Marsten House Question

[Ryan002]

So, I'm interested in everyone's opinion about the relationship between evil old Marsten and The Master. How do you think the two are related?

Some of my own guesses are:

The Master needed a place tainted by great evil, and the Marsten House was ideal

The Marsten House is a naturally evil place, like 1408 or Pet Semetary, and attracts evil to itself. So the Master naturally moved there.

Marsten, who killed himself, is unable to go to heaven and returns as one of the undead.

Marsten invited the vampire to his house, because he hates the townsfolk and wanted them to suffer.

Marsten was one of The Master's minions.

[GNTLGNT]

All the above, and the property tax was really low...seriously though, evil attracts evil-it became the perfect lair for old long and toothy...

[Frank Florentino]

Hubert Barclay Marsten was a vicious mass-murdering Boston contract killer for hire whose bosses got him out of town after a young boy was found eviscerated. Exactly why he and his long-suffering wife, whom he shot dead before hanging himself in 1939, arrived in Salem's Lot is never actually clarified. However, Marsten began a correspondence with Kurt Barlow, which set the stage for Barlow and Straker to show up and wreak havoc in 1975, many decades later.