Customer Reviews
Pet Semetary - By: Mrs. J. E. Hill, 29 Apr 2008 
An absolutely brilliant book, a story well told & in keeping with the film. I have owned the book for many years & despite owning many books I always go back to it because I know I am guaranteed a good read. My paperback is huge & tatty through so much reading! I thoroughly 100% recommend it.
What can i say, this was before King Padded his books with filler and it rocks. - By: B. J. Crossley, 20 Mar 2008 "If you go down to the woods today, your in for a big surprize. If you go down to the woods today you wont believe your eyes, For every wrong thing that ever there was...................................... Todays the day the Teddybears have their picnic."
As a constant reader of Stephen King, in my personal rating list this is his number one. - By: Maciej K., 08 Aug 2007 Stephen King wrote a lot of VERY good books, & I loved almost every one of them ("Firestarter" & "Rose Madder" were slightly less good), but this is my personal favourite. Why? Because of a perfect construction & a deeply true message, which is "It is useless, deadly & totallly stupid to try to reject the fondamental laws governing the universe - & trying it is just giving to the temptation by the evil, with the capital E". The book tells about maybe the most difficult law to accept - that people die. And sometimes they die well before they managed to live. Now, the hero of the book will refuse this fact - & he will suffer the same fate as people who proudly refuse to accept gravitation & walk in the void from the top of a tower.... And the road that leads him to the doom will go through the Pet Sematary.... A great, inteligent & incredibly terrifying book.
Back from the dead... - By: dogbarkssome, 08 Mar 2007 A young family move to a new home next to a busy main road, while in the woods behind their property is an old Indian burial ground with the secret power to bring the dead back to life...it doesn't take a genuis to work out where King is headed with Pet Sematary, but the result is a powerful read. The 'old Indian burial ground' may now be a horror cliche, & the influence of the W.W. Jacob's classic 'The Monkey's Paw' short story (freely admitted & referred to in the novel) is massive, but for sheer darkness Pet Sematary is one of King's most affecting novels. Most of Stephen King's novels have at least some brighter rays of hope shining through the horrific events, but with it's central theme of the inevitability of death 'Pet Sematary' is a resolutely bleak experience - while King may have written better novels in terms of sheer horror (witness the gutwrenching tale of the heroine's disabled sister, or the intensley eerie tale of the killed soldier who returns to a shambling semblance of life) this is probably King's strongest work. If there is any criticism here it's that King has a tendency to overstretch his material, particularly in the second half of the novel where every event is recounted in laborious detail for little gain, but despite it's rather bloated size this is still a key work from this author.
Creepy Reading - By: TomBeTom, 27 Feb 2007 Published in 1983, "Pet Sematary" came around at a time when Stephen King wasn't one for dragging out his novels too much. It's mostly because of the length of this book that the novel is such an easy, enjoyable little read. Not too detailed but detailed enough for the reader to get what's going on in the story exactly; "Pet Sematary" is gripping & creep reading throughout, but particularly within the final hundred pages, where the story eventuallly comes to a head -- even if some readers will percieve the ending as being a bit rushed.
"Pet Sematary" is about a Doctor named Louis Creed who moves to the town of Ludlow, Maine along with his family. Young daughter Ellie, baby son Gage, wife Rachel & cat Winston Churchill (Church for short). There he & his family meet Jud Crandalll & his wife Norma, who live in thehouse across the road. When Church the cat is hit by a truck on the road in front of the Creeds' house when alll of the family barring Louis are on holiday; Jud Crandalll takes Louis beyond the neighbouring Pet Sematary & to an indian burial ground with the power of bringing the recently deceased back to life once buried in its ground. Church returns home alive but different. And when one of Louis Creed's own children suffers the same fate as the newly reincarnated cat, Louis begins to consider taking his son's body up there. This is despite Jud warning him against it with a story of another person who buried his son up there & telling that what came back was an "abomination".
Stephen King doesn't pick up the pace until near the end of the book, where things actuallly become scary. Describing ghosts, demons & monsters in a way that he has failed to do in some of his more recent horror novels. In "Pet Sematary" he makes his novel scary & creepy with total ease.
If what you're looking for is a scary, tense, creepy horror novel then you wouldn't be left too disappointed with Stephen King's 1983 novel "Pet Sematary". Excellent storytelling.
