Hello, everyone, welcome to the Stephen King cast, One Man's Musings on the Works of Stephen King.

Just a quick note on this episode to orient yourself.

If you are tuning into the Stephen King for the first time, welcome.

And if you are making your way from the beginning of the podcast and working your way through the catalog,

please note that I have reordered and restructured and in this case, re-edited with new audio introductions

in order to make sure that the progression from episode to episode aligns itself nicely and consistently.

So I want everyone to know that if you are listening to this episode, which is the ending to Salem's lot,

please note that this episode first was published in February of 2020, and just for context, the review of

Salem's lot itself came out in the fall of 2014.

So there's just some time, not discrepancies, but variations from episode to episode as you make

your way through this new chronology.

Now, just a note on what you're about to listen to.

When I finished the original mission of this podcast, which was to review the works of Stephen

King and the chronological order of publication.

I did that successful, and then I kept, you know, making the podcast, catching up on

stuff I didn't get to or movie reviews that I never did.

I did some top ten lists.

And then there was a conversation, the adaptation of the outsider had just come out, and there was their conversation around the, again, and it comes up every now and then the fact that Stephen King can't land his endings.

So I thought about that, and I decided to dedicate the podcast towards examining the endings of Stephen King.

So that's what you're going to get here, is specifically a deep dive into the ending

of Salem's lot and how effective that is for what preceded the ending within the contents

of the book.

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