'Salem's Lot Analysis

Like the title says, the setting of 'Salem's Lot is the town, Jerusalem's Lot. From the library to the garbage dump, from the boarding house to the police station, from the church to the evil Marst...

'Salem's Lot refers, most directly, to the setting of the novel—the town of Jerusalem's Lot in Maine (King's home state). That setting is, in a lot of ways, the protagonist: the book's about Jeru...

There's no epigraph for the overall book, but there's an epigraph for each part, including the prologue and epilogue.The preface has an epigraph by George Seferis from the poem "Return of the Exile...

There are a lot of great scenes in 'Salem's Lot. (Danny Glick clinging to the window, anyone?) The end isn't really one of those scenes, though. King probably should have ended it with the Barlow s...

'Salem's Lot is really, really long. It's one of those books that you start and can't quite believe how many pages are sitting over there in your right hand. Then you read and read, and there are s...