A review by noona
'Salem's Lot by Stephen King

adventurous dark sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

• There is no group therapy or psychiatry or community social services for the child who must cope with the thing under the bed or in the cellar every night, the thing which leers and capers and threatens just beyond the point where vision will reach. The same lonely battle must be fought night after night and the only cure is the eventual ossification of the imaginary faculties, and this is called adulthood.

• Ben smiled back, 'Mark Twain said a novel was a confession to everything by a man who had never done anything.

• Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us, how good stories abide, unchanged and mutely wise.

• there may be some truth in that idea that houses absorb the emotions that are spent in them.

• No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill house, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within;... silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill house and whatever walked there, walked alone. -Shirley Jackson 

         The haunting of Hill House