
Barlow holds Mark hostage, but Father Callahan has the upper hand, securing Mark's release, agreeing to Barlow's demand that he toss aside his cross and face him on equal terms. Susan becomes a vampire, but is eventually staked through the heart by Mears, the man who loved her.įather Callahan is caught by Barlow at the Petrie house after Barlow kills Mark's parents, but does not infect them, so they are later given a clean burial. Susan is captured by Barlow before Mark has a chance to rescue her. Over the course of several weeks almost all of the townspeople are infected.īen Mears and Susan are joined by Matt Burke and his doctor, Jimmy Cody, along with young Mark Petrie and the local priest, Father Callahan, in an effort to fight the spread of the vampires, whose numbers increase as the new vampires infect their own families and others. Danny fails to infect Mark Petrie, who resists him successfully. The duo's arrival coincides with the disappearance of a young boy, Ralphie Glick, and the death of his brother Danny, who becomes the town's first vampire, infecting such locals as Mike Ryerson, Randy McDougall, Jack Griffen, and Danny's own mother, Marjorie Glick. Barlow is a recluse only his familiar, Richard Straker, is seen in public. Mears learns that the Marsten House - the former home of Depression-era hitman Hubert "Hubie" Marsten - has been purchased by Kurt Barlow, an Austrian immigrant who has arrived in the Lot to ostensibly open an antique store. Once in town he meets local high school teacher Matt Burke and strikes up a romantic relationship with Susan Norton, a young college graduate.īen starts writing a book about the Marsten House, an abandoned mansion where he had a terrifying experience as a child. Ben Mears, a successful writer who grew up in the town of Jerusalem's Lot, Maine, has returned home after twenty-five years.
