# 'salem's Lot Question **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 24, 2002, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salems-lot-question/105278 "2002-04-24T03:30:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2015, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salems-lot-question/105278/41 "2015-11-14T18:59:16Z")
There’s no Stovington, Vermont, either and no CDC there (from “The Stand”). I’m pretty sure the short story Jerusalem’s Lot is the same locale as “present day” 'salem’s Lot (BTW, try pronouncing that correctly, it shouldn’t be SAY-lums, right?), wasn’t Maine actually part of Massachusetts until 1840-something? As much as I love his work, Steve-O lost me when he tried to tie all his novels and short stories together into one big mythos. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2015, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salems-lot-question/105278/42 "2015-11-14T22:33:59Z")
I kind of like that, myself. Isaac Asimov and Dan Chaon have done the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2015, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salems-lot-question/105278/43 "2015-11-15T00:02:45Z")
> [@Banquet\_Bear](#): > > … its a three year old link, of course it doesn’t work! 😛 It actually does work, sort of, but Adblock + blocks it because it just goes to one of those placeholder pages. Disable adblock if you want to see it, but it’s not worth the bother really. ---
**Author:** ![Fleetwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fleetwood/32/271_2.png) [@Fleetwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fleetwood)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2015, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salems-lot-question/105278/44 "2015-11-15T02:08:54Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > I’m pretty sure the short story Jerusalem’s Lot is the same locale as “present day” 'salem’s Lot (BTW, try pronouncing that correctly, it shouldn’t be SAY-lums, right?), **wasn’t Maine actually part of Massachusetts until 1840-something?** 1. It was admitted to the Union as part of the Missouri Compromise. One pro-slave state and one anti-slave state to preserve the ratio in congress. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2015, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salems-lot-question/105278/45 "2015-11-15T02:59:06Z")
^ Thanks, **Fleetwood**. I thought the story was set much earlier and the Missouri Compromise was much later and I could have looked them up if I was less lazy and lunch (pizza) hadn’t been pending. ---
**Author:** ![Fir\_na\_tine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fir\_na\_tine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fir_na_tine)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2015, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salems-lot-question/105278/46 "2015-11-15T21:26:37Z")
> [@Saint\_Sparky](#): > > JAnyway I remember reading that 150 years ago Vermont had three times the population that it has today, it just had such a phenominal emigration level happening in the 19th century that entire towns just disapeared, where abandoned and the forest just swallowed them up. The Civil War accounted for a lot of these migrations and abandonment’s. New England farmers went off to war and found that not all the fields in the USA produced rocks and boulders as their predominant crop. When the war ended all of the New England states lost a good part of their subsistence farmers to the midwest. So Saint Sparky, after 10 years, here’s some of the straight dope! ---
**Author:** ![GrimwoodCT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d07c76/32.png) [@GrimwoodCT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrimwoodCT)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salems-lot-question/105278/47 "2017-01-16T10:00:34Z")
And here we are in 2017…the thread lives. I am here on my 15th or 20th rereading of 'Salems Lot and the first citation that came up on Google was the straight dope forums. Will this thread ever die? ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salems-lot-question/105278/48 "2017-01-16T12:30:34Z")
Maybe this thread would die if you DON’T invite it into your house. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salems-lot-question/105278/49 "2017-01-16T13:26:35Z")
[Moderating] > [@](#): > > Will this thread ever die? Yes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salems-lot-question/105278.md?page=2)