Title: Salem’s Lot
Author: Stephen King
Genre: Horror
Pages: 458
Rating: 3 of 5
This is a good, solid vampire story with no sparkly, angsty heartthrobs in sight, just menacing, bloodthirsty fiends. I’m not a huge fan of Stephen King as he uses more profanity and semi-explicit descriptions of abuse and all around morally scuzzy behavior than I usually like in my reading, but the man can definitely tell a story. There’s nothing terribly original here, but King makes good use of all the tropes as he imagines what it would be like if a Dracula-like vampire came to a small American town (in Maine, of course) in the 1970’s. If you’re a fan of King (or classic vampires) it’s definitely worth a read.
The copy that I borrowed from the library came with this added “bonus”:
Yep, there appears to be a little blood spattered across some of the pages. Ew…I can do without that kind of “special effects!”
Joelendil's Kingdom of Books 
Well that’s pretty much the best title ever! You sold me at “non-sparkly” 😉 I’m somewhere in the middle with King- he comes up with great stories, but am not always a huge fan of the pared-down style he uses. hehe I do wonder what happened to this book though- did an actual vampire get hold of it or did someone just decide to play a prank?
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