![]() Stephen King knew he wanted to write horror stories his whole life and published his first scary story in a fanzine, Comics Review, when he was 15. Like the Marsten House, the town has a creepy old house that King and his friends explored growing up. Jerusalem’s Lot is a fictional town, but it is based on the “Methodist Corners” area of Durham, Maine. Both the character of Ben Mears (a writer from Maine) and Mark Petrie (a boy obsessed with the macabre) resemble the author in his own words as he describes his upbringing in the autobiographical On Writing. Like many of his books, ‘ Salem’s Lot seems to be a thinly veiled autobiographical story about King himself injected with supernatural horror. The character of Ben Mears in Salem’s Lot(1975) is semi-autobiographical to Stephen King’s own life. Mears returns to Salem’s Lot after 25 years away to write his next book about the malevolent Marsten House, only to find that the house has been purchased by a vampire who is quickly taking over the town. The plot follows a writer named Ben Mears, who grew up in a small town in Maine called Jerusalem’s Lot, or ‘Salem’s Lot for short. ![]() Throughout the 80s, King maintained it was his favorite story he had ever written. ‘Salem’s Lot(1975) is the second novel published by Stephen King, after Carrie and before The Shining.
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