'salem's lot/stephen king

Turn off the television - in fact, why dont you turn off all the lights except for the one over your favourite chair? - and well talk about vampires here in the dim.

I think I can make you believe in them.

Stephen King, from the Introduction.

Salems Lot is a small New England town with the usual quota of gossips, drinkers, weirdos and respectable folk.

Of course there are tales of strange happenings - but not more than in any other town its size.

Ben Mears, a moderately successful writer, returns to the Lot to write a novel based on his early years, and to exorcise the terrors that have haunted him since childhood.

The event he witnessed in the house now rented by a new resident.

A newcomer with a strange allure.

A man who causes Ben some unease as things start to happen: a child disappears, a dog is brutally killed - nothing unusual, except the list starts to grow.

Soon surprise will turn to bewilderment, bewilderment to confusion and finally to terror .