Pet Sematary

Doubleday (1983)

The Creeds. An ideal family. Physician father, beautiful wife, charming little daughter, adorable infant son. Close, loving, wonderfully alive. When they found the old house and enchanting grounds in rural Maine, it seemed too good to be true. It was. For the truth was bloodchilling - something more horrifying than death itself, and hideously more powerful...

Main Characters:

Stanley (Stanny) Bouchard
the man who told about the secret Micmac burial ground.
Church
the Creed's 5 year-old cat. Louis buries him in the secret burial ground and he comes back.
Gage Creed
Louis's son, who is killed by a truck, Louis eventually buries him in the secret burial ground
Louis Creed
the man who can't resist the secret behind the Pet Sematary.
Rachel Creed
Louis's wife and another visitor to the secret burial ground
Notes of Interest:
  1. King wrote Pet Sematary while living in a rental home in Orrington, Maine which had a pet cemetary behind the house.
  2. Cujo was mentioned in the book as the St. Bernard who went rabid downstate


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Ed Nomura

Last updated: Mar 28, 1996