Pet Sematary
Animal burial ground
Pet Sematary is a 1983 Stephen King horror novel about a burial ground that brings the dead back to life—though what returns is never quite right.
The deliberate misspelling suggests a child's hand-lettered sign.
The title has become shorthand for the warning that some things shouldn't be brought back: That relationship is a Pet Sematary—let it stay dead.
- Stephen KingBestselling horror fiction writer
- horror novelScary long-form fiction
- undeadDeceased yet animate
- burialPlacing deceased underground
- groundSolid surface underfoot
resurrection · cursed · cat · Creed · Wendigo · Maine · grief · horror · dead zone · grave · death · reanimation · Church · soil · haunted · ritual · barrier · evil
- horrorhorror, terror, fear, dread, haunted
- Horror FilmsThe Exorcist, Halloween, The Shining, Friday the 13th, Night of the Living Dead
- 1989 FilmsBatman, Dead Poets Society, Driving Miss Daisy, Do the Right Thing, Glory
- Stephen KingCarrie, The Stand, The Shining, Misery, The Green Mile
- Paramount FilmsThe Godfather, Titanic, Forrest Gump, Top Gun, Grease
- American LiteratureThe Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick, Moby Dick
Pet Sematarypeaceful rest
Calm, untroubled dormancy
eternal sleep · natural death · letting go · final rest · closure
Pet Semataryhallowed ground
Place of spiritual reverence
consecrated ground · sacred grove · heaven · paradise · memorial garden