Pet Sematary--My Most Terrifying Read!

[goatfarmer123]

So this one time I was watching the X-Files and it was the one where this creepy wood-dwelling monster is killing people and it had glowing eyes... bet ya can see where this is going. Anyways, there was this one scene where it was hiding under a little boy's bed, and he looks over at it and all you can see are these glowing eyes. So I go up to my room and get ready for bed, and I'm still kinda freaked out but I'm a big girl so I decided just to check under my own bed really quick. I had turned out the lights in my room already but the hall lights where still on. You know how cats eyes reflect low level light? Yeah, my cat was under my bed. Dang animals and their reflective eyes! :P

[crazycrashink]

FONT="Arial"]I put reading Pet Sematary off for quite awhile because I had seen the movie, and wanted to forget it so I could have fresh impressions of the book. I knew the main plot from the movie, but the details in the book are terrifying. The scenes where Louis is walking to the MicMac burial ground have led me to decide never to be a hiker [/FONT]

[Zgirlie]

This was the first one I ever read. I got kicked out of class for it, actually....it was 3rd grade and apparently my teacher was not a fan. Shortly after I read it, I had to bury a baby mallard duck that I had briefly claimed as a pet, and I would often lie awake nights wondering what the soil of a man's heart would do to a duckling....

[Spawn]

For me the horror scenes in that book were more intense then in any book I've read after, I didn't find it as scary as The Shining, but that was because The Shining was a more frightening concept to me ,but when the graveyard scene came about, I was so terrified I had to stop reading for a bit. Great Book though.

[Natjen26]

I was like eight when I watched the adaptation of Pet Semetary (too young to be reading the story ). There's this scene in which Gage, back 'alive' again, waits under the bed of Jud and he slices Jud's Achilles tendon.

I think that for the next six months every time I had to go to bed, I jumped in from about a meter away, too afraid that Gage might be under my bed too. I never dared to look.
And now Pet Semetary is one of my favourite books of Stephen King, but I admit most are. I think 40 books of him are in my top five!!

[lilredkdn]

This book scarred me for life. I decided to read this book about a year after my son was born. Definately a bad idea. I don't think I could re-read this book if I wanted to.

[Lina]

Pet Semetary is one of my favorite books. I've read it about three times. I don't find it to be very scary but it's really thrilling. To my mind it is one of the best books of Stephen.

[michal]

It was the first of Mr. King's books I ever read, and you hardly forget a first love (although my second one, It, has certainly tried...).

I read it when I was no more that 11 or 12 and the ending, that is, teh very final paragraph, still gives me goosebumps.

[JohnDalglish]

I read it when I was no more that 11 or 12 and the ending, that is, teh very final paragraph, still gives me goosebumps.

Hi,

Indeed, I think the last line is the most chilling in literature.

'Darling', it said.'

Long days and pleasant nights

[harvester_of_sorrow]

I have read Pet Sematary cover to cover, but have yet to see the movie. I have my version that i see in my head when i read it, but should I even watch the movie? I've had times where the movie just ruins the book, and would rather not for this one. It was indeed hands down the most frightening things i've ever read not because of glowing eyes resembling to those of Church, but because it was all already told in my head. When my father died my freshmen year of highschool, I became Louis Creed. I didn't have a pet sematary to go to, but i had all the same thoughts he did and probably would've done the same thing. I had nightmares of my father's corpse for months after he died, just lika Zelda and rachel. I couldn't put the book down. It was kind of funny really. to see my past thoughts and feelings written down by someone who has never met me, yet said the same words I did. amazing.