Rose Red is Stephen King’s mini-series that represents his most direct attempt at a haunted house story. In King’s nonfiction book on the horror genre, Danse Macabre, King gives high praise for Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House, and one gets the impression that King has been eager to embrace this subject matter for …
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Pet Sematary is the story of a doctor’s family that moves to Maine. Close to the property the family discovers a large pet cemetery, complete with makeshift headstones and eulogies to the deceased companions. The widower next door warns the family of the woods beyond the pet cemetery that in previous times contained an Indian …
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Cujo is the story of a rabid Saint Bernard named Cujothat goes on a killing spree. Most writers normallywould struggle to get enough material out of such a coarseplot to fi ll up a short story, but somehow King managedto produce a novel on this simple premise that was laterturned into a film. Like many …
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