PLEASE CONSIDER SUPPORTING LEGACY OF THE MARSTEN HOUSE THROUGH PATREON! Join the discussion on all things ‘salem’s Lot on social media: On Facebook at Legacy of the Marsten House On Twitter @SuchADarkThing You can find my book Such a Dark Thing: Theology of the Vampire Narrative in Popular Culture at Amazon. Legacy of the Marsten House is also available through Stitcher and iTunes ! Some audio clips are taken from the 1995 BBC Radio 4 dramatization. Fun fact: Doug Bradley (Pinhead) played Barlow in this version. The UHF station WUAB 43 out of Cleveland featured Superhost on Saturday afternoons and was a major influence on my tastes growing up. Gargoyles was Stan Winston’s first film as lead creature designer: The copy of ‘salem’s Lot purchased for me by my parents in 1979, a first Signet printing from 1976. This is still my favorite cover design. J.J. Abrams discusses Stephen King, Castle Rock, and
“Many of us . . . have had the experience of reading a great novel and suddenly becoming aware that it is reading us as well . . . The writer has created a living world with words, a vital communion that cannot be taken merely as an object of study but one that draws out our meanings even as we draw its meaning out.” - Parker Palmer Stating that popular culture is in the midst of a Stephen King renaissance would not be a controversial statement by any metric. Aside from the author’s steady stream of novels and short stories - most recently co-authoring Sleeping Beauties with his son Owen King - both television and cinema have been overflowing with adaptations from the Master of Horror. From the recent record shattering cinematic adaptation of IT, to the critically acclaimed Netflix one-two punch of Gerald’s Game and 1922, to the upcoming JJ Abrams produced series Castle Rock, Stephen King is a hot Hollywood commodity once again. Why the resurgence? On some level it could be as s