Awesome!, February 18, 2006
Reviewer: P. Robinson "Relic113" (Calgary)
Pet Cemetery is classic King. A young family moves into a new house in the countryside. A more picturesque image is hard to imagine. A mom and dad, with a young son and daughter [and a pet cat of course] all enjoying their new life... The only problem is that they happen to live next to a very large highway, just over the hill. The wise old neighbor warns the family that many good dog and cat have been lost to the transport trucks that speed along that stretch of road. However, the family doesn't heed the warning. The family cat is killed on the road, and after seeing how distraught his children are he buries the cat in an old Indian burial ground - after recalling his neighbor mentioning that animals are rumored to come back from the dead. The ground however, has turned foul, and the objects that return are only demonic shadows of their former selves. The family did not learn their lesson from the cat's return - and several months later the son roams out onto the highway as a truck is cresting the hill...
Read this book if you want to be scared and entertained. It is reminiscent of the lessons from the classic short story "The Monkey's Paw", and King pulls no punches when describing the horror of losing a family member - even if that member is only a pet.
Reviewer: P. Robinson "Relic113" (Calgary)
Pet Cemetery is classic King. A young family moves into a new house in the countryside. A more picturesque image is hard to imagine. A mom and dad, with a young son and daughter [and a pet cat of course] all enjoying their new life... The only problem is that they happen to live next to a very large highway, just over the hill. The wise old neighbor warns the family that many good dog and cat have been lost to the transport trucks that speed along that stretch of road. However, the family doesn't heed the warning. The family cat is killed on the road, and after seeing how distraught his children are he buries the cat in an old Indian burial ground - after recalling his neighbor mentioning that animals are rumored to come back from the dead. The ground however, has turned foul, and the objects that return are only demonic shadows of their former selves. The family did not learn their lesson from the cat's return - and several months later the son roams out onto the highway as a truck is cresting the hill...
Read this book if you want to be scared and entertained. It is reminiscent of the lessons from the classic short story "The Monkey's Paw", and King pulls no punches when describing the horror of losing a family member - even if that member is only a pet.
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