Read 'salem's Lot after almost forty years, and although I think some younger readers may find it a bit corny (I am basing this on how vampires have evolved in books, films and TV over the years, Angel, Being Human, Twilight saga,The Originals, True Blood,etc.) But it did not fail to hold (like a non-painful vise) my attention and if Carrie was the cornerstone then 'salem's Lot is the foundation of the house SK built. In most of his books SK will give the start and finish date and I was surprised that it took him almost three years to complete SL, although he may have put it away for a while between those dates. It was a great, terrifying read back then and still is.
One line made me smile at the end of Chapter 14. "They were in the streets, the walking dead." Sorry Robert Kirkland (The comic book writer who created TWD comic series, that the TV show is based on.), but SK coined the phrase "the walking dead" three years before you were born. Perhaps the phrase has been mentioned in earlier works by other horror writers, but I am not aware of this.
Vampires. Who is your favorite vampire? Mine is actor Paul Rhys's (small) role of Dracula in the series Da Vinci's Demons. Actually he went by Vlad the Impaler but Rhys gave a brilliant performance IMO and I wish his role in the series was a tad bigger and I also wish Starz would do a spinoff of his character. I swear they had to super-glue his eyelids to stay open...wide open...Jaysus that stare! And I never saw him blink once! But as sadistic as he was, you could not help sympathizing with him (betrayed by his brother) and laugh at his offbeat,dark humor...great antihero!
One line made me smile at the end of Chapter 14. "They were in the streets, the walking dead." Sorry Robert Kirkland (The comic book writer who created TWD comic series, that the TV show is based on.), but SK coined the phrase "the walking dead" three years before you were born. Perhaps the phrase has been mentioned in earlier works by other horror writers, but I am not aware of this.
Vampires. Who is your favorite vampire? Mine is actor Paul Rhys's (small) role of Dracula in the series Da Vinci's Demons. Actually he went by Vlad the Impaler but Rhys gave a brilliant performance IMO and I wish his role in the series was a tad bigger and I also wish Starz would do a spinoff of his character. I swear they had to super-glue his eyelids to stay open...wide open...Jaysus that stare! And I never saw him blink once! But as sadistic as he was, you could not help sympathizing with him (betrayed by his brother) and laugh at his offbeat,dark humor...great antihero!