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Pet Sematary is a 1983 horror novel by American writer Stephen King. The novel was nominated for a World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1986,[1] and adapted into two films: one in 1989 and another in 2019. In November 2013, PS Publishing released Pet Sematary in a limited 30th-anniversary edition.[2]
Plot[edit]
Louis Creed, a doctor from Chicago, is appointed director of the University of Maine's campus health service. He moves to a large house near the small town of Ludlow with his wife Rachel, their two young children, Ellie and Gage, and Ellie's cat, Church. From the moment they arrive, the family runs into trouble: Ellie hurts her knee, and Gage is stung by a bee. Their new neighbor, an elderly man named Jud Crandall, comes to help. He warns Louis and Rachel about the highway that runs past their house, which is frequented by speeding trucks.
Jud and Louis quickly become close friends. Since Louis's father died when he was three, he sees Jud as a surrogate father. A few weeks after the Creeds move in, Jud takes the family on a walk in the woods behind their home. A well-tended path leads to a pet cemetery (misspelled 'sematary' on the sign) where the children of the town bury their deceased animals. The outing provokes a heated argument between Louis and Rachel the next day. Rachel disapproves of discussing death, and she worries about how Ellie may be affected by what she saw at the 'sematary.' It is explained later that Rachel was traumatized by the early death of her sister, Zelda, from spinal meningitisâan issue that is brought up several times in flashbacks. Louis empathizes with his wife and blames her parents for her trauma, who left Rachel at home alone with her sister when she died.
Louis himself has a traumatic experience during the first week of classes. Victor Pascow, a student who has been fatally injured in an automobile accident, addresses his dying words to Louis personally, even though the two men are strangers. On the night following Pascow's death, Louis experiences what he believes is a very vivid dream in which he meets Pascow, who leads him to the deadfall at the back of the 'sematary' and warns him to not go beyond there. Louis wakes up in bed the next morning, convinced it was, in fact, a dreamâuntil he finds his feet and bedsheets covered with dried mud and pine needles. Nevertheless, Louis dismisses the dream as the product of the stress he experienced during Pascow's death, coupled with his wife's lingering anxieties about the subject of death.
On Halloween, Jud's wife Norma suffers a near-fatal heart attack but makes a quick recovery thanks to Louis's help. Jud is grateful and decides to repay Louis after Church is run over outside his home around Thanksgiving. Rachel and the kids are visiting Rachel's parents in Chicago, but Louis frets over breaking the bad news to Ellie. Sympathizing with Louis, Jud takes him to the 'sematary,' supposedly to bury Church. But instead of stopping there, Jud leads Louis farther on to 'the real cemetery:' an ancient burial ground that was once used by the Miêkmaq Tribe. There, Louis buries the cat on Jud's instruction. The next afternoon, Church returns home; the usually vibrant and lively cat now acts ornery and, in Louis's words, 'a little dead.' Church hunts for mice and birds, ripping them apart without eating them. He also smells so bad that Ellie no longer wants him in her room at night. Jud confirms that Church has been resurrected and that Jud himself once buried his dog there when he was younger. Louis, deeply disturbed, begins to wish that he hadn't buried Church there.
Several months later, two-year-old Gage is killed by a speeding truck. Overcome with despair, Louis considers bringing his son back to life with the help of the burial ground. Jud, guessing what Louis is planning, attempts to dissuade him by telling him the story of Timmy Baterman, the last person who was resurrected by the burial ground. Timmy Baterman was killed in action during World War II. Timmy's body was shipped back to the United States, and his father Bill buried Timmy in the burial ground. Timmy returned malevolent, terrorizing the people of the town with secrets that Jud asserts he had no earthly way of knowing. Timmy was stopped by his father, Bill, who killed Timmy and set their house on fire before shooting himself. Jud states that he believes that whatever came back was not Timmy, but a 'demon' that had possessed his corpse. He concludes that 'sometimes, dead is better' and states that 'the place has a power... its own evil purpose,' and that it may have caused Gage's death because Jud introduced Louis to it.
Despite Jud's warning and his own reservations about the idea, Louis's grief and guilt spur him to carry out his plan. Louis exhumes Gage's body from his grave and inters him in the burial ground. Gage returns from the dead, entirely different from when he was alive. Now malicious in both his words and actions, he finds one of Louis's scalpels and kills both Jud and Rachel. After tricking and killing Church, Louis confronts his son and also sends him back to the grave with a lethal injection of chemicals from his medical supply stock.
