From our interview with Salem's Lot director Gary Dauberman. SPOILER WARNING: The following article contains light spoilers for the new Salem’s Lot adaptation, Stephen King ’s novel, and the Dark Tower series. If you haven’t watched/read one or all of them and don’t wish to know anything about them, proceed at your own risk!

Salem’s Lot is one of Stephen King’s best books, and though Tobe Hooper’s 1979 TV miniseries adaptation is an uneven creature of the night, it features one scene—of a young vampire trying to gain entry into a friend’s home via a second-floor bedroom window—that’s the stuff of nightmares.

Stephen King's novel Salem's Lot is about a classical vampire in a small American town. So why do the adaptations make the vampire Barlow into just a beast?

The Stephen King adaptations keep coming, and "Salem's Lot" is the latest offering. This is the third time King's classic vampire novel - pitched as "Dracula" meets "Peyton Place" - has been adapted to the screen.

The latest adaptation on Salem's Lot is good-looking and scary, but only takes its updated vampire tale so far.

Based on King's 1975 book of the same name — his sophomore novel after 1974's 'Carrie' — 'Salem's Lot' is streaming Thursday, Oct. 3, on Max

Adapting a famous Stephen King novel, especially one that already spawned a cult mini-series directed by none other than Tobe Hooper himself, has got to be a pretty big uphill struggle. There are few people who probably understand this better than screenwriter Gary Dauberman,