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Special Features For This Deluxe Special Edition: * an introduction by Stephen King * an afterword by Clive Barker * many deleted scenes that were cut from the original manuscript * deluxe oversized design (7 inches X 10 inches) featuring two color interior printing as part of the page design * printed on a heavy interior specialty paper stock that is much thicker than the paper in a normal trade edition * custom-made slipcase to protect the book * epic wrap-around full color dust jacket artwork by David Palumbo * full color interior paintings by David Palumbo * interior artwork will be printed on a heavy glossy stock and tipped into the book * an original map of the town drawn by Glenn Chadbourne exclusively for this special edition * high-quality endpapers and a fine binding * an exclusive reproduction of the first reader's letter to point out the Father Cody error and several internal memos from Doubleday about changing the pricing after the first edition of the book was already printed * extremely collectible print run that is a tiny fraction of the TENS OF MILLIONS of copies of this novel you've seen in bookstores over the years!

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Stephen King's second book, 'Salem's Lot--about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels: a small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational, goodhearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil.

Simply taken as a contemporary vampire novel, 'Salem's Lotis great fun to read, and has been very influential in the horror genre. But it's also a sly piece of social commentary. As King said in 1983, "In 'Salem's Lot, the thing that really scared me was not vampires, but the town in the daytime, the town that was empty, knowing that there were things in closets, that there were people tucked under beds, under the concrete pilings of all those trailers. And all the time I was writing that, the Watergate hearings were pouring out of the TV.... Howard Baker kept asking, 'What I want to know is, what did you know and when did you know it?' That line haunts me, it stays in my mind.... During that time I was thinking about secrets, things that have been hidden and were being dragged out into the light." Sounds quite a bit like the idea behind his 1998 novel of a Maine hamlet haunted by unsightly secrets, Bag of Bones. --Fiona Webster

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  • PublisherCemetery Dance Pubns
  • Publication date2016
  • ISBN 10 1587675072
  • ISBN 13 9781587675072
  • BindingLeather Bound
  • Number of pages600
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