One of the inspirations for 'Salem's Lot.

Grace Metalious, Peyton Place (9.213)-A 1956 novel about secrets and lusts in a small town.

Travis McGhee (11.413)-A fictional detective in stories by John D.

Anthony Masters, Natural History of the Vampire (13.13).

James Russell Lowell (11.77)-Shmoop believes that this is who Matt is referring to as the poet 'Russell.' You can forgive him the mistake he's under a good deal of stress.

Sybil Leek, On Exorcism: Driving Out the Devils (13.78)-Father Callahan gets the title wrong in the text.

Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House (Part One epigraph 5.87).

Hyde (6.165)-The monster from the Robert Louis Stevenson novel Dr.

Hepplewhite (4.94)-Valuable furniture, made by George Hepplewhite, an English cabinetmaker in the 1700s.

James Frazier, The Golden Bough (13.13).

Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes stories (14.58) (14.401 reference to Mycroft Holmes from the stories).

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (3.285).

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'Cristabel' (7.196).Ingmar Bergman, The Seventh Seal (14.191).Edward Albee (5.128)-The line about monkey nipples is from the play 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'.

Literary, Artistic, and Philosophical References

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