Pet Sematary, quite evidently, touches upon one of the most basic of all archetypal taboos, and as such, warrants comparison to a staggering number of narrative treatments — ranging from such ancient accounts as those of Icarus and of Eve's fateful decision in the Garden — to the contemporary medical horror novels of Michael Crichton and Robin Cook. Certain of the premises which underlie Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818), a work which also, albeit from a radically different perspective, focuses upon reanimation of the dead, seem to have bearing on King's work, while the novel undoubtedly owes something to W. W. Jacobs's classic tale.....
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