Church hunts for mice and birds, ripping them apart without eating them. The next afternoon, Church returns home the usually vibrant and lively cat now acts ornery and, in Louis's words, "a little dead". In the aftermath Jud tells Louis under no uncertain terms to say nothing about the events that had transpired. There, Louis buries the cat on Jud's instruction. But instead of stopping there, Jud leads Louis farther on to "the real cemetery": an ancient burial ground that was once used by the Miꞌkmaq Tribe. Sympathizing with Louis, Jud takes him to the "sematary", supposedly to bury Church. Rachel and the kids are visiting Rachel's parents in Chicago, but Louis frets over breaking the bad news to Ellie. Jud is grateful and decides to repay Louis after Church is run over outside his home around Thanksgiving. On Halloween, Jud's wife Norma suffers a near-fatal heart attack but makes a quick recovery thanks to Louis's help. Nevertheless, Louis dismisses the dream as the product of the stress he experienced during Pascow's death, coupled with his wife's lingering anxieties about the subject of death. Louis wakes up in bed the next morning, convinced it was, in fact, a dream-until he finds his feet and bedsheets covered with dried mud and pine needles. On the night following Pascow's death, Louis experiences what he believes is a very vivid dream in which he meets Pascow's ghost, who leads him to the deadfall at the back of the "sematary" and warns him not to go beyond there. Victor Pascow, a student who has been fatally injured in an automobile accident, addresses his dying words to Louis personally, even though the two men are strangers. Louis himself has a traumatic experience during the first week of classes. Louis empathizes with his wife and blames her parents, who left Rachel at home alone with her sister when she died, for her trauma. Rachel disapproves of discussing death, and she worries about how Ellie may be affected by what she saw at the "sematary." It is explained later that Rachel was traumatized by the early death of her sister, Zelda, from spinal meningitis-an issue that is brought up several times in flashbacks. The outing provokes a heated argument between Louis and Rachel the next day. A well-tended path leads to a pet cemetery (misspelled "sematary" on the sign), where the children of the town bury their deceased animals. A few weeks after the Creeds move in, Jud takes the family on a walk in the woods behind their home. Since Louis's father died when he was three, he sees Jud as a surrogate father. Jud and Louis quickly become close friends. He warns Louis and Rachel about the highway that runs past their house, which is frequented by speeding trucks. Their new neighbor, an elderly man named Jud Crandall, comes to help. From the moment they arrive, the family runs into trouble: Ellie hurts her knee, and Gage is stung by a bee. He moves to a large house near the small town of Ludlow with his wife Rachel, their two young children, Ellie and Gage, and Ellie's cat, Winston Churchill ("Church"). Louis Creed, a doctor from Chicago, is appointed director of the University of Maine's campus health service. In November 2013, PS Publishing released Pet Sematary in a limited 30th-anniversary edition. The novel was nominated for a World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1984, and adapted into two films: one in 1989 and another in 2019. Pet Sematary is a 1983 horror novel by American writer Stephen King.
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