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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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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. David Palumbo (illustrator). First Edition. Cemetery Dance edition, published 2015. One of 750 copies signed by David Palumbo and Glenn Chadbourne on the limitation page. Not signed by King. This has been marked as a PC copy. Hardcover with jacket presented inside traycase. Clean and bright. Binding strong. Minimal to no wear. Appears unread. Lovely copy in fine condition. Jacket now in fresh Mylar. Additional photos available upon request. All of our books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box. Signed by Illustrators. Seller Inventory # 240208001