I just finished re-readin' 'Salem's Lot...the NEW illustrated edition....

[jus_the_facts]

.....which includes deleted material..re-writes really...and two short stories of Stephen King's that are about 'Salem's Lot...it took me literally YEARS to be able to read this book because the movie freaked me OUT too bad as a kid...and I was terrified of Vampires for a looooooong time afterwards. :D

If you have't read this book before...I definitely recommend it...if you have read it before...you should revisit this tale once again with the new book....you won't be disappointed! Muahahahaha....

[MidwestMomma]

1. Salems Lot was the first Stephen King book I read

I was a freshman in college. I lived on the 4th floor of the dorm. I had to sleep with the lights on as I knew a freakin' vampire was going to show up at my 4th floor window. That story made me believe that vampires could be real.... :scared:

[jus_the_facts]

2. I know what you mean...

....eventhough I'd read it before...this time I still jumped at noises as I was readin' late at night LOL! :hi:

[Midlodemocrat]

21. Mine, too.

It scared me so badly I slept with the lights on and a rosary on my bedpost for six months. I was 16.

[sundog]

3. that's the only book that really scared the shit out of me

i read it when i was young...

what sort of illustrations does it have? th front appears to be a photograph...

is it a single artist or a compilation?

[jus_the_facts]

6. It's illustrated by Jerry Uelsmann.....

...it states they're photo's on the jacket cover...but they look like sketches not photographs...hmm?! You should check it out again...the re-written stuff was a TRIP! :hi:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. I read both 'Salem's Lot and The Shining in a very short stretch one

summer before starting junior high.

Some bad, scary shit, there.

[jus_the_facts]

7. It's some bad..scary shit....indeed....

....I enjoyed it very much...SK is my favorite writer...have you read The Dark Tower series?

[Broken_Hero]

11. I've read the dark tower series...

And it was a very good series. The first book, the Gunslinger was the hardest one for me to read, but it was the shortest one of the series, go figure. The drawing of the three though, it got my attention in a heart beat with Eddy, and Susan, and bringing Jake back, and I was hooked. I have read a decent handful of SK's books, I got a few more this weekend, i traded in some books and got The Stand, Doloroes Clairborne, Nightmares and DreamScapes, Black House, Eyes of the Dragon, Bag of Bones, and The Talisman...I all ready started the Talisman, i'm just over 100 pages deep.

I have also read Salems Lot, Insomina, Dreamcather(very good book, the movie was a waste of shit), and the whole dark tower series...i think thats about all i have read so far, i think...:)

[jus_the_facts]

16. Same for me...I tried readin' the Gunslinger when it first came out....

...I didn't get through a couple chapters before puttin' it down for many years...once I started collectin' his work in hardback...which was a disappointment as those first four are STILL only available in paperback...but started 'em and couldn't put 'em down...especially the last three....now I list this series as second favorite to The Stand...my all time favorite book EVER!

The Talisman is GREAT...Black House is much darker but still good...Nightmares and Dreamscapes is okay...my least favorite of his short stories by far..though a few in there are really good...the last story in that one is a TRIP....it's been so long since I read Eyes o'the Dragon all remember that I enjoyed it a lot...DC is good too. Enjoy...but I know you will! :hi:

[Broken_Hero]

32. Yeah...:)

It took me two months to read the Gunslinger, the book is about 225 pages long, damn, i can usualyl knock books like that out in a day or two, and it took me two long months.

But, the drawing of the three-wolves of the calla, i read in 14 days...I read the Drawing of the Three, Wastelands, Wizard in Glass, and Wolves of the Calla in two weeks...man, i took off big time...I am glad i started now, so i didn't have to go through the agony of waiting for the next book to come out...and then i finished Song of Susannah and DT 7 when they came out...man, good reading, i need to read them again.

My wife had read a ton of steven king, and she is trying to pick out the books that she knows tie in, like Black House, Talisman....but the others I got, just to read, i don't have much else to do nowadays besides rattle the cages of DU...:)

[jus_the_facts]

33. I'd gotten DT7 before SoS...and read 'em out of sequence....

...when I went back and read SoS...I had to read DT7 again because it was just so DAMNED good...cried just as hard the second time as I did the first towards the end there too...EXCELLENT series..it's no wonder why he's my favorite writer after those..sure hope he'll not retire now!! ;-)

[displacedtexan]

5. I was reading Salem's Lot & Helter Skelter at the same time...

Had to scurry across the room to turn the light off and run back to bed.

And I've never been afraid of the dark!

Yikes! Salem's Lot with illustrations?

[jus_the_facts]

8. Ironically there aren't that many pictures...

....but the deleted stuff is really why I think they re-issued it...it includes several snippets of the original manuscript that were changed before it was released...frightfully interestin'! :hi:

[politicat]

9. Did you read the Dark Tower series?

Because I'm interested in the tie-in.

