a writer returns to the where he spent the first few years of his life, to write a book. Little does he or the townfolk realize that a couple of other new residents are coming...Straker, a antiques dealer, and his partner and master Barlow, a ancient and malevolent vampire bent on making Salem's Lot his new home.
A journalist Ben Mears, returns to his hometown small Maine town of Jerusalem's Lot (also known as Salem's Lot), to research the mysterious memories that have haunted him since childhood. But soon the closely held secrets of small town life turn into unimaginable terror when a fearsome stranger arrives - lloking to sink his teeth into a new home.