Here is my question: Why did King decide to wait 184 pages, one third of the entire novel, to revel the vampire?
It’s pretty clear early on that something is not quite right the small town of ‘Salem’s Lot. However, that “something” is not clear until page 184. We have a creepy guy buying a (apparently) haunted house. He has a mysterious partner no one ever sees. Ben saw a ghost as a kid in the aforementioned haunted house. A couple of boys go missing. And something very strange happens to Mike Ryerson while he is burying Danny Glick’s casket. The meat of the novel up until now has basically just been describing the daily lives of the people who live in ‘Salem’s Lot. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve enjoyed the novel very much up to this point, however it hasn’t read at all like a horror story. Maybe a mystery, but not a horror story.
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