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Essay / Salem's Lot by Stephen King - 592
In Stephen King's Salem's Lot brings a brilliantly written storm of force, King brings to life the creatures that have been roaming the Jerusalem city lot for centuries through the local rumors. The book Salem's Lot takes you through its twisting plot, with vivid characters, and the crazy turns it takes. Steven King has the power to make something so unrealistic very real. He is considered a Gothic literary writer because he expresses the key characteristics of Gothic literature in most of his stories. King has the ability to introduce key features of Gothic literature into the story by adding the ideas of a legend, using the setting of a small town to add drama, and using supernatural beings. Stephen King used ideas from Gothic literature by adding a small town. as the main parameter; the small town of Lot in Jerusalem. This helps emphasize the idea that a small town is not always as safe as it should be. No matter how well someone thinks they know someone in the city, there's always a chance they're wrong. The small-town setting allowed Steph...