“I heard a voice, crying from the deep:
Come join me, baby, in my endless sleep.”
I think it’s interesting King chose to have Mark and Ben become the ultimate heroes of the novel. Ben I can understand. I mean, he is the main protagonist of the story. However Mark is just a little kid who likes to play with toy Frakensteins and Draculas. Through his love of monsters and lore he possesses a good deal of knowledge on how to dispatch them. Which I guess grants him a high level of survivability. Ben is able to deliver the final blow to the master vampire, Barlow, however I believe in the end Barlow is the real victor. The evil creature was able to create such a large army of undead that Ben and Mark were forced out of the ghost town by the insurmountable odds against them. Even after they return to ‘Salem’s Lot at the tail end of the novel to attempt to finish the job Ben explains to Mark that some of them will still live.
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