Errors in 'Salem's Lot
- In Chapter 14 (The Lot IV), Subchapter 1, it is said that the vernal equinox is on 23rd of September (13 days before 5th of October). This is incorrect. The Autumnal Equinox, when the sun moves from north to south over the equator occurs near September 23rd, but the Vernal Equinox is where the sun moves from south to north over the equator, and it occurs about 21st of March each year.
- Mark Petrie is, in the beginning of the book (Part I, Chapter 3, subchapter 9), described as being a tall kid. But later (Part I, Chapter 6, subchapter 5), when Mark is sitting at home of the funeral of Danny Glick, he is described as being a little smaller than the average boy at his age. (This error was discovered by Stephanie Robinson)
- In chapter 11, subchapter 8, it says that the midbrain and the cerebrum are two separate things. That is not true. The midbrain is a part of the cerebrum. Stephen King could instead have written that there was a division between the midbrain and the rest of the cerebrum, and then he would have been right.
- In Salem's Lot, in The Lot (IV), part 44, when Ben and Mark stop at Sonny's Exxon Sonny says to Mark, "Hi kid. No school today?" - a question that seems very out of place considering that when Ben returns to the car, it is 5:15. No public school system I know of holds classes that late! (This was found by Brion Woods, Thank You)
- During the first Vampire sightings, a big deal is made regarding the fact that you have to invite a vampire into your home before they can enter, and removing that invitation causes them to leave. Yet Barlow enters the Petrie house without an invitation and kills Mark Petrie's parents and confronts Father Callaghan. Because he is the master vampire, the rules might be different for him, but others such as a stake through the heart, sunlight etc are not, so why this one? (This error found by Danielle)
- When Ben and Susan are getting acquainted at Spencer's Sundries, he asks her what had happened to the old Nordica movie theatre. She replies that it has now been transformed into the office of Larry Crocket, the towns Real Estate Agent. We know that Ben had already been to ask about the Marsten house, so he must have already visited Crocket, so why didn't he know the fate of the Nordica already, since he had already been there? (This error found by Dan)
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