Ben and Mark set the Marsten House alight, and during a chase with Charlie, who was vampirized by the town's children, a gas station is damaged and explodes. When Susan turns to attack Mark, Ben destroys her. Susan tells Ben that the boy he failed to rescue was already dead Ben was never to blame. Destroying Barlow has not saved Susan, who arrives at the house. Ben and Mark destroy Barlow, but not before he taunts Ben, likening Ben to himself as another parasite who preys on the tragedies of others. Ben, Jimmy and Mark realize Barlow is hiding at Eva's boarding house, but as they arrive there, Jimmy is killed by a booby trap. In the hospital, Burke is murdered by Callahan. The town's ranking police officer, Sheriff Parkins Gillespie, discovers what is going on in Salem's Lot and decides to leave. Larry sees Ruth join Dud in the night, and despite his wish to be with her, is consumed by the vampires. Callahan is forced to drink Barlow's blood, corrupting Callahan and turning him into Barlow's servant. Instead of destroying her, Ben intends to find and destroy Barlow, hopeful Susan might be restored upon his destruction.Īfter Barlow kills Mark's mother, Callahan tries saving Mark by confronting Barlow, but finds his religious faith is not strong enough. They begin destroying the sleeping vampires in the cellar, but Ben discovers Susan has been turned.
In the Marsten house, they find Straker's body hanging from the rafters, having been drained of blood by Barlow. Ben, Mark, Callahan and Cody begin acting as vampire hunters. Mark escapes, but Susan is taken to the cellar to meet Barlow. Susan and schoolboy Mark Petrie are captured by Straker when they break into the Marsten house. Ben refuses to allow him to enter his cell, and Floyd is found dead in his own cell the following morning, having chewed open his wrists in an attempt to drink his own blood. After starting a fight with Ben, Floyd and Ben spend the night in jail, and Floyd uses his vampire powers to crawl through the ventilation shaft to taunt Ben. Floyd is bitten by Dud and slowly becomes a vampire. Ben's blossoming relationship with Susan causes jealousy with her old boyfriend Floyd Tibbits. He returns from the grave as a vampire to tempt gay high school teacher Matt Burke, who repels him but suffers a heart attack. Laborer Mike Ryerson buries Danny after his funeral, then also sickens and dies.
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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.