[drjimmy]

I think one of the creepiest scenes in a movie is when the dead kid was scratching at the window asking to be let in. I think that was "Salem's Lot".
The very first Stephen King book I read was "Salem's Lot," as a freshman in college. When I got to that scene in the book, and the boy uses the cross from the graveyard of his Frankenstein model to ward off the vampire kid, I was hooked. I had that very same model when I was a kid! The thing about Stephen King is that his stories contain situations and props that almost anyone can relate to, very ordinary and mundane stuff, then uses them to scare the pants off you. I finished "Salem's Lot" in about 24 hours of straight reading, since I couldn't go to sleep with his images in my head. The original miniseries version was definitely a good fright. The remake from a few months ago was just awful.

[hobbes1]

finished "Salem's Lot" in about 24 hours of straight reading, since I couldn't go to sleep with his images in my head.

That's funny.

The first King book I read was The Stand, I was in the 8th Grade home with the flu, and read it overnight, in one sitting. Creeped the hell out of me.....Especially the Lincoln Tunnel part....

[luckystarmom]

His books are always better than the movies/mini-series.

I thought the best verson of his book was the mini-series "The Stand".