Do you feel it, dear reader? The crisp little nip in the air? That delicious coolness first thing in the morning?
Yes, autumn is close—and the spooky season is near! That refreshing sense of autumnality (my favorite made-up word) conjures up all manner of pumpkin-spiced fantasies for the season ahead.
It also means Halloween is coming!
Naturally, yours portly loves Halloween—I probably won’t shut up about it from now until probably well into November—and Halloween means scary movies, which are even better when it’s dark and chilly.
What’s even better are scary movies that I saw when I was entirely too young, and which have seared themselves into my mind over the intervening decades.
The 1979 miniseries Salem’s Lot, an adaptation of the Stephen King novel “‘Salem’s Lot,” is one such film. It’s streaming now on Shudder, and I’ve been soaking in its vampiric scares off and on for the past week.