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Whoever feeds you... is your god.
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~ Kurt Barlow to Father Callahan.
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I am not a serpent, but the Father of Serpents
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~ Kurt Barlow, on his notes.
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Look and see me, puny man. Look upon Barlow, who has passed the centuries as you have passed hours before a fireplace with a book. Look and see the great creature of the night whom you would slay with your miserable little stick. Look upon me, scribbler. I have written in human lives, and blood has been my ink. Look upon me and despair!
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~ Kurt Barlow taunting Ben Mears as he's about to stake him.
Kurt Barlow is the main antagonist of Stephen King's 1975 novel 'Salem's Lot. He is an ancient and highly intelligent vampire who seeks to turn the town of Jerusalem's Lot into his own personal vampire colony.
In the 1995 BBC radio adaptation, he was voiced by Doug Bradley, who also played Pinhead in the Hellraiser film series, Vitiate from Star Wars: The Old Republic, and Joe Chill in Gotham Knights.
Kurt Barlow initially appears as an old man with white hair, a white mustache and a thin, slender build with sunken cheekbones, wearing a black business suit with a blood red tie. Later in the novel, Barlow looks like what he does before, but he is middle-aged with black hair and a black mustache. His vampire form looks the same, except he has chalk white pale skin, red eyes, and black claws. At the end of the novel, Barlow looks like a healthy young man with lurid red cheeks.
Powers and Abilities[]
As explained in the Dark Tower series, Barlow is a "Type One" vampire, which is the rarest and most powerful type of vampire. Type Ones like Barlow have the ability to create "Type Two" vampires. He hypnotizes people with his eyes, and has great superhuman strength. He also has the power to damn someone, making them "unclean, by forcing them to feed on his blood. He has the ability to infect someone into a slave Vampire.
Biography[]
Like all other Type One Vampires, Barlow was a lesser evil spirit created from the Prim, at some point, he, along with all the other races of his, manifested on Earth as evil, supernatural bloodsucking creatures known as Vampires. Unlike the rest of his kind, Barlow had the appearance, or possibly disguise, of a human taking up many names throughout the centuries. Before the events of the novel, Barlow's current alias before Barlow was KurtBreichen and that he was an Austrian nobleman. As Breichen, Barlow corresponded for 20 years with Hubert "Hubie" Marsten, a Depression-era hitman living in Jerusalem's Lot, Maine.
Marsten murdered his wife and committed suicide, but not before burning his letters with Barlow. The novel strongly implies that Marsten entered into an agreement with Barlow that allowed him to eventually come to Jerusalem's Lot.
In 1975, Barlow arrives the town of Jerusalem's Lot in a box shipped overseas by his human assistant, Richard Straker. The two take residence in Marten's abandoned mansion. Barlow and Straker pose as antiques dealers and open a shop in the town; Straker tends to the shop and handles business arrangements while Barlow is seldom seen in public. Straker kidnaps a local boy, Ralphie Glick, and makes a human sacrifice of the child in an appeasement ritual. Ralphie's brother, Danny, becomes a vampire and begins to infect other locals-taking Dud Rogers and Corey Byrant as his first victims.
When the novel's protagonist, Mark Petrie, and Susan Norton sneak into the Marsten House to kill Barlow, Straker catches them and Barlow turns Susan. Mark manages to escape, but mortally wounds Straker as he does so. Straker is later killed by Barlow, who cannot resist drinking his blood from his wounds. Susan's lover, Ben Mears, is later forced to kill her as a result of Barlow turning her.
Father Callahan and Mark head over to Mark's parents' house to save them, but Barlow beats them to death and takes Mark hostage. Callahan pulls out his cross on Barlow, however Barlow challenges the man's faith and takes the cross off Callahan and destroys it before forcing Callahan to drink his blood. Callahan leaves 'Salem's Lot in shame.
Mark escapes and Barlow tries to hypnotize him into killing Ben before the latter can stake him by threatening to castrate him. However they end up succeeding in killing him. Ben Mears stakes Barlow in the heart, causing him to cry out in pain and anguish before dissolving slowly. By morning, Barlow was dead and nothing more than dust and ash, with his fangs being left behind, which briefly attacked the protagonists, before thrown into the wall and shattering.
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