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Stephen Kingcast

Episode 7-Tobe Hooper's Salem's Lot (1979)

Stephen Kingcast

Constant Reader

Books, Arts:books, Arts, Tv & Film

4.7680 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2014

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode of The Stephen Kingcast, I examine 1979's adaptation of Salem's Lot. But first, I read some listener e-mail. I then finish up the review with some recommendations. Enjoy!  As always, if you have any thoughts on anything related to Stephen King or vampires, write into stephenkingcast@yahoo.com Follow me on Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook and Bluesky. Stay organized and up to date with all things Stephen King at stephenkingcast.com Check out bonus material, early episodes and reviews of all things pop culture over at patreon.com/stephenkingcast

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the Stephen King cast, One Man's Musings in the Works of Stephen

0:06.0

King. Each week, I'll review one entry in the bibliography of publication, and today we are going to

0:13.5

be discussing Toby Hooper's 1979 TV movie adaptation of King's second novel, Salem's Lot.

0:21.4

But before we begin, I would just like to take a few moments to go over a few listener emails.

0:31.7

And Facebook comments that I've received so far because, like I've said, time and time again,

0:39.2

I don't want this to be just me.

0:41.8

I want this to be an ongoing conversation.

0:49.4

I really can't do this without hearing your thoughts and your feedback and anything that you might disagree that I have to say.

0:54.9

So I'm just going to take a few moments to read what you've told me so far. So I've been very grateful that some people actually

0:57.4

have reached out and written to me.

0:59.4

So if you wanna share some of your thoughts

1:02.0

on either any of my views or analyses

1:05.3

that I've given so far,

1:06.9

or if you just wanna share your own experience

1:09.0

with a particular novel or short story that I reviewed. Or, you know, you can just tell me what Stephen King means to you, how you wound up getting into this world. All of these things I would just, I would like to be able to just read and just be able to share, you know, with others. So you can reach out to me at Stephen Kingcast at Yahoo.com. I'm currently on Instagram at Stephen Kingcast.

1:29.2

The Twitter handle is Stephen Kingcast.

1:31.2

I'm on Facebook, Stephen Kingcast.

1:33.6

So if you just do any sort of search on social media for Stephen Kingcast, you're going to find it.

1:40.8

So the first is from Jack. and Jack writing was was huge because this is evidence that

1:50.1

Stephen Kingcast has gone global. He's writing from the UK. So he writes, I'm Jack from

1:55.7

SK underscore fans on Instagram. I listened to episode one of your podcasts this morning, and I loved it.

2:01.9

I'll definitely be following your podcast, and I really hope you continue growing and have

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