Pet Sematary: A Novel by Stephen King (Epub)

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Now a major motion picture! Stephen King’s #1 New York Times bestseller is a “wild, powerful, disturbing” (The Washington Post Book World) classic about evil that exists far beyond the grave—among King’s most iconic and frightening novels.

When Dr. Louis Creed takes a new job and moves his family to the idyllic rural town of Ludlow, Maine, this new beginning seems too good to be true. Despite Ludlow’s tranquility, an undercurrent of danger exists here. Those trucks on the road outside the Creed’s beautiful old home travel by just a little too quickly, for one thing…as is evidenced by the makeshift graveyard in the nearby woods where generations of children have buried their beloved pets. Then there are the warnings to Louis both real and from the depths of his nightmares that he should not venture beyond the borders of this little graveyard where another burial ground lures with seductive promises and ungodly temptations. A blood-chilling truth is hidden there—one more terrifying than death itself, and hideously more powerful. As Louis is about to discover for himself sometimes, dead is better…

User’s Reviews

Review Publishers Weekly The most frightening novel Stephen King has ever written. Washington Post Book World Wild, powerful, disturbing. Detroit News A stunner….King gets you to believe the unbelievable. Pittsburgh Press Unrelenting, convincing…awesome power…his best yet! About the Author Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, and Doctor Sleep are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

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⭐ I finished this book about a half hour until midnight tonight. I had always loved the movie growing up so my brain conjured up the idea of reading the book. Seemed innocent enough and my sweet little naive mind thought, “how bad can it possibly be?” I read some of the other reviews just to see what I was getting myself into. After some peer research, I felt adequately prepared for the task at hand. As I sit here with all the lights on in my house, Boy Was I Wrong! I have been a little more jumpy and experiencing some pretty bizarre dreams since I began reading but nothing prepared me for the sheer terror I was in store for as I read the last 100 pages or so. By the time I reached the final pages, my hands and feet were ice cold and clammy. I am almost 30 years old and I was terrified to leave my bed to go to the bathroom. I worked up the courage (or my bladder couldn’t take it any more) and embarked on the trek to the bathroom. As I passed my children’s bedroom, my two year old started screaming and crying in her sleep. I am about 99.9% sure that I lost a little piece of my soul (and possibly gained a touch of PTSD) from fright! Overall, this book is great and by far the scariest thing I have ever read. If you have never read it, I highly recommend it!

⭐ I don’t typically write reviews about books. I’ve read close to 20 SK books in the last year and a half and over more in my life…this is so unlike his normal character as a writer that it’s unnerving. I’ve read IT, the Stand, ‘Salem’s Lot, Carrie, Dark Tower series 1-7.5(?) – everything chronologically before this book and tons of newer stuff (I’m working back through his catalogue from start to finish). Nothing compares to this. Prepare for the darkest form of horror. I can’t with good conscience recommend anyone to read this book. It gave me nightmares every night that I read it. I woke up thinking about it, and couldn’t get it out of my head. I’m reading something else as fast as I can…can’t wait to get back to the basic SK. Nothing else holds a candle to this.

