Salem?s Lot published in 1975 was which writer?s second novel?
"Jerusalem's Lot (Stephen King) Jerusalem's Lot, Maine (often shortened to 'Salem's Lot or just the Lot) is a fictional town and a part of writer Stephen King's fictional Maine topography. 'Salem's Lot has served as the setting for a number of his novels, novellas, and short stories. 'Salem's Lot first appeared in King's 1975 novel ""'Salem's Lot"", and has reappeared as late as his 2013 novel ""Doctor Sleep"" (see list below). The town is described as being located in Cumberland County, between (or including parts of) the towns of Falmouth, Windham, and Cumberland, near the southern part of the state"
"Salem's Lot (2004 miniseries) Salem's Lot is a 2004 American two-part television mini-series which first aired on TNT on June 20 and ended its run on June 21, 2004. It is the second television adaptation of Stephen King's 1975 vampire novel of the same name (the first version was made in 1979). Although the novel and original miniseries were both set in the 1970s, this version updates the story to take place in the 2000s. The story is still set in a small Maine town, but the mini-series was actually shot on location at Creswick and Woodend, in Central Victoria,"
"house Doubleday. King had thrown an early draft of the novel into the trash after becoming discouraged with his progress writing about a teenage girl with psychic powers. His wife retrieved the manuscript and encouraged him to finish it. His advance for ""Carrie"" was $2,500; King's paperback rights later earned $400,000. King and his family moved to southern Maine because of his mother's failing health. At this time, he began writing a book titled ""Second Coming"", later titled ""Jerusalem's Lot"", before finally changing the title to ""Salem's Lot"" (published 1975). In a 1987 issue of ""The Highway Patrolman"" magazine, he"
"Salem's Lot (radio drama) Salem’s Lot was a 1995 BBC Radio 4 dramatization of Stephen King’s novel ""'Salem's Lot"" written by Gregory Evans. It combines the psychological thriller and the classic horror genres, making references to Bram Stoker’s ""Dracula"" at several points and sometimes replicating its storyline. Ben Mears, a successful writer who grew up in the (fictional) town of Jerusalem’s Lot, Maine (known to locals as ""Salem's Lot"" or ""The Lot""), has returned home following the death of his wife. Ben plans to write a book about the “Marsten House”, an abandoned mansion that gave him nightmares after a"
"Julie Ann Dawson Julie Ann Dawson (born August 1971), is an American horror fiction writer, RPG designer, and publisher. Dawson was born in Millville, New Jersey. While attending high school, she was inspired by Stephen King's novel Salem's Lot to become a writer. She also worked for her high school newspaper. She graduated from Bridgeton High School in Bridgeton, New Jersey in 1989. After high school, she enrolled in Glassboro State College. There, she worked for both the college's newspaper and magazine. While at Glassboro, she also began publishing stories and poems in various publications, including Dan DeBono's Gareth Blackmore's"
"for Pfizer, Eastman Kodak, IBM, and the United States Army, among others. He also received a National Institute of Arts and Letters grant, a Rockefeller grant, and two National Endowment for the Arts grants, all of which helped him write his second novel. In 1975 he published ""J R"", told almost entirely in unattributed dialogue. Its eponymous protagonist, an 11-year-old, learns enough about the stock market from a class field trip to build a financial empire of his own. Critical opinion had caught up with him, and the book won the National Book Award for Fiction. His marriage to his"
"the idea. It occurred to me that my wife was probably right – if the legendary Count came to New York, that is. But if he were to show up in a sleepy little country town, what then? I decided I wanted to find out, so I wrote ""<nowiki>'</nowiki>Salem's Lot"", which was originally titled ""Second Coming"""". Though King initially planned to title the novel ""Second Coming"", he changed it to ""Jerusalem's Lot"" on the advice of his wife, novelist Tabitha King, who thought the original title sounded too much like a ""bad sex story."" King's publishers then shortened it to"
"Second Foundation Second Foundation is the third novel published of the ""Foundation"" Series by American writer Isaac Asimov, and the fifth in the in-universe chronology. It was first published in 1953 by Gnome Press. ""Second Foundation"" consists of two previously published novellas originally published in ""Astounding Magazine"" (with different titles) between 1948 and 1950, making this the third volume in Asimov's ""Foundation"" series. Decades later, Asimov wrote two further sequel novels and two prequels. Later writers have added authorized tales to the series. The ""Foundation"" series is often regarded as one of Isaac Asimov's best works, along with his ""Robot"""
