From Our Editors
When Dr. Louis Creed relocates his young family from hectic,
smog-covered Chicago to the backwoods of Maine, he has dreams of a
quiet, peaceful existence. The good doctor's solitude is shattered,
however, after a visit to a graveyard in the woods near his new
house, where generations of children have put their beloved pets to
rest. The secluded cemetery is far more sinister than it appears
and the Creed family soon becomes entangled in a supernatural
nightmare. Pet Cemetery is one of the
most terrifying horror novels around, so much so that it even
frightened its author, Stephen King, who at one
point considered not finishing the story.
From the Publisher
"Vivid, powerful, disturbing." --Washington Post Book World "A stunner...King gets you to believe the unbelievable." --Detroit News "Unrelenting, convincing...awesome power...his best yet." --Pittsburgh Press
About the Author
Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine, on September 21, 1947, to Donald and Nellie Ruth King. King wrote his first short story before he was seven years old. As a teenager, he played on the football team and joined a rock band, but also had two of his short stories published. After graduating with a Bachelor's degree in English from the University of Maine at Orono in 1970, he married Tabitha Spruce, also a writer, in 1971, and began a career as a teacher. His spare time was spent in writing novels that were consistently rejected by publishers. King's first novel would never have been published if not for his wife. She removed the first few chapters from the garbage after King had thrown them away in frustration. Three months later, he received a $2,500 advance from Doubleday Publishing for the book that went on to sell a modest 13,000 hardcover copies. That book, Carrie, was about a girl with telekinetic powers who is tormented by bullies at school. She uses her power, in turn, to torment and eventually destroy her mean-spirited classmates. When United Artists released the film version in 1976, it was a critical and commercial success. The paperback version of the book, released after the movie, went on to sell more than two-and-a-half million copies. Many of King's other horror novels have been adapted into movies, including The Shining, Firestarter, Pet Semetary, Cujo, Misery, The Stand, and The Tommyknockers. Under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, King has written the books The Running Man, The Regulators, Thinner, The Long Walk, Roadwork, and Rage. Today, Stephen King is one of the world's most successful writers, with more than 100 million copies of his works in print. Many of his books have been translated into foreign languages, and he writes new books at a rate of about one per year. King and his wife have three children and live in the small town of Bangor, Maine, where many of his stories are set.
Mass Market Paperbound
416 Pages, 7.01 x 4.25 x 1.08 IN
February 9, 2000
New American Library
English
0451162072
9780451162076