Aftermath for the vampires (post-book questions)

[Dan Olwell]

Mostly some things I'd be curious to hear a theory on and obviously we'd need to consider the events of One for the Road from Night Shift.

Here goes.....


1. Even though Salem's Lot takes place in a different era than we live in today (for the timeline), is it unreasonable to wonder why the State Police or feds never came in and tore the town to pieces looking for clues?

In theory, sooner or later a search would turn up a few hiding places and eventually someone would start piecing things together. Seems like if this sort of widespread disappearance of people happened in real life, a massive search would take place. But I also like to believe it would have happened during the timeline Salem's Lot takes place in.


2. Just how far could you count on the vampires branching out? In SL and One For the Road (OFTR), we see a number of characters depicted as living and working just mere miles from Jerusalem's Lot. They carry crucifixes but don't seem to be overly worried, otherwise they'd move further away.

It would seem like such a large number of vampires would get tired of waiting for a few hitchhikers or drifters a year to accidentally wander into their town after dark. So eventually, you'd think some of them would start making headway into nearby towns. Wouldn't you? We see a little of this mentioned in the press clippings collected by Ben Mears, but not a whole lot more detail than that.

More reasons why Stephen King should write a seqaul to 'Salem's Lot!!!

[Steep]

I agree there should be a sequal. it would be logical for the vampires to venture off instead of waiting for hitchhikers or other people to accidently end up in the Lot. The same argument could be made about It as well.

[aeroplane]

All we really know is that the vampires were eating wild animals, at least warm-blooded types. One main problem with relying on hitchhikers to show up every few months is that a single hitchhiker will usually feed only one vampire, at least a couple of vampires who are either working together or competing for the human's blood. We have to assume there are probably still a minimum of 300-500 vampires in town, even after the fire. The other question is that presumably people who lived in town for a long time would figure out somewhere to hide, even if Mears burned down their home(s). However, if you recollect the One For The Road story with the family from New Jersey, where in heck are they expected to hide during the daytime hours? That's a tough call.

[muskrat]

Allright, let's say eventually life DOES return to Salem's Lot, right? And soon it's a thriving community, although some weird characters exist there...and a teenage girl named Bella moves there and meets an odd guy named Edward, and...

Oh dear GOD, someone shoot me...

[Dan Olwell]

All the more reason for another book Mr. King.

[Sundrop]

Allright, let's say eventually life DOES return to Salem's Lot, right? And soon it's a thriving community, although some weird characters exist there...and a teenage girl named Bella moves there and meets an odd guy named Edward, and...

Oh dear GOD, someone shoot me...

Edward is probably gonna be played by Gary Busey in the movie, right?......