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Pet Sematary

by Stephen King

A rural home with a dangerous boundary

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  • Bestseller

    #1 New York Times bestseller

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A rural home with a dangerous boundary

A family’s move to Ludlow, Maine, places a new beginning beside two unsettling features of the landscape: a road where trucks pass too quickly and a makeshift cemetery in the nearby woods. When Dr. Louis Creed is warned away from a burial ground beyond it, the story’s central tension takes shape around grief, temptation, and the limits people may be willing to cross. The rural setting brings everyday family life into contact with a supernatural threat, while the graveyard’s promise points toward a horror rooted in what might lie beyond death.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Adult readers seeking supernatural horror
  • Readers interested in horror centered on family, grief, and mortality
  • Stephen King readers looking for a rural Maine setting

Themes

Grief and mortalityTemptation and forbidden boundariesFamily life under threatSupernatural horror

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Book overview

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 his 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...
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