Matthew Burke

Matthew Burke left the high school carrying his briefcase in his left hand and crossed the empty parking lot to where his old Chevy Biscayne sat, still on last year’s snow tires. He was sixty-three, two years from mandatory retirement, and still carrying a full load of English classes and extracurricular activities.

Callahan recalls teacher Matthew Burke as Ben Mears’s ally against the Salem’s Lot vampire, matching the original novel.

“Air Dance, it was called. About a man who gets hung for the murder his brother committed?” Callahan nodded. “That’s the one. There was also a teacher named Matthew Burke, and they both believed there was a vampire at work in ‘Salem’s Lot, the kind who makes other vampires.”

Callahan recalls teacher Matthew Burke as Ben Mears’s ally against the Salem’s Lot vampire, matching the original novel.