Pascow stopped near SMUCKY THE CAT, HE WAS OBEDIENT and turned back toward Louis. The horror, the terrorhe felt these things would grow in him until his body blew apart under their soft yet implacable pressure. Pascow was grinning. His bloody lips were wrinkled back from his teeth, and his healthy road-crew tan in the moons bony light had become overlaid with the white of a corpse about to be sewn into its winding shroud. He lifted one arm and pointed. Louis looked in that direction and moaned. His eyes grew wide, and he crammed his knuckles against his mouth. There was coolness on his cheeks, and he realized that in the extremity of his terror he had begun to weep.
Pet Semetary is a novel made of nothing short of nightmares: King portrays the breakdown of a lovely family as, in no uncertain terms, horrendous. Louis is haunted by a ghost of a killed student on his campus, tormented by a pet cemetery just behind his house, and bereaved when his son is run over. The novel is set around the grounds behind the pet cemetery and the evil magic they hold. The book really is scary, and the passage above is only one of the goose bump-inducing moments within as Louis follows a dead man into the woods behind his house. The book is worth a read for the depiction of what desperate measures a man will go through in order to save his family - and for the bits where you'll scream out loud because the horrors of the pet cemetery are often just too much to bear. What's moments from Stephen King have you leaving the hall light on when you go to bed? Let us know in the comments below.
I love Stephen King and music festivals; I eat my toast upside down; I daydream about getting married probably a bit too much; and I wish every day for a pet sausage dog puppy (who never materialises – sob).
