cinnamon sugar on them,
- Watch It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!, and
- Read ‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King.
I love ‘Salem’s Lot. I say that, but that’s a vast understatement. It’s one of my favorite books. It was the second Stephen King book I ever read, after The Shining (love that one too, by the way). But ‘Salem’s Lot resonated with me in a way few books have.
The characters in ‘Salem’s Lot came alive for me in a way characters from other books rarely do. I walked the streets of Jerusalem’s Lot with Ben Mears, Mark Petrie, and the others as evening fell, and time grew short and the vampires awakened. I feared…
