Favorite scenes from Salem's Lot

[michal]

My all-times favorite scene is when Mark is trying to free himself from the ropes in the Marsten House. It is so good that I must have read it hundreds of times.

[ItFan]

I have a few memorable scenes/moments (most of which have been mentioned already):

1) Mark's first appearance - the way he stands up to the bully (remind anyone of Henry Bowers?)
2) Mark wriggling his way out of the rope Straker has tied him up with in the Marsten House - I think I held my breath while I was reading that part!
3) Jimmy's death - now, I'm not saying I enjoyed this part, but I really wasn't expecting it, and was constantly thinking about it while reading the rest!

[Midten]

Let's see:
1)Marks first appearance.
2)Marks escape from the house
3) Father Callahan's disgrace (this has to be one of the most scariest and gruesome scene the book
4)Barlow's death

[DancingCorpse]

Yeah I agree with what was said a couple posts ago, when Parkins can hear the macabre goings on in the Lot and he daren't venture out during the night, that is pretty freaky and intense. There's literally nowhere to run and no one to trust in such a small environment as that.

[GNTLGNT]

The disgrace of the Father...(which leads to redemption along the Path of the Beam.)

[Midten]

Oh yeah, and the scene with the men going inside the house for the delivery.

[dsurrett]

It's been a while since I've read the book and have forgotten most of the names, probably because I read it via audiobook and never saw the names in black and white, but my favorite scene is where the two men are in the mortuary and the dead (undead?) woman (Marjorie Glick?) under the sheet starts to move.

[popsqueak]

I like the whole interesting story about the Marsten house, love scary houses, I thought SK described the house throughout the book wonderfully and have now got Shirley Jackson's House on Haunted Hill out of the library, this book was quoted in SL.
Also the new boy beating the bully, fantastic!!!

[Aericanwizard]

I've read the book three times now, once a few years back, and then recently as a back-to-back print-audio marathon (something I never do), and my favourite part changes with each reading. I think it might be because on each re-read, I sympathise with a different character, and the book is a whole new experience. Takes a gifted author to do that.

The first time I read it, the scenes that stuck with me the most were when Danny first visited Mike in the night , and of course the terrible fate of Pere Callahan .

The second reading, I couldn't get [spoiler] Danny Glick's Burial [\spoiler] out of my head, and given how that is played out, that creeped me out.

Upon the audio re-read, it was the scene [spoiler] in the funeral home, where Ben and Jimmy are waiting with the recently deceased Marjorie Glick [\spoiler]. Although I knew it was coming, it still scared the bejeesus out of me.

I'll probably do another re-read in the future, and I'm sure that I'll have a new favourite part.


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