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@TonusOH - ah, right.
I know what you're talking about.
The last chapter of my copy of Salem's Lot has this little story as its final chapter.
It's set in the 1700s, from what I remember, and is done in the form of letters between two people. I always felt this last chapter didn't fit too well with the rest of the novel, lol.
TonusOH - yes, that other short story is also at the end, called One More For The Road.
'... somewhere out there, that little girl is still looking for her goodnight kiss' - or something like that.
Yep, those are the ones. So I guess he did intend them to be canon. :)
@TonusOH
Have you read Salem's Lot?
What did you think of it?
Currently reading:
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Queued:
The Trial by Franz Kafka (many parallels with the way JW elder meetings are conducted)
Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky
Ana Karenina by Tolstoy
Currently reading;
Tom Clancy's Executive Orders. Huge novel, lol.
Metamorphosis - Kafka
Uncertain Midnight - Edmund Cooper
Colditz - PR Reid
I'm a bit bored with novels because they all seem a formulaic. IE. Character has a problem. Problem getting solved. Then it all goes wrong. Finally the character triumphs.....or in the case of horror stories, everyone dies at the end. So tedious.
I read Salem's Lot several years ago. I recall that I liked it, but I'd have to reread it to remember if there was anything that stood out, good or bad. I might have it on my Kindle, so maybe it's worth a re-read...
@TonusOH - a vampire novel (or at least a novel with a vampire in it) that I strongly recommend is Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist. I love the film, too. The novel is particularly dark but it's fantastic. Some passages are difficult to read, but at its core it is a love story between a bullied 12 year old kid and a 200 year old vampire who looks like a girl.
Try the semi-autobiographical novel by Sodof Baldric.
