Ben Mears has returned to his hometown to write a book about the supposedly haunted Marsten House. When people around the Marsten House start dying mysteriously, Mears discovers that the owner of the mansion is actually a vampire who is turning them into an army of undead slaves.
Ben Mears the writer arrives back in Salem's Lot to write a story about the old Marsten house where he had a bad experience in his childhood. He meets Susan and young Danny Glick has a unexpected encounter in the woods. Straker arrives in town and prepares a antique store for opening to the public while waiting for his partner Barlow to arrive from out of town.
