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Pet Sematary
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Pet Sematary (1983) (edit title/settings)

by Stephen King (Author) (edit contributors)

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The house looked right, felt right, to Dr Louis Creed.

Rambling, old, unsmart and comfortable. A place where the family could settle; the children grow and play and explore. The rolling hills and meadows of Maine seemed a world away from the fume-choked dangers of Chicago.

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Louis Creed and his family move to a new town and meet their new neighbors Jud Crandall and his wife that live across the highway. Eileen Louis's daughters cat Church gets hit by a Semi wondering around the road, and Jud and Louis burry it in this old pet cemetary, and days later the cat comes... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Louis Creed and his family move to a new town and meet their new neighbors Jud Crandall and his wife that live across the highway. Eileen Louis's daughters cat Church gets hit by a Semi wondering around the road, and Jud and Louis burry it in this old pet cemetary, and days later the cat comes back to life, evil. Then their son Gage gets hit by a Semi and they do the same thing, they burry him in the pet cemetary, and he comes back and is very very evil.

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  • “A man's heart is stonier, Louis. A man grows what he can, and he tends to it.”
    Victor Pascow
  • “Sometimes, dead is better.”
    Judd Crandall
  • “"It's probably wrong to believe there can be any limit to the horror which the human mind can experience. On the contrary, it seems that some exponential effect begins to obtain as deeper and deeper darkness falls - as little as one may like to admit it, human experience tends, in a good many ways, to support the idea that when the nightmare grows black enough, horror spawns horror; one coincidental evil begets other, often more deliberate evils, until finally blackness seems to cover everything. And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror he human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity. That such events have their own Rube Goldberg absurdity goes almost without saying. At some point, it all starts to become rather funny. That may be the point at which sanity begins either to save itself or to buckle and break down; that point at which one's sense of humor begins to reassert itself."”
    Stephen King

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First Sentence edit see section history

Louis Creed, who had lost his father at three and who had never known a grandfather, never expected to find a father as he entered his middle age, but that was exactly what happened... although he called this man a friend, as a grown man must do when he finds the man who should have been his father relatively late in life.

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Introduction

Part One The Pet Sematary

Part Two The Micmac Burying Ground

Part Three Oz the Gweat and Tewwible

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Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 173 of 199 in Newman and Jones 200 Best Horror Novels. (community list)
This is book 3 of 10 in Publishers Weekly Bestselling Novels In 1983. (authoritative list)
This is book 44 of 99 in NPR's Top 100 Killer Thriller. (community list)
This book is in Ghosts. (community list)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Stephen King (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Ola Otnes (Narrator)
  2. Torfinn Haukås (Translator)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Doubleday
Country: USA
Publication Date: November 14, 1983
ISBN: 978-0385182447
Page Count: 416

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Classification edit see section history

  • Library of Congress: PS3561.I483 P4 1983
  • Dewey: 813.54

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Young Adults

Violence and horror

Movie Connections edit see section history

  • Pet Sematary (IMDb): (1989) Starring Dale Midkiff, Fred Gwynne and Denise Crosby; Directed by Mary Lambert
  • Pet Sematary II (IMDb): (1992) Starring Edward Furlong, Anthony Edwards and Clancy Brown; Directed by Mary Lambert

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