Salem's Lot

About Salem's Lot

Ben Mears has returned to his hometown to write a book about the supposedly haunted Marsten House. When people around the Marsten House start dying mysteriously, Mears discovers that the owner of the mansion is actually a vampire who is turning them into an army of undead slaves.

CBS's Salem's Lot is a mystery series, created by Paul Monash and Stephen King. David Soul leads the cast as Ben Mears, James Mason as Richard K. Straker, Lance Kerwin as Mark Petrie, and Bonnie Bedelia as Susan Norton.

It reached one season of 2 episodes from November 1979. The series began as a novel.

Shelv files it under writer, house, hometown, and home. It scores 6.8 out of 10 from 555 TMDB voters and it carries a TV-PG rating.

The Perfect Couple, Salem's Lot, and The Strain make useful companions to Salem's Lot, all filed under miniseries and new england.