One day, his daughter's cat was killed by a passing truck. In the woods behind his house, local children had created an informal pet cemetery. In early 1979, Stephen was serving as a writer-in-residence at the University of Maine at Orono and living in a rented house in nearby Orrington that bordered a major truck route which frequently claimed the lives of dogs and cats. but mostly you do it because once you've been up there, it's your place, and you belong to it. You do it because it gets hold of you, says the nice old man with the secret. and ungodly temptations.Īs the story unfolds, so does a nightmare of the supernatural, one so relentless you won't want. But behind the "pet sematary," there is another burial ground, one that lures people to it with seductive promises. Set in a small town in Maine to which a young doctor, Louis Creed, and his family have moved from Chicago, Pet Sematary begins with a visit to a graveyard where generations of children have buried their beloved pets. Has the author of Carrie, The Shining, Cujo, and Christine ever conceived a story so horrifying that he was for a time unwilling to finish writing it? Yes.
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