⭐ I have to hand it to King- there’s a reason this guy sells billions of books. He can really tell a story, flesh it out and pace it very well. He’s also great at creating a believable, ordinary setting and then infusing the supernatural in a fairly believable way. Like others, I found the beginning of the book a bit too slow of a buildup; it could’ve been tightened up quite a bit. However this is probably the fastest I’ve ever read a long book. So the flow is generally very effective.I don’t want to spoil too much, but it’s hard to describe without doing that. Sometimes his zombie thing works and sometimes it doesn’t. It’s most effective when describing his cat. I would say the highlight was the old man Jud’s tale of Timmy Baterman; that was truly effective and eerie. By the final climax, it’s predictable and off-and-on effective. He’s most effective when he’s using small details to set an ominous tone. The climax is over the top; it might have been more effective if the son had just been an eerie zombie and not a murderous one. Like others said, it almost becomes a “Chucky bloodbath”.His use of pop culture references is effective, if over used. He’s used that device before and generally it somehow grounds the atmosphere of supernatural into an everyday setting which is what King excels at. Also, he refers to death as “Oz, the Great and Terrible”, based on a child’s view of Death as a force. It’s overused, but very effective; it fits in with his meditation on death as an ever-present unavoidable danger that we all fight but ultimately surrender to. This is a tale of not accepting death; someone said he could’ve put more profound thoughts into this but I think he does a pretty good job for a popular novel. I don’t expect serious existentiality in a horror tale; he makes his points in a believable way through the eyes of his characters. One of his strong points is in illustrating a character’s inner thoughts to really show the true horror. He’s much better at this than a typical bloodbath ending.Speaking of characters, his two most effective are Jud the old man (even if it seems cliche of Wise Country Old Timer, it works) and the undead cat. They set the tone of dread and demonstrate compelling force that lurks in the Indian burial ground. I also liked his invocation of the classic monster, the Wendigo, even if its purpose was a little vague. He could’ve elaborated more on why it was there. There are some vague allusions to cannibalism that don’t quite fit, even though he talks about cannibalizing one’s grief and sanity. I guess it works but…Like others, I thought the scene of the funeral fight was over the top and unnecesary and lent an unintended slapstick to an otherwise serious story in which death was an everpresent malevolent force.King and some of his readers have said this was his scariest book; i haven’t read much King so I can’t say, but The Stand was much better at creating a very creepy tone of dread. Also, apparently he did this fairly early in his career-he shelved it for a long while- so it does showcase his talent pretty well. His pacing is impeccable and his skills for creating tension are tight. The grave digging and night scenes are pretty brilliant, as his wife and Jud’s futile efforts to stop a morbid escapade.I also enjoyed the historical devices of Jud’s tales of setting the history of the burial ground; it’s such a cliche to say “Indian burial ground’ in horror. So it helps to create a believable back story there. He actually gets away with using a well-worn device.Overall, it has very strong points and a somewhat predictable and disappointing end. As I said before, I would’ve preferred less of a blood bath and more of an eerie zombie ending. His creation of eerie zombies (as opposed to the brain-eating, Night of the LIving Dead kind) was very effective and chilling. It felt much more real than the movie stereotype.

⭐ This was the first full length book I read as a young teenager and I loved the premise of the story and how it dealt with sensitive subject of death, loss, resurrection and playing God. It has such an original idea (of how to deal with a loss of a beloved pet or a child with an Indian burial ground) that I’m surprised more people haven’t tried to rip it off.My review is after seeing the 2019 version of Pet Semetary (which imo incorporates more of the book than the 1989 version) and obviously the 1989 one.My obsession with horror is thanks to Pet Semetary and the master of scary Stephen King. The power of the writing is strong and King obviously knows how to dance with characters who you will love and as the story deepens begin to fear. Take an average every day family with their beloved cat, move them to the country, bring in the friendly neighbor and a crazy road that leads to the kind of power that King makes you believe is possible and very real. The goosebumps, fear and characters are going to make you afraid to walk unknown paths.My favorite part was actually the walk to the burial ground, I felt the water, seen the fog and felt like I was right there with Louis and Jud. It was so well written, I wanted to tell them “let’s go back” because I felt the power that place held and not going to lie for a young teenager that’s scary.Even though I’m not into horror books anymore Pet Sematary holds its place in my heart.

⭐ Pet Sematary has always been one of my favorite Stephen King stories. I’m still terrified just thinking about certain scenes from the movie. I hadn’t read the book since I was a kid so I figured I was long overdue for a re-read.This is, famously, the book that King himself considers the most frightening he has ever written. He has expressed regret over publishing it, claiming that it’s too dark, too bleak, that it goes too far.I understand why he feels that way. Reading Pet Sematary as an adult has been a horrifying experience. I’m now at a point in my life where I have an acute fear of mortality—both my own and that of those I love. Pet Sematary exploits that very fear.We all know what it’s like to lose a loved one. What if there was a way to bring them back? Would you do it, even if it meant opening a door into the depths of darkness and terror? We all want to feel like we have some semblance of control, like we’re not at the whim of an indifferent universe where death can strike at any time. But at what cost?As Pet Sematary’s Louis Creed grapples with these very questions, we feel an overwhelming sense of dread. We know tragedy and horror await he and his family, and all we can do is sit back and watch it unfold, secretly hoping that if given the chance, we wouldn’t make the same mistakes. After all, as Louis’s neighbor Jud warns, “sometimes dead is better.”Pet Sematary had me in its grip from the first few pages and never let up. It’s a masterful story about death, love, grief and the hopelessness of trying to escape the will of the universe.

