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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 watching a horror movie with the author:


The writers of the upcoming series Castle Rock have stated that ‘salem’s Lot will play some role within the show:



In his interview with Vulture.com, Stephen King pointed out that, due to the recent resurgence in his brand, there has been renewed interest in a ‘salem’s Lot feature film.

Stephen King’s 1983 talk at the Billerica Library in Massachusets:


Some important tips for writing from Stephen King:


In this first episode, I touched briefly on Stephen King’s connection to Lovecraft. Explore that connection more deeply in the article “The Turtle Can’t Help Us: The Lovecraft Legacy in Stephen King’s It” by Margaret L.Carter.

Robert Bloch’s fictional occult book De Vermis Mysteriis (Mysteries of the Worm), from his short story The Shambler from the Stars, not only appeared in King’s short story Jerusalem’s Lot, but makes an unnamed cameo in ‘salem’s Lot, and later shows up in King’s novel Revival.

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