Prokletí Salemu – King Stephen (2025)

Jerusalem's Lot is a quiet town in New England. But beneath its old-fashioned exterior lies an evil that is just waiting for someone to awaken it. Everyone hides something; everyone has a stain on their soul. The spiritual leader, Father Callahan, drinks excessively and no longer believes in God, seventeen-year-old Sandy McDougall beats her one-year-old child when he misbehaves, and Bonne Sawyer is unfaithful to her husband with practically everyone she meets. And on top of all this, the abandoned and eerie Marsten House looms over the town, which someone has suddenly begun to inhabit. And no one suspects that it is from there, in the form of a vampire, Mr. Barlow, and his assistant Straker, that apocalyptic doom is coming. Least of all the average thriller writer Ben Mears, who returns to Salem after years to find lost peace... King's early novel 'Salem's Lot builds a suffocating atmosphere of horror gradually and at a hypnotically slow pace. Do not expect a happy ending, do not expect a clear division between good and evil, because the worst evil is not a supernatural being but the human being himself.