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'Salem's Lot

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'Salem's Lot

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Ron McLarty
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Summary

 Don't miss King's #1 chilling classic, now a major motion picture from Warner Bros. Pictures. Available in cinemas (UK and Germany) or stream on MAX from October 2024.

'Salem's Lot is a small New England town with white clapboard houses, tree-lined streets and solid church steeples. Of course there are tales of strange happenings - but no more than in any other such town.

Ben Mears has returned to the Lot to write a novel and exorcise the terrors that have haunted him since childhood - since the event he witnessed at the Marsten House.

He finds the house has been rented by a newcomer, a man who causes Ben some unease. And then things start to happen: a child disappears, a dog is brutally killed - nothing unusual, except the list keeps growing...©1975 Stephen King Crime Fiction Fantasy Horror Supernatural Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Scary
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Critic reviews

Hugely impressive
One of the few horror writers who can truly make the flesh creep
Mr. King's gift of storytelling is unrivaled. His ferocious imagination is unlimited (George Pelecanos)
[King is] ... the guy who probably knows more about scary goings-on in confined, isolated places than anybody since Edgar Allen Poe
Popular fiction's most prolific terror-monger's...genius remains in the conjuring of evil out of ephemera, of a malevolent universe lurking behind the Walmart shopping trolley banality of every day, small town America
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I read Salem's Lot many years ago and I'm not sure what made me go back but I am so glad I did. I had forgotten just how good Stephen King can be.

King's tale of a small town which, with more than a little help from an ancient vampire, turns bad very quickly is absolutely everything you could wish from an audiobook. Rather than leaping in the story builds slowly, fleshing out characters and making you care about the cost of the battle. It is read with feeling and intelligence.

As with all really great stories, when it was finished I felt as if I had lost a friend. Highly recommended!

Forgot just how good he is!

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I was totally traumatised by the 70s TV version of this with David Soul - I couldn't sleep next to a window incase the vampires scratched on it at night!!! Being older and wiser, I thought I'd be much braver listening to the audiobook, but let me assure you, it's JUST AS SCARY!!!

A writer arrives back at his childhood home, trying to reconcile a phobia of the local haunted house. The new owner of said haunted house is opening an antique shop with a mysteriously absent partner. A child goes missing and things pretty much go downhill from there, family illnesses, gutted dogs and death. Gah, listen in the daytime!

Get your garlic!

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Brilliant story. Expertly read. Clearly and confidently . Eerie and full of impending horror. Great.

Salem's Lot.

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Ron McLarty is a legend In narrating. His voice is to die for… Love love this audio book cos of him and again I have always loved Stephen King’s novels. Salam’s Lot is a 9/10 for me

The Narrator

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Even better than l remember and even scarier. This is Stephen King at his best

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