Just King Things is a podcast about reading the books of Stephen King in publication order.

These are largely horror novels and often deal with complicated and disturbing topics.

This episode is on the 1975 novel, Salem's Lot, and has content warnings for

substance abuse, including alcoholism

automotive accidents and death misogyny domestic and child abuse including infant

abuse animal death abelism bodily trauma and mutilation and homophobia and gay panic The

The Howdy, friends and neighbors, and welcome back to Just King Things, the show where we read the works of Stephen King in publication order.

I'm your host, Michael, and with me is my co-host, Cameron.

Gross. I'm sucking your blood, Michael.

Isn't that a gross noise? It is a gross noise. It is a gross noise. It's very, very gross.

Well, I was, you know, that's what I was thinking about because there's someone in this

novel, and I don't want to spoil it for anybody, but there's vampires in this bad boy.

And someone says they're hearing vampire stuff going on, you know, hashtag vampire stuff.

Yeah.

And they say, and then they could hear the sucking and like how, how much that, you know,

scared them or whatnot.

And I just thought in my head and I probably while I was reading the book made the noise out

loud.

I was just like, I had the exact same reaction to that line where it's like, if this were real, right, this would be scary.

But the problem is, in fiction, in writing, the word sucking is just very funny.

I'll stop doing that.

Okay.

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