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Salem's Lot
'Salem's Lot is Stephen King's second published novel, a vampire story set in the fictional Maine town of Jerusalem's Lot. Writer Ben Mears returns to the hometown he left as a boy, hoping to finish a book about the decaying Marsten House that frightened him in childhood. He finds a place of gossip, quiet resentments and ordinary routines, then slowly realizes that something is feeding on it. King sets Bram Stoker's Dracula inside a believable American community, and the horror grows from how a town fails to notice its own destruction. It has also become one of the Stephen King books made into movies and television miniseries. It remains a foundational title for modern horror and for King's Maine fiction.