Series
Jerusalem's Lot
Stephen King · 1 novel · 2 short stories · 1975–2005
Stephen King's 1975 novel 'Salem's Lot follows writer Ben Mears as he returns to his childhood town of Jerusalem's Lot, Maine, only to discover that its residents are being turned into vampires by a newly arrived stranger. It transplants Gothic vampire horror into a small New England community, tracking that community's collapse under a supernatural siege. It is a single, self-contained novel.
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The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
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Jerusalem's Lot at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
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By decade
- 1970s2
- 1980s0
- 1990s0
- 2000s1
Shape
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book2 of 3 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- 'Salem's Lotdarkest · calmest
- One for the Roadbrightest · most intense