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alastairsavin 's review for:

'Salem's Lot by Stephen King
4.0

I hated the fact that the opening chapter spoils which characters survived. However other than that this is a really effective horror story. The earlier scenes when the vampires are trying to establish themselves were the most powerfully creepy, towards the end when all hell let loose it became more gory than tense. Still the image of the gravedigger digging up Danny Glicks corpse will stick with me for a while.

Btw the two short stories at the end of the main novel were fantastic!


Edit: Reread notes. This book feels like watching a snowball roll down a hill getting bigger and bigger with nothing able to stop it. It feels a bit like IT with all of the characters from the town but here it felt like it had more of impact because most of them got turned into vampires!