‘Salem’s Lot

KING, Stephen.

Item Number: 2014

Garden City: Doubleday, 1975.

First edition of the author’s second novel. Octavo, original half black cloth. Signed by Stephen King on the title page. Fine in a near fine second-issue dust jacket, with Father Cody. A very bright copy.

"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 I was thinking about secrets, things that have been hidden and were being dragged out into the light." "King’s ability, through the overlayering of seemingly irrelevant mundane details, to generate a sense of wrongness found its first full flowering in this novel" (Clute & Grant, 537).