1. Origin and Inspiration

2. Works set in Jerusalem's Lot

3. Works referring to Jerusalem's Lot

4. Fictional history and myth

5. In Other Media

6. Other Maine creations in King's work

7. Use by third parties

8. References

King, a native of Durham, Maine, created a trinity of fictional Maine towns – Jerusalem's Lot, Castle Rock and Derry – as central settings in more than one work. ^[3][4][5]

Origin and Inspiration

In Danse Macabre, King's non-fiction, semi-autobiographical review of horror in all media forms, King confesses that 'Salem's Lot was largely derived from the town of Durham, Maine; specifically the area in which he resided as a youth known locally as "Methodist Corners." The Marsten House of Salem's Lot was based upon a vacant house of the same name in Methodist Corners; he and his friends had explored the real Marsten House as children.^[6]

Works set in Jerusalem's Lot

• novel 'Salem's Lot
• prequel short story "Jerusalem's Lot"
• sequel short story "One for the Road"

Works referring to Jerusalem's Lot

• The Shining
• The Dead Zone
• The Body
• Pet Sematary
• Dolores Claiborne
• Dreamcatcher
• Doctor Sleep
• Revival
• Blood Blockade Battlefront

the last three books of The Dark Tower series:

• Wolves of the Calla
• Song of Susannah
• The Dark Tower

Fictional history and myth

The town that would become Jerusalem's Lot was founded in 1710 by a preacher named James Boon, the leader of a cult of schismatic Puritans. The cult became notorious in the region for its open embrace of witchcraft and for its amoral sexual practices, including inbreeding.^[7] Jerusalem's Lot became an incorporated town in 1765, but was abandoned in 1789 after Boon and his followers mysteriously vanished. The mass disappearance occurred not long after Philip Boone, a wealthy individual and unknowing descendant of James Boon, obtained an occultic book known as De Vermis Mysteriis; Philip Boone disappeared along with the rest of the village.

When Jerusalem's Lot was incorporated in 1765, Maine was still part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The town got its name from a myth about one of the earliest residents, Charles Belknap Tanner, who raised pigs; one of these pigs was named Jerusalem. One day, Jerusalem escaped from her confines into a nearby forest, and became aggressive and wild. Tanner began warning young children who trespassed on his property to "Keep 'ee out o' Jerusalem's wood lot," lest the pig devour them. Eventually, the phrase "Jerusalem's Lot" was adopted as the town name.^[8]

At an unknown date sometime after Boone and McCann's exploration, people began inhabiting the town again. The town had a representative named Elias Jointner in the House of Representatives by 1896.^[8] As chronicled in the novel 'Salem's Lot, Jerusalem's Lot has been identified as a residence for great and mysterious evil, particularly vampires.

In Other Media

Jerusalem's Lot appears in episode 8 of the King-produced 2018 Hulu web television series Castle Rock. Henry Deaver's son Wendell takes a bus to Jerusalem's Lot after being sent away from Castle Rock by his father.

Other Maine creations in King's work

Besides the oft-used trinity of Jerusalem's Lot, Castle Rock, and Derry, King has created other fictional Maine towns, including Chamberlain in Carrie, Ludlow in Pet Sematary and The Dark Half (unrelated to the real Maine town of Ludlow), Haven in The Tommyknockers, Little Tall Island in Dolores Claiborne and Storm of the Century and "Morning Deliveries" which appeared in the book of short stories called "Skeleton Crew", and Chester's Mill in Under the Dome.

Use by third parties

Following the success of the 1979 television mini-series Salem's Lot, adapted from King's novel, a 1987 mini-series sequel, A Return to Salem's Lot, was produced.

King's original novel was also adapted for the 1995 BBC radio drama Salem's Lot, and the 2004 television mini-series Salem's Lot.

The town is mentioned in Alan Moore's 2002/03 comic book series The New Traveller's Almanac.

It is mentioned by rapper Eminem in his 2002 song "Lose Yourself".

The town is mentioned in the Nirvana song "Serve the Servants" on the In Utero album.

References

• Apollo command/service module
• Apollo Commonwealth Marine Reserve
• Apollo Computer Inc.
• Apollo Cosmetic Clinics
• Apollo & Daphne
• Apollo Diagnostics
• Apollo DN100
• Apollo DN300
• Apollo DN330
• Apollodoros of Acharnae
• Apollodorus Ephillus
• Apollodorus (general)
• Apollodorus (jurist)
• Apollodorus Logisticus
• Apollodorus mythographus (disambiguation)
• Apollodorus of Acharne
• Apollodorus of Alexandria
• Apollodorus of Amphipolis
• Apollodorus, of Athens
• Apollodorus of Boeotia
• Apollodorus of Cumae
• Apollodorus of Cyrene
• Apollodorus of Cyzicus
• Apollodorus of Erythrae
• Apollodorus of Gela