- How would the novel be different if Mark Petrie were a girl? What about if Susan Norton were the main hero rather than Ben Mears?
- Could the novel be told in first person (by Ben Mears, for example) rather than in third person? Why or why not?
- 'Salem's Lot is a very long novel. If you had to cut it by a third, what would you leave out?
- Barlow muses about what would have happened if he'd gone to "one of your great and teeming cities" rather than to a small town (10.330). Could 'Salem's Lot be set in a city? How would it be different if it were?
- Would you say that 'Salem's Lot has a happy ending? Why or why not?