<p><b>With a stunning new cover look, King''s</b><b> chilling classic of a small new England town about to be engulfed in terror.</b><br><br><i>Turn off the television - in fact, why don''t you turn off all the lights except for the one over your favourite chair? - and we''ll talk about vampires here in the dim. I think I can make you believe in them. </i>Stephen King, from the Introduction. <br><br>''Salem''s Lot is a small New England town with the usual quota of gossips, drinkers, weirdos and respectable folk. Of course there are tales of strange happenings - but not more than in any other town its size.<br><br>Ben Mears, a moderately successful writer, returns to the Lot to write a novel based on his early years, and to exorcise the terrors that have haunted him since childhood. The event he witnessed in the house now rented by a new resident. A newcomer with a strange allure. A man who causes Ben some unease as things start to happen: a child disappears, a dog is brutally killed -