⭐ Okay, so the book itself was in good quality.. Had quite a few different typos. Also, being as it is a constant word in the book, I’m pretty sure that King himself actually spelled it, “Micmac” but it was the Mi’kmaq Indians he was referring to. Other than the other typos, it was in good condition.Now, on to how I feel about the story itself.. It was written well, one of the few of King’s books I’ve read that didn’t start off a little dull. Ended rather abruptly, but I was honestly ready for it to end and glad when it did. I don’t know about you, but this book really got to me. I know how the story goes, I’ve seen the movie. Knew there would be a sad part and what it entailed. Never in my wildest dreams did I expect it to hit me the way it did. This man seriously writes as if it were him this happened to. (It almost did, but not quite. Thank God!) The pain, the grief, the wretched description of the death of this boy.. Now, it may be that I’m a little sensitive, it may be that I have a two year old son, it may be all the above, but this story got to me and it got to me hard. Once again, I knew it was coming, dreaded it coming, but hoped the it would be quick and onto the horror of it all. That is not at all what happened. I’m guessing the pain of was intended to be the horror because it was horrific. The deep seeded pain of the story just went on and on after the boy was killed until about 20 pages until the book finished. I can’t even begin to describe how heartbreaking it is or how bad I wished it were over and it just kept digging (no pun intended) the pain into my heart more and more. Like I said, it could just be me. I love horror and I love what I’ve read of Stephen King’s, but I guess painful horror must not be my thing. It’s graphic, it’s explicit. It’s very well written if you can handle such affliction. I honestly felt like it was happening to me. I see why King said he put the book in a drawer and didn’t want to publish it until he had to..So, if you can handle it, go on and read it! More power to you! It’s a great story, just never again for me! I’m not sure I even want to see it on my shelf to be reminded! Lol

⭐ This book was truly terrifying to me, as I was able to relate to the family. I have a young daughter and a two year old boy. We also live out in the country where sometimes big trucks speed on our road. So I could picture myself and family in this scenario which made it hit close to home. With that being said I absolutely loved this book. What a crazy tale. Also the forward by Mr. King talking about how this book came to be was absolutely wonderful. If you enjoy horror books this is one to put on your list to read.

⭐ The horrifying way King pulls you into this nightmare of a story is disturbing yet impressive. Pet Sematary is the story of a father and husband, Louis Creed, moving to Ludlow, Maine, with his family, where he has a new job as a doctor at a University. His neighbor, Jud, becomes close to Louis, like a father figure. What Louis doesn’t know is all of the secrets that come with the Pet Sematary behind his house. Jud and the town of Ludlow are hiding a lot of secrets because it’s an Indian Burial Ground. The family cat, Church, is like any other grouchy and regular house cat until he runs a little too far from the house. That’s where the story takes a massive turn. After reading this, you really won’t want your animals (or kids) straying too far from your house, because according to Jud, “Sometimes dead is better”. I would really recommend this book to adults or older teens. There are some parts that deal with adult situations. I would not recommend younger kids or tweens to read this.

⭐ I’ve been reading Stephen King books for a long time, I’ve read maybe 30 of them. Somehow, though, I never got to Pet Sematary until now. Never saw any movie. Didn’t know the story. It was a chance to read some of his really older stuff. The real magic of Stephen King came out in this book, and that is his ability to describe settings, to pull you in. The supernatural stuff takes a backseat to all the character development and setting description, which, to me, is just fine. The “horror” parts of it are also nice and creepy.

⭐ Pet Sematary … Where to begin.I’ve read quite a few Stephen King books. It, ‘Salems Lot, Dead Zone, The Shining, and Needful Things (also halfway through Doctor Sleep), and I’m seriously thinking that Pet Sematary may be my favorite so far.Sometimes King’s books can start off slow, and to be honest be a bit of a chore until the action kicks up. That was not the case with Pet Sematary. Even through the character building I found myself consistently intrigued.Once things really got moving, which didn’t take long, I became completely enthralled. I don’t want to start summarizing or getting into details. There are plenty of reviews that have done just that. I implore you to to give It a chance and see for yourself. Don’t spoil a thing.. The ending is terribly chilling and amazing at the same time. You don’t want to miss it.”You may hear sounds like voices, but they are the loons down south toward Prospect. The sound carries. Its funny.”

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