Salem’s Lot is Stephen King second novel published in 1975 and one of the best vampire novels of all time.
The novel has been adapted three times for television. The first, and most remembered, was as a miniseries in 1979 with David Soul playing the role of Ben Mears and Reggie Nalder giving life to the terrifying vampire. A series that was directed by Tobe Hooper, a reliable director in the horror genre, so the result was a terrifying series, which marked many of the young people who managed to see it at the time, bypassing parental control and then having nightmares, especially with the mythical scene in which a vampire child tries to enter through the window in the house of his friend, the young Mark Petrie.
The artist Cera has recreated this scene in a somewhat more erotic way, in which Petrie, now grown up, prefers another type of vampire…
