I can see why across many of Kings interviews he claims this one as his scariest work. While maybe not as frightening as his other stuff, no where near as gruesome, and it even lacks on a lot of the high paced fuckery King likes to put in his second acts; this is a truly horrifying book.

This book is a slow and intimate trip down the path of grief, and it excels in exploring the “natural” part of all our lives. The only thing aside from life itself that is guaranteed, Death.

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Un hermoso día de agosto, el doctor Louis Creed llega con su esposa Rachel, sus hijos Eileen y Gage y el gato Church a su nuevo hogar, una gran casa situada en las afueras de Ludlow, Nueva Inglaterra. El lugar parece tranquilo y lo bastante alejado del ajetreo urbano. Detrás de la casa de los Creed hay incluso un campo de enterramientos, en donde los niños del lugar han sepultado a sus animales durante generaciones: el Cementerio de animales. Pero enseguida empieza la pesadilla... al menos para Louis. En su primer día de trabajo en el centro médico de la Universidad de Maine, le llevan el cuerpo horriblemente mutilado del estudiante Victor Pascow. El joven trata de advertir al doctor Creed acerca del lugar situado detrás del Cementerio de animales, usado en tiempos antiguos por los indios MicMac e impregnado de un espíritu diabólico. El gato Church muere atropellado por un camión y Judd Crandall, un anciano vecino, persuade a Louis para que entierre al animalito en el cementerio de animales. Con ello, el doctor invoca fuerzas ocultas que es mejor no perturbar, y cuando la tragedia hiere a la familia Creed, Louis se embarca en una terrorífica aventura con consecuencias que van más allá de la comprensión humana... o de la cordura.

Stephen King is awesome!

I really liked this book.It was not scary or creepy but the story was interesting.The idea of that sematary and zombies..was new new to me.I didn't like the characters very much,especially Louis Creed.I don't know
why and Church is one hell of a creepy cat.
I hated the book when it seemed to go on forever,especially during the first 200 pages.I thought the book was boring..slowly it turned interesting.Ellie was one of the characters that I liked.I loved Timmy Baterman too,weird!
I don't have anything else to say for now.I don't think this one of his best books and I haven't read his other books..but I'm looking forward to it now.

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When I was a kid I lived near a Pet Cemetary. I used to think it was pretty scary to have to go near it when it was dark, or just scary to go inside it because if you went far enough there was a large dog statue which was creepy as shit. This did not keep me from going there in the middle of the night once, if I recall correctly ... but I'm pretty sure I didn't very far into it.

Had I read this book, I would've stayed far away, is all I'm saying.

Not that the idea of a pet cemetary isn't sweet, but what lies beyond is ... there is nothing good there. If there's one thing I think we can all agree is, it's that what's dead should stay dead, no matter how painful that may be. This may be easy to say for me, being a reader, in a world where something like this could (hopefully) never happen ... but at some point you have to learn the fucking lesson, don't you think?

This book was scary as fuck by the end of it, and I'm really glad I managed to finish it before my parents went to bed. Still not sure how much sleep I'll get, but heh, I'm happy I didn't have to finish it late at night with no one around. Even if it's just a book.

Did enjoy the "cameos" of other King novels in this one. Shared universes are awesome. ( )

Many love this, but I am not a fan of this particular title. Buring a pet in an old burial ground once with horrible results, okay, but to keep buring pets and humans there made no sense to me. ( )