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An edition of 'Salem’s Lot (1975)

'Salem's lot

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  • ★★★★ 4.10 ·
  • 71 Ratings
  • 745 Want to read
  • 38 Currently reading
  • 155 Have read

Stephen King's second novel,'Salem's Lot, is the story of a mundane town under siege from the forces of darkness. Considered one of the most terrifying vampire novels ever written, it cunningly probes the shadows of the human heart -- and the insular evils of small-town America.
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Pocket Books
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English
Pages
631

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Subjects
Catholic Church, arson, Great Depression, hitmen, Horror fiction, City and town life, Cuentos de terror, Fiction, Vampires, Adapted for Television, horror tales, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Authors, Fiction, occult & supernatural, Fiction, horror, Authors, fiction, Large type books, Vampires, fiction, New england, fiction, Maine, fiction, Écrivains, Romans, nouvelles, Polish language materials, Literatura grozy amerykańska, Tłumaczenia polskie, Powieść amerykańska, American Horror tales, crucifixes, rosaries, devotional medals, Douay–Rheims Bible, myocardial infarction, short stories, manservants, Puritans, Madonna and Child, inverted crosses, runes, De Vermis Mysteriis, occult, rail fence ciphers, bastards, suicide, inbreeding, witchcraft, cults, eastern whip-poor-wills, nosferatu, undead
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Places
Maine, U.S.A., Jerusalem's Lot, Marsten House, Austria, Mexico, Falmouth, Chapelwaite, Preacher's Corners, Cumberland County
Times
1970s, 1850, 1789

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Salem's Lot
Nov 01, 2011, Hodder & Stoughton, HODDER STOUGHTON
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'Salem's Lot
2011-12, Anchor Books
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Miasteczko Salem
2003, Prószyński i S-ka
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'Salem's Lot
2003?, Pocket Books
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'Salem's lot
1999, Pocket Books
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Salem's Lot
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'Salem's Lot
1992, Hodder & Stoughton
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Brennen muss Salem
1990, Heyne
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El misterio de Salem’s Lot
1987, Plaza & Janés
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’Salem’s Lot
1981, New English Library
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'Salem's Lot
1981?, New American Library
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Table of Contents

Author's Note
Introduction
Prologue
PART I
The Marsten House
PART II
The Emperor of Ice Cream
PART III
The Deserted Village
Epilogue

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"Pocket Books a division of Simon and Schuster, Inc."--Title page verso.
"Newly introduced by the author"--Cover.

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New York
Genre
Fiction.

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Library of Congress
CPB Box no. 1799 vol. 15

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mass market paperback
Pagination
631 p. ;
Number of pages
631

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OL3548095M
ISBN 10
0671039741
LCCN
2001554437
OCLC/WorldCat
42794157

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Author Ben Mears returns to ‘Salem's Lot to write a book about a house that has haunted him since childhood only to find his isolated hometown infested with vampires. While the vampires claim more victims, Mears convinces a small group of believers to combat the undead.
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