4/5 stars - and the minus one is truly just because this book could have been ~150 pages shorter without losing anything important. 

The town of Jerusalem's Lot ('Salem's Lot to the locals) is just like any other until a few mysterious new tenants move to town. Ben, an author returning to turn his childhood nightmares into his next best seller, and the elusive Straker and Barlow, reclusive businessmen who moved into the creepiest house in town and plan to sell antiquities. The town & it's people seem to know something is amiss before they consciously realize it and once a group stumbles upon the truth, darkness is unleashed. 

Other than taking a couple hundred pages to really get to the good stuff, this was an A+ read. Classic horror written in a style that only King has really mastered. Vivid, unsettling, and downright scary at times, I highly recommend this one to fans of the genre and King himself.