Pet Sematary Resources
For any teacher, professor or instructor who wants to teach
Stephen King’s novel, Pet Sematary. If you
know of any handouts, worksheets, criticism, related readings or other
resources, please email me so I can add them. acbenett {at-symbol] umich
(dot/period] edu
Teacher Info
Pet Sematary Facts – from "Stephen King Books"
Pet Sematary - StephenKing.com
Pet Sematary Characters List 2
http://litsum.com/pet-sematary/ Cliff Notes-Style site 2
Fabrizi, Mark A. "Reading the Cool Stuff: Students Respond to Pet Sematary."
Reading Stephen King: Issues of Censorship, Student Choice, and
Popular Literature Ed. Brenda Miller Power,
Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, and Kelly Chandler. NCTE.
Teaching Death and Dying Education in the Public School - some good worksheets and handouts to use with the novel
General Stephen King Resources
Reviews
2L, Estelle. "Simetierre" Svoong: Summaries and Short Reviews. English translation - "Pet Sematary"
Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher. 'Pet Sematary' (review). New York Times.
Smith, Michael Marshall. “Michael Marshall Smith on Pet Sematary by Stephen King [1983].” Horror: Another 100 Best Books. Ed. by Stephen Jones & Kim Newman. Running Press. 2005. pp. 301-305.
Winter, Douglas
E. "Pet Sematary By
Stephen King"
Literary Criticism
Castricano, Jodey.
"'Darling,' it said: Making a Contract with the Dead." Cryptomimesis: The Gothic and Jacques Derrida's Ghost
Writing. McGill-Queen's Press. 2003.
* An examination of the intersection between the writing of Jacques Derrida and
the Gothic. Doesn't really illuminate much about Pet Sematary.
"The most successful articulation of this theme in Cryptomimesis is found in an astonishing interpretation of Steven King’s Pet Sematary. Castricano provides not so much a Derridean reading of King as a Kingian reading of Derrida. “In King’s novel,” Castricano argues, “the dead return not only because they were not properly buried but also because they represent, in Derridean terms, a certain remainder.”"
Corstorphine, Kevin. "'Sour Ground': Stephen King’s Pet Sematary and The Politics of Territory." The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies. Issue 1, October 2006.
Csetenyi, Korinna. “Bringing Back the Dead: Stephen King’s Pet Sematary.” Hungarian Society for the Study of English 9 (HUSSE 9) Conference – Jan. 2009.
Flint, Christina.
"Stephen
King: More than gore?" The Daily Collegian.
Heller, Terry. "Love
and Death in Stephen King's Pet Sematary." Department
of English--
* An analysis of Louis's motives for using the Micmac burial ground, and Jud's motives for telling Louis about it
Magistrale, Tony. “Stephen King’s Pet Sematary:
* Also in The Gothic World of Stephen King: Landscape of Nightmares
Magistrale, Tony. "
Magistrale, Tony. "The Shape Evil Takes:
Mustazza, Leonard. "Fear and Pity: Tragic Horror in
King's Pet Sematary."
The
Dark Descent: Essays Defining Stephen King's Horrorscape.
Ed. Tony
Nash, Jesse W. "Postmodern Gothic: Stephen King's Pet Sematary." Journal of Popular Culture. Vol. 30, No. 4, Spring, 1997. pp. 151–60
* Essay that examines whether Pet Sematary can be described as a Gothic novel
Quigley, Kev. "...sometimes, dead is better..." Charnel House: The Stephen King Site for the
Discerning Reader.
Reino, Joseph. "Impossible Cars and
Improbable Cats: In a Misspelled Cemetery." Stephen
King: The First Decade, Carrie to Pet Sematary.
Twayne
Publishers.
Schroeder,
Natalie. "'Oz the Gweat and Tewwible'
and 'The Other Side': The Theme of Death in Pet Sematary
and Jitterbug Perfume." The
Gothic World of Stephen King: Landscape of Nightmares. Ed.
Gary Hoppenstand and Ray B. Browne.
Strengell, Heidi. "Frankenstein's
Monster: Hubris and Death in Stephen King's Oeuvre." Department of English,
Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew. “Maybe It Shouldn’t Be a Party: Kids, Keds, and Death in Stephen King’s Stand By Me and Pet Sematary”. The Films of Stephen King: from Carrie to Secret Window. Ed. by Tony Magistrale. Palgrave Macmillan. 2008.
Winter, Douglas E. “Pet Sematary and the Paradox of Death” Literary Companion to Contemporary Authors - Stephen King. Ed. Karin Coddon. Greenhaven Press. Nov 2003.
Audiovisual Resources
Pet
Sematary (Special Collector's Edition) (1989) DVD
* Includes commentary by director
Mary Lambert, and three excellent extras on the making of the movie and the
story behind the story.
Pet Sematary screenplay (2 3) (in MicrosoftWord)
Fullcast abridged production of Pet Sematary by the BBC Audio CD Audio Cassette
Pet Sematary at the Internet Movie Database
Trivia for "Pet Sematary" (1989)
Biography - Stephen King: Fear, Fame and Fortune from A&E Biography
Related
The Death and Resurrection of Lazarus (John 11:1-44) 2
"The Monkey's Paw" – W.W. Jacobs (Lesson Plans and other resources)
"The Indian Burying Ground" - Philip Freneau 2
"The Wendigo" by Algernon Blackwood 2
"Lazarus" - Leonid N. Andreyev 2 3
“The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible” - L. Frank Baum (from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) 2 3 4 5 6
"Blitzkrieg Bop" lyrics (a.k.a. "Hey! Ho! Let's go!") – The Ramones 2 3
The Cat Came Back (nursery rhyme) - Harry S. Miller
Kübler-Ross model (a.k.a. The Five Stages of Grief )
American Indian
Burial Mounds
Mound Builders - Wikipedia entry
Michigan's
mysterious Indian mounds
The Mound
Builders from The History of
The Mound Builders by George Bryce
Mi'kmaq
Burial Ground -
Bregland, Renée L. The
National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects.
Wendigo
Wendigo - The North Woods of
Looking for the Windigo? - A
Great Resource for Wendigo studies.
Unlocking
the Myth - “The Windigo”
(Issue 6), by Becky Flesher
The Windigo – Pretty good
account of legend. With links.
Roosevelt's Wendigo Story written by Theodore Roosevelt.
Legion Magazine – “Beware The Windigo” by Steve Pitt
Wendigo FAQ
Two good Wendigo books:
* Windigo; An Anthology of Fact and Fantastic Fiction - edited by John Robert Colombo. 1982
* Windigo Psychosis; A Study of a Relationship between Belief and Behavior among
the Indians of
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