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My name is Nancy and I am a horror movieholic. I glory in this. I had, in my mind, the advantage of growing up in a 200 year old haunted house, originally built by John Dickinson of the Declaration of Independence fame. I never saw a physical manifestation but many times heard the heavy, measured sounds of footsteps in the attic in an otherwise empty house, save for me. 
That creepiness was not enough for me: I delved into the world of vampires, ghosts, mummies and monsters courtesy of Universal Pictures and the family television. One Christmas, my parents bought me a huge poster of Bela Lugosi posing in his famous role as Dracula. I bought every issue of the FAMOUS MONSTERS magazine.
I was doing all the fangirl things. At that time, vampire films were my movies of choice. SALEM’S LOT rocked my world, first as a novel then the miniseries. I was in high school when Stephen King’s second novel, “Salem’s Lot” was published in October, 1975. I was mesmerized. A haunted house?
And a vampire?! How could I NOT like it? King was riding the wave of new success with his first published novel, “Carrie” a paperback best seller.
It was already being made into a major motion picture. “Salem’s Lot” became a blockbuster best seller, a novel inspired by King’s time as a high school teacher, teaching “Dracula” to his science fiction fantasy class. King wondered what would happen if Dracula came to the 20th century and landed in New York City. He toyed with that for a while until his wife, Tabitha, opined the setting should be a small town. It would offer a more intimate setting and a chance to integrate the fantastic story into a small town and all its gossip, dirty secrets, certainly a microcosm of the antics in the big city, but with a horrifying intimacy. Drop Dracula into that mix and you can have one hell of a vampire novel.
“Salem’s Lot” is one hell of a vampire novel and the 1979 adaptation actually improved on the story in a number of ways. I stress the year 1979 as there have been several adaptations of the novel. Warner Brothers snapped up the movie rights soon after the novel’s publication. The BBC produced a seven-part radio play of the novel in 1995.
TNT aired the second television adaptation in June 2004. (I have not seen that version but I do know they updated the time period from the mid-1970s to the 2000s.). King originally titled the novel “Second Coming” but he and his wife thought that would make the novel sound like a bad sex story. He re-titled it “Jerusalem’s Lot” but then there the concern it was too religious sounding. Thus, what would become King’s favorite came to be called “Salem’s Lot.” The novel and the film each represent a unique experience.