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Pet Sematary

by Stephen King

A family’s idyllic new home hides a burial ground in the woods where children have long laid their beloved pets to rest.

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About Pet Sematary

The house looked right, felt right to Dr Louis Creed. Rambling, old, unsmart and comfortable. A place where the family could settle; the children grow and play and explore. The rolling hills and meadows of Maine seemed a world away from the fume-choked dangers of Chicago. Only the occasional big truck out on the two-lane highway, grinding up through the gears, hammering down the long gradients, growled out an intrusive threat. But behind the house and far away from the road: that was safe. Just a carefully cleared path up into the woods where generations of local children have processed with the solemn innocence of the young, taking with them their dear departed pets for burial.

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Darkness
Extreme
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Slow
Content warnings
  • animal death
  • child death
  • death
  • grief
  • blood
  • gore
  • murder
  • car accident
  • injury detail
  • sexual content

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