Stephen King "Salem's Lot" Jerry Uelsmann, Limited Edition Fine Art Portfolio of 7 Prints

The Ultimate 'Salem's Lot Companion: Complete Centipede Press 7-Print Fine Art Portfolio by Jerry Uelsmann (Rare Overstock Run).

Centipede Press 2005. Stephen King "Salem's Lot". Limited Edition Fine-Art Print Collection. Complete set of 7 prints. Black & white duotone on heavy paper. These items are a set of collectible photographic art prints created by fine-art photographer Jerry Uelsmann for a highly celebrated deluxe edition of Stephen King's vampire novel, 'Salem's Lot. The 9" x 13" dimensions align with the exact layout of the massive, 13-pound oversized edition published by Centipede Press in 2005.

Centipede Press sold a very small overstock run (rumored to be between 35 and 50 standalone sets) of these duotone prints directly to collectors.

Jerry Uelsmann's Legacy: As a highly celebrated pioneer of surreal composite photography (and analog photo manipulation), Uelsmann's work carries inherent fine-art value completely independent of the Stephen King community.

• Limited Edition
• Complete 7 Print Set
• Black & White 
• Approx. Dimensions Each: 9" x 13 1/4"
• Very Fine without any flaws.

Origins of the Prints

Instead of typical fantasy or horror drawings, Centipede Press commissioned legendary surrealist photographer Jerry Uelsmann to provide atmospheric, black-and-white photomontages for the book.

The Imagery: His work uses haunting, dreamlike, and heavily layered black-and-white photography to capture the creeping dread of the fictional town of Jerusalem's Lot without leaning on campy monster tropes.

The Format: The book itself was bound in a 9" x 13" structure. These individual prints either originated as standalone promotional art sheets, items extracted from a rare standalone art portfolio, or pages cleanly removed from a damaged copy of the book to be framed as individual gallery pieces.

Collector's Context and Value

Finding all 7 pieces together is quite rare for Stephen King collectors:

The Book Rarity: The original signed book edition was strictly limited to only 315 copies globally, with an unsigned hardcover run of 600. Because both versions sold out immediately and command high prices on the secondary market, intact companion art from the release is highly sought after by horror enthusiasts.

Display Appeal: Because they are uniform in size (approx. 9" x 13") and printed on premium, heavy archival paper stock, collectors frequently frame the full set together to create an interconnected wall display honoring the book.

'Salem's Lot

Stephen King's second book, 'Salem's Lot (1975)--about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels: a small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational, goodhearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil.

Simply taken as a contemporary vampire novel, 'Salem's Lot is great fun to read, and has been very influential in the horror genre. But it's also a sly piece of social commentary. As King said in 1983, "In 'Salem's Lot, the thing that really scared me was not vampires, but the town in the daytime, the town that was empty, knowing that there were things in closets, that there were people tucked under beds, under the concrete pilings of all those trailers. And all the time I was writing that, the Watergate hearings were pouring out of the TV.... Howard Baker kept asking, 'What I want to know is, what did you know and when did you know it?' That line haunts me, it stays in my mind.... During that time I was thinking about secrets, things that have been hidden and were being dragged out into the light."

The title King originally chose was Second Coming, but he later decided on Jerusalem's Lot. The publishers, Doubleday, shortened it to the current title, thinking the author's choice sounded too religious. Legacy

'Salem's Lot was the first of King's books to have a huge cast of characters, a trait that would appear again in later books such as The Stand. The town of Jerusalem's Lot would also serve as a prototype for later fictional towns of King's writing, namely Castle Rock, Maine and Derry, Maine.

King reused the character Father Callahan, the local priest whose faith falters in the dreadful presence of Barlow, in his The Dark Tower series. He appears in Wolves of the Calla, Song of Susannah, and The Dark Tower, and provides insights into his experiences after being exiled from 'Salem's Lot.

Salem's Lot was also the first novel by King in which the main character is a writer, a device he would use again in a number of novels and short stories. Mark Petrie's chant used for repelling the vampiric Danny Glick is reused in another King novel, It.

At one point, Mears explains his experience in the Marsten house, including seeing the body of the dead previous occupant. This is, obviously, impossible. However, Mears describes it as being a leftover or a remnant of what had happened there, just like the haunting of the Overlook Hotel in King's The Shining. Salem's Lot Prints from Centipede Press edition - These are a companion piece to the Gift Edition which did not have the interior artwork that was in the Deluxe and "Lettered" editions. Gift Edition limitation was 600 copies. I estimate that less than 100 sets of these prints were made. I have a handful of complete sets available that came directly from Centipede. There are 7 illustrations in the set, all measuring 9x13. You are unlikely to find these anywhere else than here.

Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author. Dubbed the "King of Horror", he is widely known for his horror fiction and has also explored other genres, among them suspense, crime, science-fiction, fantasy, and mystery. In a career spanning six decades, he has written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in collections.

His debut, Carrie (1974), established him in horror, and Different Seasons (1982), a collection of four novellas, was his first major departure from the genre. Among the films adapted from King's fiction are Carrie (1976), The Shining (1980), The Dead Zone (1983), Stand by Me (1986), Misery (1990), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Dolores Claiborne (1995), The Green Mile (1999), It (2017), The Life of Chuck (2024) and The Long Walk (2025). He has published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman and has co-written works with other authors, notably his friend Peter Straub and sons Joe Hill and Owen King. He has also written nonfiction, notably Danse Macabre (1981) and On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (2000).

Among other awards, King has won the O. Henry Award for "The Man in the Black Suit" (1994) and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller for 11/22/63 (2011). He has also won honors for his overall contributions to literature, including the 2003 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2007 Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and the 2014 National Medal of Arts.[8] Joyce Carol Oates called King "a brilliantly rooted, psychologically 'realistic' writer for whom the American scene has been a continuous source of inspiration, and American popular culture a vast cornucopia of possibilities."