Monday, October 31, 2005

Vampires in the modern ages

The title of this blog was taken from a book by the great Stephen King. It's called 'Salem's Lot.

These were the reviews in the edition I've read:

"One of the few horror writers who can truly make the flesh creep"
Sunday Express

"Not since Dickens has a writer had so many readers by the throat... King's imagination is vast... one of the great storytellers of our time"
Guardian

They said it and I totally agreed Both Thumbs Up Here is the plot (also from my book):

"Thousands of miles away from the small township of 'Salem's Lot, two terrified people still share the secrets of those clapboard houses and tree-lined streets.

One is an eleven-year-old boy. He never speaks but his eyes betray the indescribable horror he has witnessed.

The other is a man plagued by nightmares, a man who knows that soon he and the boy must return to 'Salem's Lot for a final confrontation with the unspeakable evil that lives on in the town where no one is human anymore..."

It's all great, from the characters to the story. And the ending sugests a trailing line to a possible sequel... That unfortunately was not to be written...

I think this is a less morbid story than the usual stories by the same author... But it is as terrifying as all the others...

Hell!! It's really a masterpiece in my opinion!

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