‘Salem’s Lot is King’s second novel, published just after Carrie. The popular novel, which is considered to be among King’s best, prominently features a vast number of characters who live in the town ‘Salem’s Lot. In fact, he spends almost 3/4 the novel head jumping between various townsfolk.
Ben Mears – arguably the main single character of the novel – only takes up 20% of the novel, while his fellow Vampire hunters, Susan, Matt and Mark, collectively occupy 15%.
| Character | Words | Percent |
| Ben Mears | 30,957 | 20% |
| Susan Norton | 10,866 | 7% |
| The Lot (I) | 14,389 | 9% |
| The Lot (II) | 10,615 | 7% |
| The Lot (III) | 12,822 | 8% |
| The Lot (IV) | 38,403 | 25% |
| Matt Burke | 5,093 | 3% |
| Mark Petrie | 7,199 | 5% |
| Extra POVs | 21,697 | 14% |
| TOTAL | 152,041 |
