Salem's Lot

NY: Doubleday, 1975. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 6.5"x9.5" 439 numbered pages. Red boards. Black cloth boards w/gilt ink stamping. Spine straight, sewn binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), & unmarked. Edge wear to DJ w/small tears and creases, archival tape applied to back side of DJ. Secure ship w/track #. 'Salem's Lot is a small New England town with white clapboard houses, tree-lined streets, and solid church steeples. That summer in 'salem's 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 'salem's Lot hoping to cast out his own devils and found instead a new, unspeakable horror. A stranger had also come to the Lot, a stranger with a secret as old as evil, a secret that would wreak irreparable harm on those he touched and in turn on those they loved. All would be changed forever: Susan, whose love for Ben could not protect her; Father Callahan, the bad priest who put his eroded faith to one last test; and Mark, a young boy who sees his fantasy world become reality and ironically proves the best equipped to handle the relentless nightmare of 'Salem's Lot. Goodreads.