Stephen Kings second novel the classic vampire bestseller SALEMS LOT tells the story of evil in smalltown America. Salems Lot is a small New England town with white clapboard houses treelined streets and solid church steeples. That summer in salems Lot was a summer of homecoming and return spring burned out and the land lying dry crackling underfoot. Late that summer Ben Mears returned to salems Lot hoping to cast out his own devils and found instead a new unspeakable horror.