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Previously, King had written a short story called " Jerusalem's Lot". The theme is different, however: the story is a pastiche of H.P. Lovecraft.
King wrote a follow-up short story about vampires in 'Salem's Lot called "One for the Road". Both "Jerusalem's Lot" and "One for the Road" are published in the collection Night Shift.
'Salem's Lot tells the tale of Ben Mears, a writer who comes back to his home town, the fictional town of Jerusalem's Lot, Maine (or "'salem's Lot", as the locals call it). He is there to see The Marsten House, an old house that has given him nightmares for years because of a bad experience with it as a child. As it turns out, the house has been bought by a Mr. Barlow, who seems very suspicious to Ben. Over the course of the book, the town is slowly taken over by vampires, while Ben and a few people he meets in the town try to figure out what Barlow is up to and try to stop the vampires from taking over.
'Salem's Lot was the first of King's books to have a huge cast of characters, a trait that would appear again in later books such as The Stand. The town of Jerusalem's Lot would also serve as a prototype for later fictional towns of King's writing, namely Castle Rock, Maine and Derry, Maine.
King reused the character Father Callahan, the local priest whose faith falters in the presence of Barlow, in his The Dark TowerThe Dark Tower is a fantasy fiction, science fantasy, and western themed series of novels by the American writer Stephen King. The series has been described as King's magnum opus besides the seven novels that comprise the series proper, many of his other series. He appears in Wolves of the CallaWolves of the Calla is the fifth book in Stephen King's Dark Tower series. Wolves The Wolves ride out of Thunderclap once every generation. They raid the town of Calla Bryn Sturgis in search of twin children, who are the norm rather than the exception the, Song of SusannahSong of Susannah is the second-to-last book in Stephen King's Dark Tower series. Taking place mainly in our world (New York City and East Stoneham, Maine), the ka-tet are split up in different places and different 'whens' to find out more information pert, and The Dark TowerThe Dark Tower is the seventh, and final, novel in Stephen King's Dark Tower series. It was released on September 21, 2004, by Donald M. Grant publishers, and has illustrations by Michael Whelan. It concludes the gunslinger's quest for the Dark Tower, the.