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Michael Rowe, Enter Night

A solid, straightforward vampire novel set in remote Ontario. An enjoyable read. But in one aspect - the authors' respective accounts of how vampires take over a small town - one sees the difference between a merely good writer, like Rowe, and a really gifted one, like King. In Salem's Lot, King brings the vampire assault to life through a series of kinetic and varied scenes that have the feeling of a swelling tidal wave that finally comes crashing down - whereas Rowe can only stage-manage a couple of rather static set-pieces that serve as a kind of semaphore for the larger attack.

With that said, the book has some very good and toothsome scenes.