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Pet Sematary - by Stephen King (Paperback)

Pet Sematary - by Stephen King (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A specially designed collector's trade edition of the King classic. Dr. Louis Creed and his wife Rachel chose rural Maine to settle their family and bring up their children. It was a better place than smog-covered Chicago--or so they thought. But that was before Louis became acquainted with the old pet burial ground located in the backwoods of the quiet community of Ludlow.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Now a major motion picture! </b><b>Stephen King's #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestseller is a "wild, powerful, disturbing" (<i>The Washington Post Book World</i>) classic about evil that exists far beyond the grave--among King's most iconic and frightening novels.</b> <p/>When Dr. Louis Creed takes a new job and moves his family to the idyllic rural town of Ludlow, Maine, this new beginning seems too good to be true. Despite Ludlow's tranquility, an undercurrent of danger exists here. Those trucks on the road outside the Creed's beautiful old home travel by just a little too quickly, for one thing...as is evidenced by the makeshift graveyard in the nearby woods where generations of children have buried their beloved pets. Then there are the warnings to Louis both real and from the depths of his nightmares that he should not venture beyond the borders of this little graveyard where another burial ground lures with seductive promises and ungodly temptations. A blood-chilling truth is hidden there--one more terrifying than death itself, and hideously more powerful. As Louis is about to discover for himself sometimes<i>, dead is better</i>...<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Detroit News</i> A stunner....King gets you to believe the unbelievable.<br><br><i>Pittsburgh Press</i> Unrelenting, convincing...awesome power...his best yet!<br><br><i>Publishers Weekly</i> The most frightening novel Stephen King has ever written.<br><br><i>Washington Post Book World</i> Wild, powerful, disturbing.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes <i>If It Bleeds</i>, <i>The Institute</i>, <i>Elevation</i>, <i>The Outsider</i>, <i>Sleeping Beauties</i> (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: <i>End of Watch</i>, <i>Finders Keepers</i>, and <i>Mr. Mercedes</i> (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and an AT&T Audience Network original television series). His novel <i>11/22/63</i> was named a top ten book of 2011 by <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> and won the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works <i>The Dark Tower</i>, <i>It</i>, <i>Pet Sematary</i>, and <i>Doctor Sleep</i> are the basis for major motion pictures, with <i>It </i>now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

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