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 Mistigram: this #teletext screen by Uglifruit celebrates Tobe Hooper's 1979 TV adaptation of Stephen King's 1975 vampire novel #SalemsLot. This piece was included in the spooky MIST1022 artpack collection released two years ago this month.

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Today on Mistigram! In 1975, Stephen King wrote the book Salem’s Lot. (In 1994 Helter established a 604-area BBS of the same name.) In 1979 the novel was adapted into a TV miniseries with some striking promotional artwork. In 2010 the Swedish heavy metal band Ghost released their album “Opus Eponymous”, whose album illustration echoed the influence of the Salem’s Lot art.

And in 2014, Publius Emeritus II (who had not touched textmode art in this century) adapted the Ghost album artwork into a newschool ASCII celebrating the revival of our long-dormant underground computer artgroup Mistigris, not simply retaining the subject and approach, but dismantling and reassembling the logo into a new configuration.

Not bad, huh?