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

Each week we'll review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King in the chronological order of publication.

And this week, we are going to be reviewing Stephen King's second novel.

1975's Small Town Tale of Vampirism, Salem's Lot.

If you had tuned into the first week's podcast

in which I covered Carrie, I discussed how I discovered King with it and the subsequent binge-read

of every one of his then-published novels. Like most of Stephen King's properties, even if I hadn't

read the story by King, I was aware of it. I knew that Salem's Lot was a vampire story in a small

town with

the name of the book, and I had seen parts of the TV movie from the 1970s that, of course,

was familiar of it through the Simpsons' annual Treehouse of Terror in 1993 episode.

I believe I first read Salem's Lot in the fall. I don't know if I read it in the fall

the first time,

but I distinctly remember rereading it a few years later around Halloween. When compiling a list

of Halloween books, I never really see Salem's Lot included in any list, but I strongly recommend

this to be read around October 31st. With the beautiful imagery of a small town under the moonlight, while menacing

shadows stalk their prey through the dark woods, it is an essential read if you appreciate

spooky stories to tell them the dark. This is now the third time I'm reading Salem's lot,

and I'm happy to say that I enjoyed it just as much the third time around as I did the first two.

So, before we get into our review, I'm going to take a few moments to read the Wikipedia summary.

Salem's Lot is the second book published by Stephen King.

The book was published by Doubleday on October 17, 1975.

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