Pet Sematary - Hardcover

King, Stephen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385182449 ISBN 13: 9780385182447

Publisher: Doubleday, 1983

Synopsis

Doubleday, 1983, First edition. A pet cemetery in the Maine woods hides the horrifying secret of an ancient Indian burial ground from which the dead, animal or human, can be raised.

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Review:

Renowned for its superior productions, BBC radio may have outdone itself by adapting Stephen King's Pet Sematary to audio. A clamorous cacophony of talking, whining, whistling, and howling, Pet Sematary is a quick, entertaining earful for those who don't have other auditory distractions to contend with, such as a car full of talking whining, whistling, howling children. However, the melodramatic prose marries well with the acting; such is the case when one reader--whose voice bears an uncanny resemblance to Kramer's from Seinfeld--tells another about the effects of the Pet Sematary: "Heroin makes junkies feel good when they put it in their arms, but all the time it's poisoning their mind and body--this place can be like that and don't you ever forget it!" (Running time: three hours, two cassettes)

From the Back Cover:

"Sometimes dead is better...".

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 cat.

But the nearby woods hide a blood-chilling truth -- more terrifying than death itself...and hideously more powerful.

About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0385182449
• ISBN 13: 9780385182447
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384