Pet Sematary

Pet Sematary is a 1983 novel by Stephen King. It was adapted into a film in 1989 and a second film adaptation is scheduled to be released in April 2019. The book takes place in semi-rural Ludlow, Maine, a small town that Chicago doctor, Louis Creed, has just moved to with his family. Dr. Creed has taken a job at the university and moved his family against the wishes of his wife’s parents, with whom he does not get along. Trouble begins the moment the Creed family steps onto their new property, as Louis’s daughter, Ellie, falls off a swing and scrapes her knee and the Creeds’ son, Gage, gets stung by a bee. An elderly neighbor, Jud, comes to help, and he and Louis become fast friends, with Louis viewing Jud as a surrogate father. Jud warns about the dangerous road they live on and shows the Creed family the pet cemetery on their new land; the family’s proximity to death makes Louis’s wife, Rachel, uncomfortable, as she was traumatized as a child by the violent death of her sister, Zelda, from spinal meningitis.

Death follows Louis like a shadow: the first week at his new job, Louis holds a university student, Victor Pascow, as he dies after getting hit by a car.