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Pet Sematary is a 1983 horror novel by American writer Stephen King. The novel was nominated for a World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1984, [1] and adapted into two films: one in 1989 and another in 2019. In November 2013, PS Publishing released Pet Sematary in a limited 30th-anniversary edition. [2]
Nov 14, 1983 · A horror novel about a family who moves to a haunted house in Maine and faces a terrifying secret in the nearby woods. Read ratings, reviews, quotes, and more from the Goodreads community of readers.
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With Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, John Lithgow, Jeté Laurence. Dr. Louis Creed and his wife, Rachel, relocate from Boston to rural Maine with their two young children. The couple soon discover a mysterious burial ground hidden deep in the woods near their new home.
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Louis Creed, a doctor from Chicago, moves to Ludlow, Maine with his family: wife Rachel; their two young children, Eileen ("Ellie") and Gage; and Ellie's cat, Winston Church. Their new house is just outside Ludlow. Their neighbor, an elderly man named Jud Crandall, warns Louis and Rachel about the highway that runs past their house; it is used by s...
The story was adapted into a filmin 1989 that followed the originally story quite closely—the screenplay was written by King himself and he makes a cameo appearance in the film as a priest at a funeral service. The critically acclaimed movie adaptation did far worse that expected in the box office, some thought due to the sheer darkness of some of ...
There are three audiobook versions of Pet Sematary. One version, which is abridged, is read by a full ensemble cast. Another version, which is unabridged, is read by Merwin Smith. The third is also unabridged, and is read by Michael C. Hall, star of the television series Dexter.
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- The book was inspired by Stephen King’s own life. Stephen King’s inspiration for Pet Sematary came quite clearly and directly from events in his own life.
- King didn’t want to publish the book. For all of its fantastic elements, Pet Sematary is the story of a family who loses a child, and the madness and pain that grief puts them through as it ultimately drives Dr. Louis Creed to do the unthinkable.
- It was published out of necessity. After writing Pet Sematary, King simply filed it away in a drawer and went to work on his next book, later writing in an introduction to the novel that he didn’t expect it would ever be published “in my lifetime.”
- He wrote it at his neighbor’s house. Another plot element from Pet Sematary that King borrowed from his real life is the presence of a kind neighbor, and the neighbor actually had a hand in helping King compose the book.
Pet Sematary is a novel by Stephen King about a doctor who moves to Maine with his family and discovers a burial ground that can bring the dead back to life. The novel explores the themes of death, grief, evil, and the supernatural, and has been adapted into a movie and a TV series.
Dr. Louis Creed and his wife, Rachel, relocate from Boston to rural Maine with their two young children. The couple soon discover a mysterious burial ground hidden deep in the woods near their new...
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