History Literature / DoloresClaiborne

** The novel is explicitly connected by the solar eclipse and weird empathy to Gerald's Game.

* TotalEclipseOfThePlot: Dolores gets Joe to [[spoiler:fall into the well out the back of their house]] during the [[ShownTheirWork real life Maine eclipse]] of July 20, 1963.

** Joe St. George, Dolores's husband who [[spoiler:sexually molests their daughter Selena, hits Dolores and squanders some of his children's college savings.]]

* AnnoyingPatient: Vera Donovan gradually devolves from a strong-minded businesswoman to a feeble helpless old lady throughout the novel. It doesn't help that she [[{{Jerkass}} maliciously]] [[NobodyPoops craps the bed]] in order to make life harder for Dolores, her carer.

* AnnoyingPatient: Vera Donovan gradually devolves from a strong-minded businesswoman to a feeble helpless old lady throughout the novel. It doesn't help that she maliciously craps the bed in order to make life harder for Dolores, her carer.

* {{Jerkass}}: Vera Donovan, who in her old age intentionally soils herself in order to make life for Dolores harder.

* TotalEclipseOfThePlot: Dolores gets Joe to fall into the well out the back of their house during the [[ShownTheirWork real life Maine eclipse]] of July 20, 1963.

* TotalEclipseOfThePlot: Dolores gets Joe to fall into the well out the back of their house during the [[ShownTheirWork real life eclipse]] of July 20, 1963.

* ShoutOut: Dolores threatens to send Joe to [[Film/TheShawshankRedemption Shawshank Prison]] if he ever touches their daughter Selena again.

* ParentalIncest: [[spoiler:Joe, who sexually molests his fourteen year old daughter Selena over a number of months before Dolores finds out.]]

* DomesticAbuse: Joe, to Dolores but she soon [[spoiler:puts a stop to that.]]

* [[spoiler:Parental Incest]]: [[spoiler:Joe, who sexually molests his fourteen year old daughter Selena over a number of months before Dolores finds out.]]

* [[spoilerParental Incest]]: [[spoiler:Joe, who sexually molests his fourteen year old daughter Selena over a number of months before Dolores finds out.]]

** Joe St George, Dolores's husband who [[spoiler:sexually molests their daughter Selena, hits Dolores and squanders some of his children's college savings.]]

* ArcWords: ''Sometimes, being a bitch is all a woman has to hold onto.''

* AscendedExtra: Pascow has a much bigger role in the movie.
* ArcWords: "A man's heart is stonier, Louis."
** "Sometimes, dead is better."
* AdultFear: Losing a child.

The [[Film/DoloresClaiborne 1995 film adaptation]] starred KathyBates as Dolores, Judy Parfitt as Vera, Jennifer Jason Leigh as Selena and ChristopherPlummer as (unique to the film character) Detective John Mackey.

Pet Sematary is a 1992 psychological thriller novel by Creator/StephenKing. It went on to be the best selling novel of 1992.It was made into a [[Film/DoloresClaiborne 1995 film]].

Several months later Gage, who had just learned to walk, is run over by a speeding truck. Overcome with despair, Louis has Rachel and Ellie visit her parents again, not telling them his intentions. Louis exhumes his son's body and buries Gage at the burial ground. Gage returns as a [[CameBackWrong demonic shadow of his former self]], able to talk like an adult. Ellie has terryfing visions about that, which eventually convince Rachel to go back to Ludlow, [[spoiler: where she meets Gage...]] After learning that Gage [[spoiler: killed Jud and Rachel, Louis kills him with a morphine injection.]] After that, his mind is pushed into its final stage of insanity. Louis, now completely insane and having prematurely aged, burns down Jud Crandall's house, then carries [[spoiler: Rachel's body]] to the burial ground, saying that he "waited too long" with Gage but is confident that [[spoiler: Rachel]] will come back the same as before...

King has said his goal was to write a novel too scary to be read all the way through, and many critics said he came uncomfortably close to accomplishing it. It's still regarded by many as the scariest thing he's ever written.

Pet Sematary is a 1983 horror novel by Creator/StephenKing. It was nominated for a World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1984. It was later made into a film popular enough to warrant a 1992 sequel which is arguably [[{{Sequelitis}} mediocre.]]

Louis Creed, a doctor from Chicago, moves to a house near the small town of Ludlow, Maine with his wife Rachel, their two young children, Ellie and Gage, and Ellie's cat, Winston Churchill ("Church"). Their neighbor, an elderly man named Jud Crandall, warns Louis and Rachel about the highway that runs past their house; it is used by trucks from a nearby chemical plant that often pass by at high speeds. A few weeks after the Creeds move in, Jud takes the family on a walk in the woods behind their home. A well-tended path leads to a pet cemetery (misspelled "sematary") where the children of the town bury their deceased animals.

Louis has a traumatic experience as director of the University of Maine's campus health service when Victor Pascow, a student who is fatally injured after being struck by an automobile, addresses his dying words to Louis even though they have never met. On the night following Pascow's death, Louis is visited by the student's walking, conscious corpse, which leads him to the "sematary" and refers specifically to the "deadfall", a dangerous pile of tree and bush limbs that form a barrier at the back. Pascow warns Louis not to "go beyond, no matter how much you feel you need to."

In the novel Louis is forced to confront death at Halloween, when Jud's wife, Norma, suffers a near-fatal heart attack. Thanks to Louis's immediate attention, Norma recovers. In the [[MovieOfTheBook movie adaption]] Jud is single and the Creed's maid, Missy Dandridge, [[spoiler: commits suicide in their basement]] and the Creeds [[spoiler: help arrange her funeral]]. After Church is run over while the kids are visiting their grandparents with Rachel for Thanksgiving, Jud leads Louis beyond the deadfall to an ancient burial ground that was once used by the Micmacs, a Native American tribe. Following Jud's instructions, Louis buries the cat and constructs a cairn. The next afternoon, the cat returns home. However, while he used to be vibrant and lively, [[CameBackWrong he now acts ornery and "a little dead," in Louis's words.]]

The 1989 film adaptation starred Dale Midkiff as Louis, Fred Gwynne as Jud, Denise Crosby as Rachel and Miko Hughes as Gage. The 1992 sequel starred EdwardFurlong, Anthony Edwards and Clancy Brown.

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