If You Like ‘Pet Sematary’ Add These To Your TBR!
MBC is currently reading Fairy Tale by Stephen King for book club! The month of October is meant for something spooky, and Stephen King always delivers. His books have been adapted numerous times; some adaptations are good, and some are bad. His book Pet Sematary, which is deemed one of his best has been adapted once again for Paramount Plus.
Pet Sematary: Bloodlines is a prequel to the 2019 film. It’s surprising to see that there is a prequel without the source material from Stephen King. King has no producer or writing credit, so this is entirely up to interpretation for co-writers Lindsey Anderson Beer and Jeff Buhler. King has inspired many writers, and for his work to still be adapted today proves that he is one of the greatest of all time.
In 1969, a young Jud Crandall dreams of leaving his hometown of Ludlow, Maine. But he discovers sinister secrets buried within and is forced to confront a dark family history that will forever keep him connected to Ludlow. Banding together, Jud and his childhood friends must fight an ancient evil that has gripped Ludlow since its founding, and once unearthed has the power to destroy everything in its path.
If you’ve read Pet Sematary by Stephen King here are the five books we recommend!
Suppose you were an up-to-date young wife who moved into an old, and elegant New York apartment house with a rather strange past. Suppose that only after you became pregnant did you begin to suspect the building harboured a diabolically evil group of devil worshippers who had mastered the arts of black magic and witchcraft. Suppose that this satanic conspiracy set out to claim not only your husband but your baby. Well, that’s what happened to Rosemary…Or did it…?
The day after they moved in, Coraline went exploring…
In Coraline’s family’s new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close.
The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own.
Only it’s different.
At first, things seem marvellous in the other flat. Everything is perfect. But there’s another mother and another father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let go.
A second family has been massacred by the terrifying serial killer the press has christened “The Tooth Fairy.” Special Agent Jack Crawford turns to the one man who can help restart a failed investigation: Will Graham. Graham is the greatest profiler the FBI ever had, but the physical and mental scars of capturing Hannibal Lecter have caused Graham to go into early retirement. Now, Graham must turn to Lecter for help.
The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia.
To her parents’ despair, the doctors are unable to stop Marjorie’s descent int madness. As their stable home devolves into a house of horrors, they reluctantly turn to a local Catholic priest for help. Father Wanderly suggests an exorcism he believes the vulnerable teenager is the victim of demonic possession.
Victoria McQueen has a secret gift for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. On her Raleigh Tuff Burner bike, she makes her way to a rickety covered bridge that, within moments, takes her wherever she needs to go, whether it’s across Massachusetts or across the country.
Charles Talent Manx has a way with children. He likes to take them for rides in his 1938 Rolls Royce Wraith with the
NOS4A2 vanity plate. With his old car, he can slip right out of the everyday world, and onto the hidden roads that transport them to an astonishing — and terrifying — playground of amusement he calls “Christmasland.”
Have you read any of the books listed above? If you have, let us know which one is your favourite! If you have any recommendations drop them in the comments below.
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