Salem's Lot? by stephen king?

Question

Whats so scary about it? Whats the plot? What are the scary things in the novel? (parts)

Answer 1

It's about vampires, it has the typical haunted house in it that all the children sneak into on dares.
Go here for more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem%27s_Lot

Answer 2

well besides your basic way fo looking at things ... theres the battle fo good evil , evil being the town full of vampires and good being those that are fighting to keep alive . now the plot , its a small town filled with lots of urban legends , a man comes back from being gone for ages to find that things are changing but for the worst . theres the scary house on the hill that looks down on the whole town , the mysterious men that come into town just as things are going bad , dead people rising and attacking people , children and others disappearing , the woman being caught and stuck in the basement .... the list goes on ... its a great book lol

Answer 3

well for one thing it involves a creepy old house and a creepy old man that moves into said house but also brings a vampire with him. People start to dying and then after burial they return as vampires...the little kids were the spookiest to me. An author is the Hero of the story as he is investigating the goings on in the town of Salem's lot, he finds out what is going on and well....dont want to spoil it. hope this helps

Answer 4

Ben Mears, a successful writer who grew up in the (fictional) town of Jerusalem’s Lot, Cumberland County, Maine (or “The Lot”, as the locals call it), has returned home following the death of his wife. Once in town he meets local high school teacher Matt Burke and strikes up a romantic relationship with Susan Norton, a young college graduate.

Ben plans to write a book about the “Marsten House”, an abandoned mansion that gave him nightmares after a bad experience with it as a child. The Marsten House was the home of '30s Gangster Hubert Marsten. Hubert, or "Hubie" was a hitman who specialized in rather unsavory hits. Hubie's profession intersected with his personal life and after his suicide, it was discovered he was responsible for the deaths of several children. Unbeknownst to Ben and his new friends, the Marsten House is about to be inhabited by the vampire Kurt Barlow. It is later revealed that Hubie Marsten had in fact communicated with the erstwhile Barlow, and that in the course of their correspondence Marsten may have extended to Barlow the necessary invitation to come to 'Salems Lot.

Mears discovers that the Marsten House has been bought by a Mr. Straker and a Mr. Barlow, appearing as a pair of businessmen who are also new to the town, although only Straker has yet been seen. Their arrival coincides with the disappearance of a young boy, Ralphie Glick, and the suspicious death of his brother Danny. Over the course of the book, the town is slowly taken over by vampires, reducing it to a ghost town by day as they sleep.

Ben and Susan are joined by Matt Burke and his doctor Jimmy Cody, along with a young boy named Mark Petrie and the local priest, Father Callahan, to stop the vampires from dominating the town. When Mark Petrie and Susan break and enter into the Marsten House, they are found and taken prisoner by Mr. Straker. Mark is able to fatally wound Straker (who is eventually killed by the master vampire Barlow for failing his duties), but Susan is captured by Barlow before Mark has a chance to rescue her. When Mark returns to the others, the characters begin to run into several unfortunate tragedies. Susan, while held hostage by Barlow, becomes a vampire herself, and Ben has to resort to killing her with a wooden stake. Then, Father Callahan is caught by Barlow, and Barlow forces Callahan to drink blood from his own neck, transforming Callahan into a dazed and confused human being, soon to take a bus ride out of town- his motives remaining unknown. Finally, Jimmy Cody is killed when he falls into a dark basement and is impaled by knife traps set by Barlow, while Matt Burke dies suffering from heart attacks in the nearby hospital.

Answer 5

It's a novel about vampires.