"young girl whose father is arrested because of his political activities, and a Palestinian guerrilla fighter captured by the Israeli forces. ""Pillars of Salt"", her second novel, was published by Quartet Books in 1996, and has been translated into German, Danish, Dutch, Romanian and Bulgarian. Set in colonial and postcolonial Jordan, according to one critic, the novel ‘stands between East and West, and combines Arabic traditional storytelling with postmodern narrative tricks’. There is a strong feminist message concerning two Arab women, one a Bedouin, the other from the town, incarcerated in an asylum through the actions of their brother and"
"fiction, these are my constant concerns as a novelist."" 1% In 1969, published his second novel, ""The Loum"", the climbing of whose phallic peak haunts the author's later writings. In this audacious novel with its salacious passages, His Excellency the Lord began climbing, with his old mother, this huge rocky spur that points to the sky in a singular struggle. This book is also presented as an ""psychoanalytic epic ."" René Victor Pilhes says of it: """"The Loum is the story of a terrible battle between mother and son."" ""[...] Is: ""I will, once and for all, demonstrate to you"
"Salem's Lot (1979 miniseries) Salem's Lot (also known as Salem's Lot: The Movie, Salem's Lot: The Miniseries and Blood Thirst) is a 1979 American miniseries television adaptation of the horror novel of the same name by Stephen King. Directed by Tobe Hooper and starring David Soul and James Mason, the plot concerns a writer who returns to his hometown and discovers that its citizens are turning into vampires. ""Salem's Lot"" combines elements of both the vampire film and haunted house subgenres of horror. At a church in Guatemala, a man and a boy, Ben Mears and Mark Petrie, are filling"
"A Return to Salem's Lot A Return to Salem's Lot is a 1987 American horror film co-written and directed by Larry Cohen and starring Michael Moriarty, Andrew Duggan and Samuel Fuller. It is a sequel to the classic 1979 miniseries ""Salem's Lot"". Michael Moriarty plays an amoral anthropologist who has been lumbered with his dysfunctional adolescent son (Ricky Addison Reed). He returns to Salem's Lot, the town of his birth, to find that it has been taken over by the undead. A few living people are kept around to provide blood for the vampires and to operate the gas station"
"for 1979 and quickly attracted critical success. His second novel ""Battlefields and Playgrounds"", was ten years in the writing. ""Battlefields and Playgrounds"" (Macmillan, London and Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York) has been published in several languages, all over the world. His third novel, ""Curtain Up!"", is set in Spain, France and England during the 1960s. It was completed in 2002, shortly before his death. It was his second novel, of which the Wall Street Journal wrote: ""Although hardly a month passes without some new account surfacing about a writer’s childhood during the Holocaust, nothing in recent memory approaches the"
"second novel, ""Man Walking on Eggshells"" appeared in 1962, supposedely as part one of a trilogy titled ""Destined to Free"". However, parts two and three, tentatively titled ""Tough Country"" and ""The Land of Nod"" never appeared and it is not known whether Simmons ever completed them. Following the 1965 Watts riots in Los Angeles the Watts Writers Workshop was established with Simmons one of the key participants. Later, he became a lecturer at California State University, Northridge, retiring in the mid-1990s. Little is known about him, and he hasn't published new material since 1962, however his two novels have seen"
"Kurt Barlow Kurt Barlow is a fictional character and main antagonist of Stephen King's 1975 horror novel, ""Salem's Lot"". The character is a master vampire, who terrorizes the small Maine town of Jerusalem's Lot. Although his true age is unknown, he claims to be ancient, so old that he predates the founding of Christianity by centuries. Before the events of the novel, it is suggested that Barlow's original name or alias was Breichen and that he was an Austrian nobleman. As Breichen, Barlow corresponded for twelve years with Hubert ""Hubie"" Marsten, a former Depression-era Boston hitman living in the town"
"The Second Lady The Second Lady is a political thriller by Irving Wallace. Commercial Reception The Second Lady was a New York Times bestseller; it was on the list for nine weeks, peaking at #8.[1] Film Adaptation The novel was adapted into a Hindi feature film Sharara (film) (1984) starring Hema Malini .[2] References 1. ^ ""Adult New York Times Best Seller Lists for 1980"" . Hawes.com . Retrieved February 1, 2017. 2. ^ http://www.thehindu.com/2000/07/28/stories/09280225.htm External links ISBNDB Link This article about a thriller novel of the 1980s is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it ."
