what was that stephen king short story

Subhuman · Post by **Subhuman** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 8:13 pm

edhead wrote:One of his best short stories imho is Jerusalem's Lot. Got some huge shivers while reading it, when I was 11.

That was a novel, not a short story.

edhead · Post by **edhead** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:52 am

Nope, Jerusalem's Lot was a short story set in 19th century, and it wasn't about vampires. 'Salem's Lot, which was written a tad later, on the other hand, WAS a novel. It had a completely different scenario, and it sucked.

Subhuman · Post by **Subhuman** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:00 pm

He never wrote a short story called Jerusalem's Lot. You must be thinking of somebody else.

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:46 pm

darryl is THE authority on stephen king books, dont mess with him

Post by **Dogmeatlives** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 11:11 pm

He definitely did write Jerusalem's Lot. It was about some long abondoned cult village wiht an entrance to hell or something. It was in one of his short story collections. I believe Graveyard Shift.

edhead · Post by **edhead** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 7:35 am

THE ultimate authority belongs to Wikipedia, which anyone can edit!

http://.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem's_Lot

EDIT: URL bug

Mr. Teatime · Post by **Mr. Teatime** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 9:16 am

It was the Mist, thanks, and I read it a couple of days ago. Just goes to show that you don't need 400 pages to establish characters and motivation and put them in a sort of scary situation.

Still I do think you can overread King. His books tend to deal with the same sort of people (some kind of writer guy, or artist, living in Maine, same kind of values and humour for them all), so it's lucky that there are other books out there, heh. I read about one of his books every two-three weeks - which, for me, is about one King book per 4 or 5 others - and that is just about the limit I think.

Richard Matheson's awesome, by the way, possibly my favourite author right now.