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The returned of Pet Sematary
King's novel uses a single resurrection site instead of a plague: what is buried there returns changed and malevolent. The returned are few and intelligent. The book was nominated for the World Fantasy Award and has been filmed twice.1
First appeared
1983
Published 14 November 1983Source work
Pet Sematary (1983)
Stephen KingMade in
USA
What causes it
A curse
An ancient Mi'kmaq burial ground beyond the pet cemetery returns whatever is buried in it.How you become one
A dead animal or person is buried in the old burial ground and comes back.
Intelligence
Clever
Weak spots
- lethal injection
- fire
When did it first appear?
Ancient world
Middle Ages
1500 to 1899
1900 to 1967
1968 to 1999
2000 to 2009
2010 to today
1983Published 14 November 1983
field notes
What the sources say
1
What comes back is changed: a cat turns vicious, a child comes back a killer1
2
One returned man knows secrets about the living he could not have learned1
3
King conceived it as a retelling of The Monkey's Paw after his daughter's cat was killed on a road1
4
King has called it the book of his that frightened him most1
5
Filmed in 1989 by Mary Lambert and again in 20191
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