'Salem's Lot

The town knew darkness...and the awful, heavy silence of terrifying images grotesquely dancing in and out of the shadows...and stark white faces, huge empty eyes and long gnarled hands that reached out with lustful insistence...and the paralyzing fear of a diabolical corruption and a hideous peril more dreadful than death.

But no one living in 'Salem's Lot dared talk about the high, sweet, evil laughter of a child...and the terrible sucking sounds...