Synopses & Reviews
Don’t miss the classic tale from King of Horror and #1
New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, described by
Publishers Weekly as “the most frightening novel Stephen King has ever written.”
When the Creeds move into a beautiful old house in rural Maine, it all seems too good to be true: physician father, beautiful wife, charming little daughter, adorable infant son—and now an idyllic home. As a family, they’ve got it all...right down to the friendly car.
But the nearby woods hide a blood-chilling truth—more terrifying than death itself—and hideously more powerful.
The Creeds are going to learn that sometimes dead is better.
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"The most frightening book Stephen King has ever written!" Publishers Weekly
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"Masterful, chilling, juicily horrible....Like most of Mr. King's novels, Pet Sematary loses credibility toward the end, as it gains in gore....Nor is Pet Sematary his best book as a piece of writing....Reader, beware. This is a book for those who like to take their scare straight with a chaser of despair." Annie Gottlieb, The New York Times Book Review
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"Why, someone please tell me, was I holding on to this book so hard that my knuckles had begun to turn white?" Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times
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"Stephen King's newest reign of terror is a hair-raiser....[H]e oozes Nameless Dread right into your shoes in waves of unspeakable gore...and are you trapped! Ayiee....You'll be scared!" Chicago Sun-Times
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"A stunner....A guaranteed blockbuster....King gets you to believe the unbelievable....[I]t scared the starch out of me." Detroit News
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"For sheer horror, Stephen King wins skeleton hands down. A bunch more as good as Pet Sematary and King will outdistance even Poe." Cosmopolitan
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"This is vintage King, with the suspense slow, savored, and inexorable....[T]he ending is inevitable...but the reader simply cannot help finding out how Creed gets there, and breath is held almost the entire way. King fans will love it....A great read for cold winter nights." VOYA
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"Unrelenting, convincing...awesome power...his best yet!" Pittsburgh Press
Synopsis
Now a major motion picture from Paramount Pictures starring John Lithgow, Jason Clarke, and Amy Seimetz Stephen King's #1 New York Times bestseller Pet Sematary, a "wild, powerful, disturbing" (The Washington Post Book World) classic about evil that exists far beyond the grave--among King's most iconic and beloved 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...
Synopsis
Now a major motion picture 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 King's 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...
Synopsis
First published in 1983, Pet Sematary has since been regarded as one of Stephen King's most frightening and controversial novels. Daring to cross the boundaries of conventional fiction, King has woven a tale so fundamentally startling that he himself was hesitant for it to see the light of day upon its completion. A multilayered examination into the nature of untimely death, shattering loss, and utter desperation, Pet Sematary tears asunder the very fabric connecting our seemingly normal world and the afterlife...leaving readers with an awful truth too haunting to forget.
About the Author
Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), the short story collection The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, the Bill Hodges trilogy End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and now an AT&T Audience Network original television series), Doctor Sleep, and Under the Dome. His novel 11/22/63 — a Hulu original television series event — was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower and It are the basis for major motion pictures. He is the recipient of the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.