"way. Kurt Barlow Kurt Barlow is a fictional character and main antagonist of Stephen King's 1975 horror novel, ""Salem's Lot"". The character is a master vampire, who terrorizes the small Maine town of Jerusalem's Lot. Although his true age is unknown, he claims to be ancient, so old that he predates the founding of Christianity by centuries. Before the events of the novel, it is suggested that Barlow's original name or alias was Breichen and that he was an Austrian nobleman. As Breichen, Barlow corresponded for twelve years with Hubert ""Hubie"" Marsten, a former Depression-era Boston hitman living in the"
"commemorative edition in 2012 by New York Review Books with an afterword by Dan Chaon. The Other (novel) The Other is the 1971 debut novel by Thomas Tryon. Set in 1935, the novel focuses on the sadistic relationship between two thirteen-year-old identical twin boys, one who is well-behaved, and the other a sociopath who wreaks havoc on his family's rural New England farm property. Tryon, who had been a working actor prior, retired from his Hollywood career to become a novelist. Upon its release, the novel received wide critical acclaim, and was adapted into a 1972 film of the same"
"the current title, thinking the author's choice sounded too religious. King's paperback publisher bought the book for $550,000. King expands on this thought of the 20th-century vampire in his essay for ""Adeline Magazine"", ""On Becoming a Brand Name"" (February 1980): ""I began to turn the idea over in my mind, and it began to coalesce into a possible novel. I thought it would make a good one, if I could create a fictional town with enough prosaic reality about it to offset the comic-book menace of a bunch of vampires."" Yet the inspirations for ""'Salem's Lot"" go back even farther."
"second novel, Pollen:by then I had really discovered the melancholic joys of house and techno music, and I think the novel reflects that change. Pollen is a much more tangled book, more fertile, a very overgrown, edge-of-wilderness narrative."" Pollen (novel) Pollen is a 1995 science fiction novel written by British author Jeff Noon. ""Pollen"" is the sequel to ""Vurt"" and concerns the ongoing struggle between the real world and the virtual world. When concerning the virtual world, some references to Greek mythology are noticeable, including Persephone and Demeter, the river Styx and Charon, and Hades (portrayed by the character John"
"held the number one position on this list. Second Honeymoon (Patterson novel) Second Honeymoon is a novel written on the same pattern as Honeymoon, written by James Patterson and Howard Roughan in 2005. Therefore, it is considered the second novel of a series. This book has two plots. The primary plot concerns a serial killer who targets newlyweds on their honeymoons. FBI agent John O'Hara (who was central to the first book of this series) works this case, trying to determine who the killer is and why the killer targets particular newlyweds, but in a seemingly random manner. The second"
"and while they couldn't have been kinder to me and more helpful, I was scared of them too. I thought, I'll never be able to do what these guys do. Although Lerman published a second book in 1975, she eventually withdrew from her literary career and undertook a more conventional life with marriage and (nonliterary) job. Much later (2001), her career as a writer resumed when Sarabande Books commissioned her third volume of poetry, ""The Mystery of Meteors"". She reports a second ""rescue"", long after the first by her high school teacher; this was ""by my current publisher Sarabande, who"
"of the Salem ""Witch Dungeon"" and colonial era crime and punishment. Cahill was born and raised in Salem, Massachusetts and also wrote several auto-biographical books, one recounting his experiences as Sheriff, and another relating tales of his childhood growing up in New England during World War II. Cahill's most widely distributed lore and histories are mostly in the form of small books that can still be found in large quantities within souvenir shops located at tourist attractions throughout New England. New England Collectible Classics (Chandler-Smith Publishing) Old Salt Box Publishing House Robert Ellis Cahill Robert Ellis Cahill (November 25, 1934"
"The Second Trip The Second Trip is a 1972 science fiction novel by American writer Robert Silverberg. Prior to its publication by Doubleday, it was published in serialized form in ""Amazing Stories"" from July to September 1971. The novel is set in the year 2011; about forty years from the time it was written. Because capital punishment has been deemed too harsh, violent criminals are subjected to coercive therapy that effectively erases their personalities, which are replaced with artificially constructed memories to form a character deemed useful to society. The protagonist is Paul Macy, a rehabilitated criminal who finds his"
