Long days, pleasant nights, and welcome to Kingslingers, a doof media podcast journeying through Stephen King's Dark Tower series and beyond.

I am your host, Constant Reader Scott Daly.

And I'm your co-host, Relative King Newby, Matt Freeman.

This week on the show, Season 2 begins at last.

We will be beginning this season by beginning our first book of the season, Salem's Lot.

We'll be discussing the prologue through chapter two of Stephen King, Salem's Lot.

We meet a man and a boy fleeing from and then back to Salem's Lot.

Back in the lot, we meet our protagonist, Ben Mears, writer, who has come to the lot to write a book.

And we also meet Susan Norton, his love interest,

and a small town girl itching to escape this poor provincial town. Matt, what did you think

of this week's reading? Well, I'm having a great time so far. I mean, it is funny how King basically

in his four-word tells us, this is going to be Dracula in the 20th century.

And then it really does feel very much like Dracula in the 20th century.

And there's a lot about it that feels very, very like the Stephen King that I know and love.

But it also has a unique feeling to it.

And I mean, of course it does because King is a great writer and he's not going to make

all of his books feel the same.

But this is, you know, I had a very strong and very specific vibe.

There's a lot of, I think we're going to use the word dread like 50 times this week

because everything is just steeped in dread. Yeah. Yeah. And I don't

think we'll be stopping this week either. I think that's good a word we're going to be using

through the next couple months actually. Can't wait. Without further ado, let's get into Salem's

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