After burning the Crandall house down, Louis returns to the burial ground with his wife's corpse, thinking that if he buries the body faster than he did Gage's, there will be a different result. Following all of these tragic events, Louis has also aged in physical appearance, with white hair and wrinkles. One of his colleagues, Steve Masterton, notices him walking into the woods with Rachel's body. Steve, while fearful and concerned, is influenced by the power of the burial ground too, and even considers helping Louis bury Rachel, but he flees in terror and eventually moves away to St. Louis. Later, Louis sits indoors alone, playing solitaire, and Rachel's reanimated corpse walks up behind him and drops a cold hand on his shoulder, while her voice rasps, 'Darling.'
Background[edit]
In 1979, King was a 'writer-in-residence' at the University of Maine and the house he was renting was adjacent to a major road where dogs and cats were often killed by oncoming trucks. After his daughter's cat was killed by a truck along that road, he explained the death of the pet to his daughter and buried the cat. Three days later, King imagined what would happen if a family suffered the same tragedy but the cat came back to life 'fundamentally wrong.' He then imagined what would happen if that family's young son were also killed by a passing truck. He decided to write a book based on these ideas, and that the book would be a re-telling of 'The Monkey's Paw' (1902), a short story by W. W. Jacobs about parents whose son resurrects after they wish for that to happen.[3]
King has gone on record stating that of all the novels he has written, Pet Sematary is the one which genuinely scared him the most.[4][5]
Adaptations[edit]Films[edit]
A film adaptation was released in 1989. Directed by Mary Lambert, it starred Dale Midkiff as Louis, Fred Gwynne as Jud, Denise Crosby as Rachel, Brad Greenquist as Victor, Miko Hughes as Gage, and Blaze Berdahl as Ellie. King, who wrote the screenplay for the film, also had a cameo as a minister. Zelda was portrayed by male actor Andrew Hubatsek because the filmmakers could not find a woman bony enough to portray the terminally ill girl.[citation needed] The film received mixed reviews, but was a commercial success. A sequel, Pet Sematary Two, was released in 1992.
A second film adaptation of the novel was released on April 5, 2019. Directed by Dennis Widmyer and Kevin Kölsch,[6] the film stars Jason Clarke as Louis Creed, Amy Seimetz as Rachel Creed, John Lithgow as Jud Crandall, Jeté Laurence as Ellie Creed, and twins Hugo and Lucas Lavoie as Gage Creed.
Radio[edit]
In 1997 BBC Radio 4 broadcast a dramatization of the story in six half-hour episodes, later re-edited into three hour-long episodes. It was adapted by Gregory Evans and starred John Sharian as Louis Creed, Briony Glassco as Rachel Creed and Lee Montague as Jud Crandall. The production was directed by Gordon House.[7]
Music[edit]
The Ramones recorded a song of the same name as the theme for the 1989 film adaptation.[8] It appeared on their album Brain Drain.[9] It was later covered by the band Starcrawler for the 2019 film.[10]
In 2002, New York horrorcore rapper Cage wrote the song 'Ballad of Worms' which was featured on the album Eastern Conference All Stars III for the independent hip-hop label Eastern Conference Records.[11] Once thought to be about his relationship and struggle with the hip-hop community, he later revealed it was a love song dedicated to the Pet Sematary character Zelda.[12]
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External links[edit]
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Pet Sematary is a 1983 horror novel that was written by Stephen King. This novel was nominated for a world fantasy award for best novel in 1986, and adapted into a 1989 film with the same name. In November 2013, PS Publishing released Pet Sematary in a limited 30th Anniversary Edition. It is a fictional exploration of the authorâs greatest fear. Stephen king has become a much beloved American author partly due to his ability to tap into primal human fears. Generally this book focuses on the Universal fears all human beings share of things that go bump in the night. The story of this book centers on Louis Creed, a family man and a doctor who is finally beginning to establish himself professionally. The novel begins as the creed family moves into their beautiful new home in Ludlow, Maine. A path on the edge of the creed property leads up to a pet cematary, which has been maintained for years by generation after generation of neighborhood children. On Louisâ first day of work, a student is hit by a car and dies before Louisâ eyes. In 1978, King has returned to his alma mater, the University of Maine at Orono, to teach for a year as a gesture of gratitude for the education he had received there. Pet Sematary was made into a film in the autumn of 1988 that was released in April 1989. There was also a sequel of Pet Sematary two. The subsequent success of the book made King note how both Americans and British readers liked it despite him considering Pet Sematary too bleak in how âit just spirals down into darkness.
About Stephen King:
Stephen King was born on 21 September, 1947. He is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. His books sold more than 350 million copies, many of his books have been adapted into feature films, miniseries, television shows and comic books. King has published 54 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman and six nonfiction books. He received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and British Fantasy Society awards. He also received American Library Association best books for young adults.
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