I distantly remember reading Pet Sematary the first time. It was the 3rd book of Stephen King's that I'd read, and by then I was well on my way to being a fan for life. What I remember is being being immersed in its pages and enthralled by the story. So now, coming back to it once again after so many years, I wondered if those memories would hold up. Would it scare me even just a little? Hell yes to all of it. 
 Stephen King is one of a few writers who can take a premise that sounds ridiculously absurd and make an insanely terrific story out of it. He doesn't simply lay out a plot. What I mean by this is that his stories are not a straight line to an ending. They meander with subplot and with that there comes depth. An example is the history of Jud Crandall and the burial ground in Pet Sematary, or the love that Louis Creed has for his family. Background is added, so reading the book is like looking at a photograph. 
 In Pet Sematary, it is this background depth that creates the present suspense. You just know that something is coming out of those woods, and you are a little bit scared because you've come to care for the characters. It's not that this one scares you with outright terror. Sematary gets you with tension just under the surface. It gets you with sadness, grief and the "what if". 
 King has said that of all his books, Pet Sematary frightens him the most. When he wrote the book, his children were right about the same age as Louis Creed's kids, so the potential of the story hit pretty close to home. I realize that this review is not so much an in-depth look at Pet Sematary as it is a small homage to SK overall. It's my way of saying that I loved this book and how it fits in his collection. After re-reading, I believe I like this book all the more. The ending may not be my favorite of King's, but it was like revisiting an old (yet scary) friend.