People have told me that this was the scariest Stephen King book they have ever read and while I did thoroughly enjoy this book, I wasn't all that scared. It could be because I listened to the audiobook and the narrator wasn't very suspenseful, or maybe it was because I went into it thinking I was going to be scared stupid, whatever the reason it wasn't nearly as scary as I thought Pet Semetary was. Salem's Lot is Stephen King's take on the Vampires and Dracula, but set in a small, sleepy Maine town. When some out of town folks buy the creepy old Marsden house, things in town suddenly start getting bad. People are scared to go out at night and people are disappearing. Told mainly through the eyes of Ben Meers, an author staying in the town boardinghouse while he writes a novel, and through the eyes of various townsfolk. I liked the multiple town people perspectives because it showed the slow progression of wrongness taking over the town. Another great Stephen King novel, but I don't know if this one makes it in my top 10.
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