"second novel was first published in French as """" in 1973 and in Czech as ""Život je jinde"" in 1979. Set in Czechoslovakia before, during and after the Second World War, ""Life Is Elsewhere"" is a satirical portrait of the fictional poet Jaromil, a young and very naive idealist who becomes involved in political scandals. In 1975, Kundera moved to France. There he published ""The Book of Laughter and Forgetting"" (1979) which told of Czechoslovak citizens opposing the communist regime in various ways. An unusual mixture of novel, short story collection and author's musings, the book set the tone for"
"vampire legend are provided in Nalo Hopkinson's novel ""Brown Girl In The Ring"" (1998), which features the Soucouyant, a vampire of Caribbean folklore, and in Tananarive Due's ""My Soul to Keep"" (1995) and its sequel ""The Living Blood"" (2001). One of the more traditional vampire works of the twentieth century is Stephen King's ""'Salem's Lot"" (1975), which reimagines the archetypal ""Dracula""-type story in a modern American small town setting. King acknowledged the influence of ""Dracula"" on the work, as well as the violent, pre-Comics Code vampires portrayed in horror comics such as those released by E.C. Comics. In 1989 a"
"Salman Rushdie Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, ""Midnight's Children"" (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be ""the best novel of all winners"" on two separate occasions, marking the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. He combines magical realism with historical fiction; his work is concerned with the many connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations. His fourth novel, ""The Satanic Verses"" (1988), was the subject of a major"
"Award for the All-Time Best Fantasy Novel in 1987. In two separate interviews in the 1980s King said that, of all his books, ""Salem's Lot"" was his favorite. In his June 1983 ""Playboy"" interview, the interviewer mentioned that because it was his favorite, King was planning a sequel, but King has said on his website that because ""The Dark Tower"" series already continued the narrative in the """" and """", he felt there was no longer a need for a sequel. In 1987 he told Phil Konstantin in ""The Highway Patrolman"" magazine: ""In a way it is my favorite story,"
"Second Fiddle (novel) Second Fiddle (1988) is a best-selling novel by British author Mary Wesley. Twenty-three years old Claud Bannister has just failed his exam to be an accountant and is determined to give up his studies and become a writer. He is introduced to Laura Thornby at a concert. Laura is forty-five, single and a notorious meddler. When she hears about Claud's plans, and learns that he is living with his mother, Laura immediately starts rearranging his life. In no time Claud finds himself installed in a rented loft and making a living by selling antiques from a stall"
"The Second Round (novel) The Second Round is an English language novel by Sierra Leonian-Gambian writer and poet Lenrie Peters. The novel is Peters' first and only novel. The novel was first published in 1965, and subsequently reprinted in 1966 as part of the influential Heinemann African Writers Series. The novel is semi-autobiographical, following the experience of a western educated doctor, Dr. Kawa, who returns to Freetown to practice medicine. Critics describe the novel as reflecting the concerns of West Africans during the immediately post-colonial African community, nationalism, westernization, the difficulty adjusting to returning to Africa from abroad, and the"
"importance in solving the mystery. His second novel, ""Sins and Innocents"", published in 2011 and received the ""Sedat Simavi Literature Prize"" that is a prominent literature award in Turkey. It tells a story of two people whose paths come across on a foreign land. A woman carries a ""book"" and believes in poetry. A man, suffering from insomnia, struggles to survive through graves. Each of them has got a secret and a sin. On the day they meet the woman reads his fortune in the ""book"" and he sings the songs of desert. ""Sins and Innocents"" tells the story of"
"novel after being persuaded to do so by her second husband Oscar Lerman. ""You're a storyteller"", he told her. After its publication, romantic novelist Barbara Cartland called the book ""nasty, filthy and disgusting"", and charged Collins with ""creating every pervert in Britain"". The book was banned in Australia and South Africa, but the scandal bolstered sales in the United States and the UK. Her second novel, ""The Stud"", was published in 1969. It also made the best-seller lists. Collins' third novel, ""Sunday Simmons & Charlie Brick"" (first published under the title ""The Hollywood Zoo"" in the UK and then retitled"
"Stanisław Lem Stanisław Herman Lem (; 12 or 13 September 1921 – 27 March 2006) was a Polish writer of science fiction, philosophy, and satire, and a trained physician. Lem's books have been translated into 41 languages and have sold over 45 million copies. From the 1950s to 2000s, he published many books, both science fiction and philosophical/futurological. He is best known as the author of the 1961 novel ""Solaris"", which has been made into a feature film three times. In 1976, Theodore Sturgeon wrote that Lem was the most widely read science fiction writer in the world. Lem's works"