'Salem's Lot by Stephen King Size:Hardcover: 22.2 x 13.7 x 3.9 cm 'Many of our ideas spring

'Many of our ideas spring from actual accounts

shocking memories of a mother's death and a daughter's fatal illness

where Beethoven was his teacher

a pseudonym

a man alone

'Salem's Lot by Stephen King Size:Hardcover: 22.2 x 13.7 x 3.9 cm 'Many of our ideas spring'Salem's Lot is a small New England town. Like so many others it contains the usual quota of gossips, drunkards, weirdos and respectable folk. Of course there are tales of ghosts and strange happenings, skeletons in closests, people missing and never found but no more than in any other town of its size. Ben Mears, a moderately successful writer, returns to the Lot to write a novel based loosely on his life there as a child, and to exorcise finally the