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- The book was inspired by Stephen King’s own life. Stephen King’s inspiration for Pet Sematary came quite clearly and directly from events in his own life.
- King didn’t want to publish the book. For all of its fantastic elements, Pet Sematary is the story of a family who loses a child, and the madness and pain that grief puts them through as it ultimately drives Dr. Louis Creed to do the unthinkable.
- It was published out of necessity. After writing Pet Sematary, King simply filed it away in a drawer and went to work on his next book, later writing in an introduction to the novel that he didn’t expect it would ever be published “in my lifetime.”
- He wrote it at his neighbor’s house. Another plot element from Pet Sematary that King borrowed from his real life is the presence of a kind neighbor, and the neighbor actually had a hand in helping King compose the book.
ISBN. 978-0-385-18244-7. 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 1984, [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.
Pet Sematary is a book that has a long build and then a really quick unraveling. I do disagree with the "cemetery heist" part of the book, though. Personally I found Louis' self-justification and the horror of digging up his child to be one of the stronger sections of the novel.
- Publishing The 1983 Novel
- The 1989 Film
- The New Pet Sematary
Is it also true the only reason you finally published Pet Sematarywas to settle a book contract? That's what happened! That's the reason I published the book. Otherwise, it would still be in a drawer somewhere. How did all that go down? We had signed this bullsh— thing with Doubleday. The old Doubleday in those days. It was called the Author Invest...
Given your feelings about this book, why did you write the screenplay for the 1989 movie? It feels like you kind of want to put this book at arm's distance. Sometimes you say to yourself, "Maybe I can take this and make it a little bit better, or maybe I just wanna face the thing that scares me the most." So I went in and I wrote it. The more you w...
The directors of the new film, Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer, changed some big things in your story, but they also kept a lot faithful. How do you feel about the new Pet Sematary? It's f—ing great! It's a really good movie. It's a grown-up, adult kind of movie. It's not like 12 semi-clad teens get killed in a summer camp. In this particular time ...
For more than a decade /R/HORROR has been reddit.com's gateway to all things Horror: from movies & TV, to books & games. I feel like talking about Pet Sematary (2019) I have read the novel and the OG movie was the first horror movie I ever watched as a kid, so I decided to give this one a try. My expectations were very low, given it came out in ...
Sep 1, 2021 · When Pet Sematary is ultimately remade for the sixth time in 50 years, people may start to forget details of the original, but they will never forget Fred Gwynne’s Jud Crandall.
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Feb 7, 2019 · The directors of the new Pet Sematary remake explain why they made one big, startling change to Stephen King's story. Published in 1983, Pet Sematary weaves a tale of supernatural horror as it follows what happens to the Creed family after they move to rural Maine and stumble upon a burial ground for pets that possesses the power to bring the ...
