Pet Sematary (children’s graveyard)

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Pet Sematary (children’s graveyard) is the eerie burial ground for children’s pets in Stephen King’s horror novel, where interring animals (and more) leads to their sinister resurrection.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf burial ground
cemetery
fictional location
adaptedIn Pet Sematary (1989 film)
surface form: film Pet Sematary (1989)

Pet Sematary (2019 film)
surface form: film Pet Sematary (2019)
appearsIn novel Pet Sematary
appearsInWorkBy Stephen King
associatedWith tragic events in the Creed family
associatedWithTheme death
grief
resurrection
the consequences of denying death
connectedTo ancient Mi’kmaq burial ground (in the story’s lore)
countryOfFictionalSetting United States of America
surface form: United States
createdByInFiction local children of Ludlow
firstAppearance Pet Sematary
surface form: novel Pet Sematary (1983)
genreContext horror fiction
hasAtmosphere eerie
foreboding
hasBoundary deadfall barrier
hasConsequence resurrected beings return changed and sinister
hasNameOrigin childlike misspelling of “pet cemetery”
hasSupernaturalProperty burials there can return the dead to life
inspiredRealWorld tourist interest at related filming and book locations
isNear Creed family home
highway where many pets are killed
locatedInFictionalSetting Ludlow, Maine NERFINISHED
markedBy crude headstones
homemade grave markers
medium literature
narrativeFunction gateway to darker supernatural forces
primaryUse burial place for children’s pets
symbolizes corruption of natural order
the dangerous allure of reversing death
targetOfWarningBy Jud Crandall
visitedByCharacter Ellie Creed
Jud Crandall
Louis Creed

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Pet Sematary adaptedInto Pet Sematary (children’s graveyard)
this entity surface form: Pet Sematary: Bloodlines
Pet Sematary containsFictionalPlace Pet Sematary (children’s graveyard)
Rachel Creed fictionalUniverse Pet Sematary (children’s graveyard)
this entity surface form: Pet Sematary universe
Ellie Creed associatedWith Pet Sematary (children’s graveyard)
this entity surface form: Pet Sematary (fictional pet cemetery)
Gage Creed fictionalUniverse Pet Sematary (children’s graveyard)
this entity surface form: Pet Sematary universe
Gage Creed associatedWith Pet Sematary (children’s graveyard)
this entity surface form: Pet Sematary (fictional pet cemetery)