[Broken_Hero]

12. Dark Tower Tie in, spoiler...with Salems Lot...:)

Father Callahan, was the tie in to the Dark Tower series. The group, runs into Father Callahan in the Wolves of the Calla, book 5 of the DT series. And through the adventures of the book, I believe Eddy, and Roland pull a book case through a dimension door, and on this book case is a book, "Salems Lot" by Stephen King...the heroes don't know how King is involved with the DT and what not, and Father Callahan is surprised that everything he went through, and the events of the "Lot" where written down....the group then knows, that they have to pay S. King a visit, and they do, in book 6 of the series and book 7....;)

At first i thought King was cheesy writing himself into the storyline, but he did a good job of it, i was surprised he didn't cop out, or out cheese himself, by writing himself into one of his novels...:)

Also, Insomina ties in heavily, in book 7 of the DT, and the Hearts in Atlantis, Ted Bratigan ties in heavily also in book 7...my wife tells me that Black House ties in, and the litte sisters of eluria also...:) He ties in a lot in the series, I noticed The Stand tie in, and I believe IT ties in, in book 7, but i'm not entirely sure, because my knowledge of IT comes from the movie, but I believe that creature was in book 7, guarding the Danville kid....

[politicat]

37. No... the emotional vampire holding Patrick Danville is not the thing

from IT.

IT really doesn't tie in, though IT has links to Tommyknockers (which was a crappy book....)

I knew the spoilers, but I haven't actually read SL in a score of years (I think I read it early on) so I was wondering if the new version brought in new material that related.

The ties I know of: Everything's Eventual (Dinky), Stand, Talisman and Black House, Eyes of the Dragon, Rose Madder, Desperation, The Regulators (as Bachman), The afore mentioned HiA, Insomnia. The Shorts: Little Sisters, Mrs. Todd's Shortcut (the caretaker is the same one who will become one of the directors of Tet).

I'm sure there are others, but I'm not a concordance maker....

[jus_the_facts]

14. Yes indeed...several of his works over the years tie in...

...they are all listed in bold...in the last Dark Tower book....I hated that it had to end but maaaaaan....because as much as I love SK..some o'his endings are a let down...this one doesn't disappoint in that regard. :hi:

[jus_the_facts]

15. Dupe

:crazy:

[rqstnnlitnmnt]

10. read it at the beach one summer

f'ing scary as hell!!!!! one of my favs (the stand is my #1)

[jus_the_facts]

13. The Stand is definitely my favorite...but the Dark Tower is a close second

:hi:

[flamingyouth]

17. Oh man, I'll have to get that.

That book scared the crap out of me as a kid too - even the movie did, especially the part with the boy floating outside the second-story window. :scared:

I reread it a few years back, while I was housesitting ALONE for a friend in an old house (not the best choice of reading material...) and it still scared me. That's my favorite Stephen King book. Thanks for the recommendation! :D
:hug:

[jus_the_facts]

19. You're most welcome....Danny Glick...yep my childhood fear as well....

...was terrified of him for years before I could even look at this book..."Let me in Mark!" :scared: :hide:

:hi: :hug:

[Fenris]

22. ...

[jus_the_facts]

23. Aaaaarrrrrrggggghhhh.......

....no warning...DAMMIT! :D :spank:

:hi:

[Fenris]

24. Heeheehee!

:evilgrin:

:hi:

[jus_the_facts]

29. He's still creepy as HELL....

....I'm tellin' flamingyouth to get you back for this one! :evilgrin: :hug:

[LostinVA]

18. Scariest King: First, "It," then "Salem's Lot"

I was 24 when I read "It," and slept with my lights on and my door barricaded for a frigging fortnight. Even now, thinking of Pennywise scares me....

[jus_the_facts]

20. 'IT' didn't scare me like 'Salem's Lot did.....

....I was still in elementary school when I saw the movie on TV and it messed me UP...vampires were scarier to me than clowns I guess! :D :hi:

[LostinVA]

26. It petrified me -- I remember staying up all night reading

Because I was afraid to go to sleep!

[chrisau214]

25. Do the rats play a more significant role in this edition?

I've always wanted to read the original version before the pay-off scene with the rats was changed.

Scariest book ever.


Chris

[jus_the_facts]

27. They included the deleted scenes at the end.....

....several things were changed when they edited...at first I was disappointed that it wasn't an uncut version...but after I read it and got to the deleted stuff I could easier understand why they did it that way...it's well worth it too...the rats definitely play a bigger role and woulda made it even more scary if they'd left that in! :hi:

[LostinVA]

28. What rats?

[jus_the_facts]

30. I won't spoil it for you....unless you don't plan on readin' it.....

:P

[LostinVA]

31. *groan*

[Broken_Hero]

34. The rats...at the salvage yard/dump...n/t

[LostinVA]

35. Oh! Can you PM me the larger part they play in the rewrites?

[Broken_Hero]

36. I haven't read the rewrite...

I just remember a lot of rats at the salvage/garbage yard...

[jus_the_facts]

38. I'll tell ya about it.....

...check your PM. :P