![]() ![]() Barlow meets Dud Rodgers, offering him a chance to be free of his physical disability, which he accepts, becoming a vampire. His brother Danny sickens and dies after being visited by Ralphie, who has become a vampire. Jimmy Cody after he has an affair with Sandy.įollowing Straker and Barlow's arrival, local child Ralphie Glick is murdered and his body is never found. Trailer park residents Roy and Sandy McDougall physically abuse their baby, blackmailing Dr. Charlie Rhodes, cruelty-obsessed Vietnam veteran and school bus driver, torments the children he transports. Eva Prunier, proprietor of the boarding house where Ben stays, played evil games with Marsten when she and her peers were teenagers. When Ruth spends time with a disabled garbageman named Dud Rodgers, Crockett gets him fired. Ben plans to rent the house to bring catharsis to himself and gather material for his novel, but discovers it has been sold by Larry Crockett to antique dealers Richard Straker and Kurt Barlow.ĭespite the picture perfect façade of the small town, Salem's Lot is rife with dark secrets: Crockett is an immoral businessman who sexually abuses his teenage daughter Ruth. Ben believes he heard Marsten's last victim crying for help, but Ben was too afraid to find or help him. Ben overheard Marsten begging for his life before seemingly committing suicide. ![]() Local legend said that Marsten murdered children. He tells Susan Norton, a waitress and former art student, that when he was a child he accepted a dare to enter the house of Hubie Marsten, a Prohibition-era gangster. On the day of February 6 two years ago, Ben, then a successful writer, returns to his hometown, Jerusalem's Lot (also known as "Salem's Lot" to the locals) in Maine, intending to write a novel. ![]() Ben then murmurs, "Jerusalem's Lot," and begins to tell his story. In the hospital where he and Callahan are taken, Ben is asked by an orderly why, as a Christian himself, he shouldn't just let Ben die for attacking a priest. As they corner each other in Callahan's office, the priest shoots Mears, who then shoves them both out a window onto the street (more specifically, onto a police car). Ben Mears attacks priest Donald Callahan in a homeless shelter in Detroit on Thanksgiving. ![]()
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