And what works particularly well for him in this latest of his fictional nightmares is the way old Jud Crandall seems to be offering relief to Louis Creed. There is the authenticity of the story's Down East characters, particularly nice old Jud Crandall, who lives across the road from the Creeds and shows them the ''sematary.'' This problem he does not solve: in his final chapters, the narrator of ''Pet Sematary'' resorts to the trick of scene changes to keep the horror flowing.Yet the illusion of ''Pet Sematary'' is never seriously dispelled. SOMEWHERE, around the time in 1980 when his novel ''Firestarter'' was published, it was written (I think), or said, that Stephen King was at work on a book that was frightening even to him. / I.L.A.B.

Once again, as I edged myself nervously toward the climax of one of his thrillers, I found myself considering what wonders Stephen King could accomplish if he would only put his storytelling talents to serious use. ''And then Mr. King does something unspeakably cruel and heartbreaking, something that he has been toying with for a couple of books now, something bad enough so that he does not in the least appear to be straining for effect when he writes, by way of introducing what is going to happen next in ''Pet Sematary,'' ''It's probably wrong to believe there can be any limit to the horror which the human mind can experience. If your book order is heavy or over-sized, we may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required. )There is the author's sweetly folksy evocation of the Maine countryside (''and now there was goldenrod, that late-summer gossip which comes to tattle on autumn every year'') and, by way of contrast, the piling up on the page of brand-name products - Glad bags and Hefty bags, Cocoa Bears and Cokes, Schwinns and Liquiprins - annoying at times but useful to Mr. King in establishing the unstable quality of his domestic settings.There is Ellie's beloved cat, Winston Churchill, or Church, which seems to be killed one day by a speeding oil rig, but then comes back, ''like the cat in the nursery rhyme.

by a detailed code of ethics. A 1983 horror novel by Stephen King, Pet Sematary was nominated for a World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1984.

This was a fairly intriguing rumor, because since 1974, when his first novel, ''Carrie,'' came out, this prolific genius of horror had produced some fairly scary books, among the best of which were ''The Shining'' (1977) and ''The Stand'' (1978).But then, after that rumor got around, there came a number of books that were unlikely to have fit its description. PET SEMATARY by King, Stephen: (1983) First Edition. And then I had to ask myself: if Mr. King's aim in writing ''Pet Sematary'' was not entirely serious by some standard that I was vaguely invoking, then why, somebody please tell me, was I holding on to his book so hard that my knuckles had begun to turn white? It is out in the woods in back of the colonial house they have just driven all the way from Chicago to settle into.

''There are all the portentous epigraphs about famous burials and Jesus's raising of Lazarus.

http://www.abaa.org and/or http://www.ilab-lila.com The scarce manuscript suppressed first state of this proof being the authors typescript with some passages horribly crossed out. and see the best books the world has to offer !! These ! (This road should be called a highway really, because huge Orinco oil rigs come barreling along it every so often. MEMBER A.B.A.A. Back in the early 1980s - the peak of his fame - King said several times that his biggest fear by far was the death of one of his children. Not to be confused with the thinner bound proof which has been typeset. Part of King's reluctance to publish Pet Sematary was how personal it is. member booksellers to have a proven track record of experience and to abide It has little grave markers with messages on them, such as ''Smucky the Cat.

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