[2] "Jerusalem's Lot" is an epistolary short story set in the fictional town of Preacher's Corners, Cumberland County, Maine, in 1850.

Calvin finds a hidden compartment in the library containing an old map of a deserted village called Jerusalem's Lot, a mysterious area the townsfolk avoid.

At the pulpit, they find a book filled with Latin and Druidic runes entitled De Vermis Mysteriis, or "The Mysteries of the Worm".

She reveals a rift in Charles' family caused by his grandfather, Robert Boone, trying to steal De Vermis Mysteriis from his brother, Philip (presumably to destroy it).

The diary, written by Robert Boone, details the history of Jerusalem's Lot and the events leading to the mass disappearance.

The village was founded by one of Charles' distant ancestors, James Boon, who was the leader of an inbred witchcraft cult.

Charles moves the lamb and takes the book to destroy it, but a congregation of undead appears, including Philip and Boon.

In his final letter to "Bones", Charles announces his intention to commit suicide, ending the Boone family line.

An "editor's note" attributes Charles's letters and the death of Calvin to insanity rather than supernatural occurrences in Jerusalem's Lot.

Artist Glenn Chadbourne adapted "Jerusalem's Lot" for The Secretary of Dreams, a collection of comics based on King's short fiction released by Cemetery Dance in December 2006.

In December 2019, Epix announced it had commissioned a straight-to-series order of 10 episodes for a television adaptation starring Adrien Brody as Captain Charles Boone.