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Benjamin "Ben" Mears is an author and one-time resident of Jerusalem's Lot, Maine. Seeking a break from his career after the death of his wife and a current case of writer's block, he returns to the Lot. He decides to write about the town's haunted house, at the same time developing a passionate romance with college graduate and town resident Susan Norton.
He soon finds himself caught up in the current invasion of the mysterious and powerful vampire Kurt Barlow, who seeks to turn the Lot's residents into more of his kind. When Susan is turned into a vampire, Ben is forced to stake her. Although the rest of Ben's subsequent 'resistance movement' is killed in the fight against Barlow, Ben and the other survivor, ten-year-old Mark Petrie, manage to escape after staking Barlow. After writing about their story, Ben and Mark return to the Lot to burn it down, hoping that the fire will drive out the vampires and leave them with no place to hide.
In Wolves of the Calla, Callahan reveals he was sent todash to Los Zapatos and saw Ben's funeral, dying in his fifties while Mark is a young adult man, hinting that they destroyed Salem's Lot like they intended, or at least killed many vampires.
Portrayals
Mears was portrayed in the 1979 miniseries by David Soul.
Mears was later portrayed in the 2004 miniseries by Rob Lowe.
Appearances
- 'Salem's Lot
- 'Salem's Lot (1979 miniseries)
- 'Salem's Lot (2004 miniseries)