Salem's Lot by Stephen King

This book brings a gut wrenching feeling from beginning to end (or i'm just coming down with the flu.) lol

The darkness and horror of the Marsten House is the main horror in this book because of the link between that house, the Main character Ben, a writer that once lived in The Lot at a young age, and the history of the towns child disappearances when the Marsten House isn't vacant.

The guest room window faced directly east, and the top arc of the sun had just cleared the horizon. The first pellucid rays shone directly through the window, isolating a few golden motes as it fell in a shaft to the white linen sheet that was pulled up to Mike Ryerson's chest.

     Ben looked at Matt and nodded. "He's all right," he whispered. "Sleeping"

     Matt said tonelessly, "The window's open. It was closed and locked. I made sure of it."

     Ben's eyes centered on the upper hem of the flawlessly laundered sheet that covered Mike. There was a single small drop of blood on it, dried to maroon.

-Stephen King

Salem's Lot

This is my favorite paragraph of Matt's thoughts of Mike being a Vampire after the frightening night.

Setting- Salem's Lot in the 1975 end of Summer towards the Beggining of Autumn.

Each part begins with a quote from diffrent people

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absoulute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill house, not  sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness withe; it had stood for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and watever walked there, walked alone.

-Shirley Jackson

The haunting of Hill House

And travelers now within that valley

     Through the red-litten windows see

Vast forms that move fantastically

     To a discordant melody;

While, like a rapid ghastly river,

     Through the pale door,

A hideous throng rush out forever

     and laugh-but smile no more.

-Edgar Allan Poe

The Haunted Palace

White Fang

by Jack London

 This section will have a short summary of each section and chapter.

Part One:

The Wild

I. The Trail of the Meat

Two mushers and six sled dogs are transporting a coffin and as they stop to rest they find out that one of the dogs did not get fed when he served six pieces of meat. Then when they wake up in the morning one of the dogs had gone missing.

II. The She-Wolf

When they woke up another dog was missing and they noticed that the wolf pack was still following them. As they are traveling the She-Wolf lures another one of the dogs to the pack.

III.The Hunger Cry

The sled becomes wedged stopping them from traveling and when they stopped to unstuck it the She-Wolf lured another dog and as he ran back to the sled the pack stops the dog and as that happens one of the mushers chases after them trying to get the dog back. After all that event the last musher and the last two dogs were still being followed by the pack. Every night the man would drive them back with hot brands til the fire grew smaller and leaving him unprotected. Then other people find him and drive the wolf back saving him.

Part Two:

Born of the Wild

IV.The Battle of the Fangs

The pack travels and comes down to the last four wolfs. The three male wolfs fight and it ends with the elder winning.

V.The Lair

The male wolf find a large cave and ventures many miles for food. He comes across porcupine and a lynx, and the lynx leaves after being attack from the porcupine allowing the wolf to kill the porcupine.

VI.The Gray Cub

The Gray Cub began to explore the world and learned the feeling of pain.

VII.The Wall of the World

VIII.The Law of Meat

Part Three:

The Gods of the Wild

IX.The Makers of Fire

X.The Bondage

XI.The Outcast

XII.The Trail of the Gods

XIII.The Covenant

XIV.The Famine

Part Four:

The Superior Gods

XV.The Enemy of His Kind

XVI.The Mad God

XVII.The Reign of Hate

XVIII.The Clinging Death

XIX.The Indomitable

XX.The Love-Master

Part Five:

The Tame

XXI.The Long Trail

XXII.The Southland

XXIII.The God's Domain

XXIV.The Call of Kind

XXV.The Sleeping Wolf

My fav. scenes in the book are when White Fang is pitted against numerous dogs and defeats them with them making a move. Til he is pitted against a Bull Dog and is trapped til the end of the fight.