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 writing you from the desk in my brand new family home, which probably does not have dead people in the walls.

And I'm King Newy Matt Freeman, one of the dead people in the walls.

And I'll have one for the road. This week on the show,

we are going to be checking out two Stephen King short stories set in in Salem's lot, quote

unquote. We're going to be talking about Jerusalem's lot and one for the road. This was not originally

our plan. We were just going to head right into the next book after this, but we decided we should take a quick stop and check out these two short stories. That's what are going to be doing this week, Matt? What did you think of both of these stories broadly before we dive into them? Well, I was really happy to flesh out the SLEU.

I'm sorry, the, uh, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I liked just in terms of just very high level.

Like, I enjoy Jerusalem.

And then it's a lot, a lot.

Talk about how it's clearly a lovecraft homage.

And then the second one, one for the road, it seemed like uh he had one more fun idea in

the salem's lot setting that could have very well fit into the book you know like like and it just

was like yeah it could have been a fun stinger at the end of the book yeah fun stinger exactly it was

like a fun little like like, end note.

Yeah.

And felt, you know, totally, I think one fun thing is that these are two totally stylistically

different stories.

Yeah, I think it's fun to have to talk about them in the same week because they are so

incredibly different from each other.

Yeah.

That really shows, you know, his range. And I think

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