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’SALEM’S LOT STEPHEN KING USA - 1975

JESS PEACOCK

In 1979 many young, impressionable horror fans settled down in front of the television to watch – through trembling fingers – the highly anticipated CBS miniseries ’Salem’s Lot. Presented in two parts, the 184-minute vampire story directed by Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) was based on Stephen King’s 439-page book that some consider the Great American Horror Novel. Released October 17, 1975, by Doubleday, it tells the tale of Ben Mears, a writer returning to Jerusalem’s Lot, the small town in which he spent a portion of his childhood. His goal, aside from sorting out a particularly nasty demon from his youth, is to write a novel based around the ominous Marsten House, a decrepit, long-abandoned structure with a murderous history that has stood sentry over the small Maine settlement.…

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