| "One for the Road" | |||
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| Short story by Stephen King | |||
| Country | United States | ||
| Language | English | ||
| Genre(s) | Horror short story | ||
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| Published in | Night Shift | ||
| Publisher | Doubleday | ||
| Media type | Print (Paperback) | ||
| Publication date | 1978 | ||
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"One for the Road" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the March/April 1977 issue of Maine, and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift .
Two years after the events of 'Salem's Lot , vampires still prowl the burned-out remains of Jerusalem's Lot, Maine, and its environs. Residents of nearby towns, including the narrator Booth, live in unspoken fear, wearing religious symbols for protection and never venturing near the area.
One night, Booth and his friend, bar owner Herb "Tookey" Tooklander, attempt to rescue the wife and daughter of a motorist named Gerard Lumley, whose vehicle is stranded in a ferocious blizzard. Initially contemptuous of Lumley for driving in such weather, both are horrified upon realizing that his vehicle is stranded in Jerusalem's Lot. They reluctantly drive out in an International Scout with Lumley to try to save his family, fearing the worst.
The three locate Lumley's Mercedes, still running and heated but nonetheless abandoned. Realizing what has likely happened to Lumley's family, Tookey and Booth try to get him to leave with them to find the sheriff, but Lumley refuses and stumbles around in the snow, calling for his wife and daughter. Lumley's wife emerges from the dark and he hurries toward her; he notices her fanged teeth and red eyes too late and is bitten. Booth nearly falls victim to Lumley's daughter, but Tookey throws a Douay Bible at her as both men scramble into the Scout, quickly fleeing the area.
Booth concludes the story by saying Tookey died of a heart attack a couple of years after the incident. He mentions that he still has nightmares about that night and about Lumley's daughter, and warns the reader that if they are in the area, to never go up the road into Jerusalem's Lot for any reason, especially at night, lest the reader encounter Lumley's daughter, "still waiting for her goodnight kiss".
This story acts as a sequel to King's 1975 novel 'Salem's Lot , and is also connected to the story of "Jerusalem's Lot", which is a prequel to both, while also appearing in Night Shift . [1] Both stories were later collected in the 2005 'Salem's Lot Illustrated Edition.
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Kurt Barlow is a fictional vampire and the main antagonist of Stephen King's 1975 horror novel 'Salem's Lot. The character is a powerful vampire who moves to the Maine town of Jerusalem's Lot with the intent to form a vampire colony of its residents. Due to his own predations as well as those of the residents he turns, the entire town is ultimately overrun by vampirism; only a few of the residents escape. Although his true age is unknown, he claims to be so old that he predates the founding of Christianity by centuries.
Graveyard Shift is a 1990 American horror film directed by Ralph S. Singleton, written by John Esposito, starring David Andrews, Stephen Macht, Kelly Wolf, and Brad Dourif, and based on the 1970 short story of the same name by Stephen King which was first published in the October 1970 issue of Cavalier magazine, and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift. The film was released in October 1990.
Jerusalem's Lot, Maine is a fictional town and a part of writer Stephen King's fictional Maine topography. 'Salem's Lot has served as the setting for a number of his novels, novellas, and short stories. It first appeared in King's 1975 novel 'Salem's Lot, and has reappeared as late as his 2019 novel The Institute. The town is described as being located in Cumberland County, between the towns of Falmouth, Windham, and Cumberland, near the southern part of the state about 10 miles north of Portland. A map on King's official website, though, places 'Salem's Lot considerably further north, approximately in Northwest Piscataquis.
