A new film adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘Salem’s Lot’ swaps in an owl for the book’s haunting whip-poor-wills, showing how species loss is also tied into cultural loss.
In "Jerusalem's Lot," the short story King later published as a prelude to "Salem's Lot," whip-poor-wills haunt the Maine town. And in his 1989 novel "The Dark Half," King references the lore of ...
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Advertisement Enter the whip-poor-wills. Several of them, King writes, "had begun to lift their shrilling call," the demand for violence that gives the species its name: whip-poor-will.