{"id":102044,"date":"2024-10-05T13:40:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T12:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeek.games\/?p=102044"},"modified":"2024-10-05T13:40:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T12:40:07","slug":"what-happened-to-ben-mears-after-salems-lot-in-stephen-kings-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeek.games\/2024\/10\/05\/what-happened-to-ben-mears-after-salems-lot-in-stephen-kings-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happened to Ben Mears After Salem\u2019s Lot in Stephen King’s Universe?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Max\u2019s Salem\u2019s Lot<\/em> movie concludes with Ben Mears and Mark Petrie killing the main vampire, Kurt Barlow, in hopes of ending the terror in the town. Unfortunately, Barlow\u2019s death doesn\u2019t eradicate the other vampires, as the film closes with Ben and Mark fleeing town to safety. However, Stephen King\u2019s 1975 novel ends with an epilogue that reveals what happened to Ben Mears and Mark Petrie after they escaped, potentially hinting at a Salem\u2019s Lot 2<\/em> on Max.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Stephen King\u2019s Salem\u2019s Lot<\/em> novel features both a prologue and epilogue that shed light on Ben and Mark\u2019s fate after killing Kurt Barlow\u2014details omitted from the 2024 film. The prologue takes place shortly after Ben and Mark escape the town, showing that they fled to a seaside location in Mexico to recover and plan their next move. During this time, Mark confesses their vampire encounter to a Catholic priest at a local church.<\/p>\n However, their story picks up again in the epilogue. A year after their escape, Ben and Mark return to Jerusalem\u2019s Lot to confront the remaining vampires and finally rid the town of them. Ben sets a fire in the nearby woods to draw out the vampires and destroy the town. While King\u2019s other novels suggest the town wasn\u2019t entirely destroyed, Ben and Mark were still successful in eliminating many of the vampires.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n While Ben Mears\u2019 whereabouts and actions after burning down Salem\u2019s Lot are mostly unknown, Stephen King\u2019s larger universe does provide an update on the character in another story. In Wolves of the Calla<\/em>, the fifth book in King\u2019s The Dark Tower<\/em> series, Salem\u2019s Lot<\/em> character Father Callahan reveals that he attended Ben\u2019s funeral in Los Zapatos, Mexico. The novel states that Ben Mears died in his 50s, but the exact cause of his death remains a mystery.<\/p>\n Father Callahan survived the events of Salem’s Lot<\/em> in King\u2019s novel but dies in the 2024 movie adaptation. In addition to Father Callahan, Ben\u2019s funeral in Mexico was attended by a grown-up Mark Petrie, who referred to Ben as his father during the eulogy, indicating that Ben had raised the orphan after his parents\u2019 deaths in Salem\u2019s Lot<\/em>. It\u2019s still unclear what Ben and Mark did in the decades following the fire, but they seemingly never returned to the town.<\/p>\nBen Mears Returned to Salem\u2019s Lot a Year Later to Burn the Town<\/h3>\n
Ben Mears Died in His 50s<\/h3>\n