"A fresh Stephen King adaptation should be exciting," said Christina Newland in The i Paper. "It's a shame, then, that Salem's Lot" – a small-town chiller set in 1970s Maine – has "zero new ideas or even a particularly frightening take" on the author's 1975 novel.

A critical success, eight years later, B-movie director Larry Cohen directed a (limited) theatrical sequel titled A Return to Salem's Lot from an original script. In other words, this sequel to Salem's Lot wasn't based on the already published sequel Stephen King had written in 1977,

Stephen King's 2022 novel Fairy Tale has been hailed as one of his best books in years, and now it's set to be adapted into a 10-part TV series by a major director.