'Salem's Lot (1975)
(Cameron)
- ‘Salem’s Lot is a small town in Maine with a dark history.
- Earlier than the novel, a gangster lived there with his wife and did all kinds of bad things, and then later in the 1950s, a young boy named Ben Mears went to the house where the mobster/gangster lived (where the gangster had died some years earlier) and went to the top of the stairs and saw his ghostly form.
- Years later, Ben Mears returns to the town, now a famous writer, and decides to begin writing a novel to work through his feelings about that experience he had as a child.
- There are lots of kooky characters that live in the town of ‘Salem’s Lot, and many of them have dark secrets, but generally they’re nice Maine folk.
- Vampires show up and ruin the whole thing.