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A review by kingjustiniii
'Salem's Lot by Stephen King
4.0
This book feels very much like Stephen King’s love letter to the vampire stories that inspired him and it does them all proud. I still enjoy some of his other stories a bit more, but this book really is vintage old school King horror at its peak.
I do wish we got to see a little more of big bad Barlow. While every scene we got with the main vampire baddy in it was really well done, there were shockingly little of them. Any time we got to hear him talk he was so genuinely creepy in that perfectly charming Dracula way I so desperately wanted to hear more.
ALSO all these “M” first name characters got really confusing! I was constantly confusing Matt with Mark and Mark with Mike. I got so excited every time one of them died because I wouldn’t have to worry about mixing them up anymore!
Overall a fantastic vampire novel as to be expected from “King” of horror himself!
I do wish we got to see a little more of big bad Barlow. While every scene we got with the main vampire baddy in it was really well done, there were shockingly little of them. Any time we got to hear him talk he was so genuinely creepy in that perfectly charming Dracula way I so desperately wanted to hear more.
ALSO all these “M” first name characters got really confusing! I was constantly confusing Matt with Mark and Mark with Mike. I got so excited every time one of them died because I wouldn’t have to worry about mixing them up anymore!
Overall a fantastic vampire novel as to be expected from “King” of horror himself!