Salem's Lot Study Guide & Plot Synopsis

Salem's Lot Plot Summary

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In 1975, a vampire comes to the small town of Jerusalem's Lot, Maine. He converts some of the people to vampires, and they transform others into vampires, until almost the whole town is undead. Two people eventually kill the head vampire and flee, leaving a town full of vampires behind.

Ben Mears, a writer, goes to Jerusalem's Lot, a small town in Maine. He used to live in 'Salem's Lot when he was a child, and he is going back there now to write a book based on the town. People in the town avoid the "Marsten House" as a man once killed his wife there and then committed suicide there by hanging himself. As a child, Ben once had the frightening experience of going into that house and seeing the ghost of that man. Ben now goes to the Marsten House, but he...
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