Misery - Stephen King

Paul Sheldon is a famous writer who has been made famous by his character Misery, a young girl who has stolen the hearts of Sheldon's devoted readers. However Paul grew to hate his Misery novels and so he kills her.

The novel opens with Paul in the care of his number one fan Annie Wilkes. She's eccentric, neurotic and quite frankly, insane. Paul had been in a car wreck while driving home from finishing his latest novel, a departure, drastic departure from his Misery series. Annie happened to find him trapped beneath his car on the side of the road and took it upon herself to rescue him. Upon realizing who he was, her all time favorite writer in the world, she took it upon herself to hold him hostage. When crazy Annie finds out what Paul has done to her beloved Misery she takes matters into her own hands to resurrect her from the dead. What follows is one of the most bone chilling accounts ever put to paper.

There are scenes within this novel that will outright horrify you. This isn't the type of scare one gets when reading about evil spirits or terrifying zombies. It is the type which will get you thoroughly surprised when reading about the scary side of human psychology. So if you want to be terrified this is the book for you.

The Shining---Stephen King

The King of Horror brings another book which makes you want to peer out from your blanket to see if there are any spooky strangers looming over you! Some people might not find it as scary as I did but it did make me keep my lights on before I went to sleep for an entire fortnight!!

The story begins with the Torrance family embarking on a month-long retreat into complete isolation when Jack Torrance signs on to be the winter custodian of the Overlook Hotel in Colorado. Jack takes some personal demons with him to a hotel full of malevolent, ghostly spirits. A recovering alcoholic who, in the last couple of years, lost his job and broke his little boy's arm in a state of drunken fury. He thinks the time alone with his wife and son will allow him to find peace.The only person really clued into the dreadful possibilities is his son Danny. Danny has "the shine," a gift which allows him to see and know things he cannot possibly know; it is a powerful gift which the Overlook jealously desires for itself. As the days pass, the Overlook exerts more and more of an influence on Jack, exploiting his weaknesses, increasing his paranoia and basically turning him into a murderous new tool at the hotel's disposal.

Even after 30 years after its publication The shining still remains one of the most popular works by King. Its vivid and gruesome descriptions about the horrors of the hotel is sure to make anyone grip the book a little bit tighter.

Stephen King's PET SEMATARY

Review for Pet Sematary

by Dolan (old).

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Doctor Louis Creed takes up a new position as head medic at the University of Maine. He moves his family away from the fume-choked dangers of Chicago to the rolling hills and meadows of Maine.The house seemed perfect with a huge field out the back for daughter Ellie and baby Gage to grow and play in.
Then their was the old guy across the street, Jud Crandall, who Louis became to know and think of him as a father. After settling in Crandall takes the Creed family a trip to the local Pet Sematary which is located deep in the woods behind the Creed house. A weird and suspicious looking place built by children with broken hearts. Its a this point that Louis notices the dead fall on the far end of the Pet Sematary which separated these woods from the Indian woods. It occurred to Louis that this dead fall seemed to "convenient..too artful, to perfect, for the work of nature."
Then when the University season starts and Louis has his first real day at work, a dying boy is brought to him. Victor Pascow had been run down by a truck and when Louis is momentarily alone with the victim Pascow says, " In the Pet Sematry, Its not the real sematary, The soil of a man's heart is stonier". That night Pascow reapears in a dream and Louis goes sleepwalking to the Pet Sematary. In this dream Pascow warns him that over that dead fall is an evil place with the ability to resurrect.

When Halloween comes Crandall's wife has a heart attack and Loius comes to the rescue as he uses his medical expertise to help the old women. This leaves Crandall saying "Louis, I owe you one".

Thanksgiving day comes and with the family away to the Chicago visiting relatives Louis is given the news that Louis's cat has been run down on the road outside. Its now that Crandall takes Louis beyond the Pet Sematary to bury his cat

The next day the cat comes back to life but its not the cat they once knew... The real horror comes when Louis decides to play God not once but twice, when its his son who is killed out on the road. And for this there is hell to pay. Pet Sematary is a disturbing novel, the kind of subversive, realistic horror that exemplifies great horror fiction. It's the story of a man who forgets he can't play god, that despite the miracles of science and the life-support systems that can prolong life, at best, he can only postpone the inevitable for a very short time.

But what if man could return the dead to life?

Submitted on July 16, 2003.

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