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Well done. Salem’s Lot is deliciously Gothic, as it brings you to a place and then digs around in the guts of it, examining a place’s architecture, if you will, under some duress. I remember him being so proud of it, and Mainers were proud of him for it.

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You put it so accurately. Its definitely a pinnacle of modern gothic

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I haven’t read the book but this excellently written article is beginning to convince me.

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