Author: Stephen King
Translator: Kichan Han
Publisher: Hwanggeumgaji
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About This Book
Stephen King's second book, 'Salem's Lot (1975)--about the slow takeover of an
insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's
Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels: a
small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each
other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational,
goodhearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil.
Simply taken as a contemporary vampire novel, 'Salem's Lot is great fun to read,
and has been very influential in the horror genre. But it's also a sly piece of
social commentary. As King said in 1983, "In 'Salem's Lot, the thing that really
scared me was not vampires, but the town in the daytime, the town that was
empty, knowing that there were things in closets, that there were people tucked
under beds, under the concrete pilings of all those trailers. And all the time I
was writing that, the Watergate hearings were pouring out of the TV.... Howard
Baker kept asking, 'What I want to know is, what did you know and when did you
know it?' That line haunts me, it stays in my mind.... During that time I was
thinking about secrets, things that have been hidden and were being dragged out
into the light." Sounds quite a bit like the idea behind his 1998 novel of a
Maine hamlet haunted by unsightly secrets, Bag of Bones.
--Fiona Webster
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