Pet Sematary--My Most Terrifying Read!

[Jack Frost]

Okay, so now it's time to share the Pet Sematary story (as I had said I would in my first post to explain some of why it's the most terrifying book I've ever read)!

So, let me set the stage:

When I first read Pet Sematary, I would have been the summer before my sophomore year in high school back in 1987. The house we were living in at the time had aluminum siding. It was late one hot summer night. Late enough that I was the only one awake--yet, being Pet Sematary, I simply could not put the book down.

There I am, sitting up in bed, one small reading light on. I have reached the point in the book where Louis is journeying up to the REAL Sematary alone. Many would agree this is one of the most intense and frightening scenes in the entire book.

Suddenly, I hear a faint screeeeeech outside my window. Needless to say, I jumped just a little! So I ever so slowly peek out my window--nothing there! "Hmmmm", I think...heart beating a bit faster, but I return to the book. Reading at a feverish pace, palms sweating, heart racing...

SCREEEEECH, SCRATCH, SCRATCH, SCREEEEECH!!!!

So now, I'm pretty much freaking out. So I grab my flashlight, go to the window next to my bed, and shine the beam, right on a pair of glowing, beady little eyes looking back at me. The flashlight drops, my heart ready to explode, I'm sure my face as pale as a ghost (okay, probably the wrong choice of word)--now there is no "pretty much" about it--I have TOTALLY freaked!!!

I grab the flashlight, and go to look again.

Much to my relief (kinda), the light shines on a mother Raccoon and her babies. They had been outside the house scratching on the aluminum siding, providing a young teenage boy a mild heart-attack.

Adding to the horror and terror of a MASTERFUL story by Sai King, this gives the account of the most terrifying book experience in my life!

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

Great story, thankee for (finally) sharing it.

No kaincidence that it should be Pet Semetary then - 'what I consider to be the most frightening book I've ever written' (2000 Introduction).

Long days and pleasant nights

[Ubasti]

Great story. Thanks for sharing. I've experienced the little beady eyes glowing just outside my window too. It does pause your heart for a few second ... and then quickens it.

[nunu_chis]

It is funny that right now I have a cat looking trough my window and his eyes are very big and green and shining... he`s trying to be part of the family, but my dog wouldn`t let him. If he had been looking at me like that when I was reading Pet Sematary he wouldn`t have seemed only a nice cat, but a monster to me! LOL
I have had some bad experiences while I was reading at late hours too, the most recent was a spider by my side, that I hadn`t noticed until it was too close to me, while reading "the green mile", it was the part of Delacroix`s death and I was too "inside" the book as to look around until that huge spider (maybe it was normal size but it looked huge to me) was like one inch away from my leg and I ran, screamed and cry and it took me some minutes (almost hours) to recover from the shock. I really hate spiders!

[Jack Frost]

Good Lord I don't know what I would have done if I had shone my flashlight down on a cat! I'm quite sure whatever it was, it would have woken up everyone else in the house!!!

[tillyn]

Well, that would scare anyone. Ever hear cats fighting? We thought it was babies crying they really sound weird. The darn cats were on the fence at my bedroom window staring down one another. Yes Pet Semetary cat came into my mind.

[jack12k8]

I've read a ton of horror type books, but I was most terrified when I read Amityville Horror when I was in Jr. High School back in the day..the levitation got me..prob. would not have effected me as much if I had read it when I was older.

[tycho]

While reading through Pet Sematary, I got a call that one of my friends had died. After a very long couple of hours, I got another call explaining that it was actually his father that had died. While this was still horrible news, it was a huge relief to me, which led to quite a bit of shame. I couldn't pick up the book for a long while after that.

[c13tex]

The first time I watched "The Exorcist" I was home by myself, I was 15 at the time, and it was about 10:30 at night. So I'm sitting in front of the TV in a darkened living room, engrossed in the HBO channel, when my older sister's baby grand piano behind me starts playing by itself. The hairs on the back of my neck went as stiff as bristles on a brush, and my heart rate went from about 100 to 150 like a jackhammer! Turns out it was the damn cat that had slunk into the living room without me knowing it, hopped silently up on the piano, and had started walking down the piano keyboard in a slow and lurking manner. Dang feline almost gave me a teenaged coronary!

[Susanne]

The first book I read and I loved it. I read it in 1993 (I was 11 years old). I heard about the movie but I didn´t know who SK was. When I saw the book I bought it out of curiosity and got hooked. SK´s books became my addiction and I bought more and more of his books. My boyfriend doesn´t like horror at all and now he has to live with it. Thanks Stephen.