斯蒂芬·金（Stephen King，1947年—）

有史以来作品最多、读者最众、声名最大的作家之一。

编过剧本，写过专栏，执过导筒，做过制片人，还客串过演员。

作品总销量超过三亿五千万册，超过一百五十部影视作品改编自他的作品，由此创下一项吉尼斯世界记录。

被《纽约时报》誉为“现代惊悚小说大师”，更是读者心目中的“恐怖小说之王”。

六次荣获布莱姆•斯托克奖，六次荣获国际恐怖文学协会奖，1996年获欧•亨利奖。

2003年因“继承了美国文学注意情节和气氛的伟大传统，体现出人类灵魂深处种种美丽的和悲惨的道德真相”而荣获美国国家图书奖的终身成就奖。

2007年荣获爱伦•坡大师奖——终身成就奖。

Stephen King's second novel, the classic vampire bestseller "'SALEM'S LOT," tells the story of evil in small-town America. 'Salem's Lot is a small New England town with white clapboard houses, tree-lined streets, and solid church steeples. That summer in 'salem's Lot was a summer of homecoming and return; spring burned out and the land lying dry, crackling underfoot. Late that summer, Ben Mears returned to 'salem's Lot hoping to cast out his own devils and found instead a new, unspeakable horror. A stranger had also come to the Lot, a stranger with a secret as old as evil, a secret that would wreak irreparable harm on those he touched and in turn on those they loved. All would be changed forever: Susan, whose love for Ben could not protect her; Father Callahan, the bad priest who put his eroded faith to one last test; and Mark, a young boy who sees his fantasy world become reality and ironically proves the best equipped to handle the relentless nightmare of 'Salem's Lot. This is a rare novel, almost hypnotic in its unyielding suspense, which builds to a climax of classic terror. You will not forget the town of 'salem's Lot nor any of the people who used to live here.