Salem's Lot
The ultimate in terror!
On CBS
A gothic horror miniseries about a writer returning home to discover his hometown has been infiltrated by a vampire, blending supernatural menace with the corruption of a familiar place.
Ben Mears has returned to his hometown to write a book about the supposedly haunted Marsten House. When people around the Marsten House start dying mysteriously, Mears discovers that the owner of the mansion is actually a vampire who is turning them into an army of undead slaves.
Essence
Ensemble
David Soul
Ben Mears
James Mason
Richard K. Straker
Lance Kerwin
Mark Petrie
Bonnie Bedelia
Susan Norton
Lew Ayres
Jason Burke
Julie Cobb
Bonnie Sawyer
Elisha Cook Jr.
Gordon 'Weasel' Phillips
George Dzundza
Cully Sawyer
Ed Flanders
Dr. Bill Norton
Clarissa Kaye-Mason
Majorie Glick
Geoffrey Lewis
Mike Ryerson
Barney McFadden
Ned Tibbets
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