“Sometimes, dead is better.” This ominous and flat-out blatant warning comes from one of my favorite Stephen King characters, Jud Crandall. It sets the tone of the novel, “Pet Sematary,”...

I have a strange compulsion whereby I am incapable of reading a sequel before the first novel in a series. So when I heard that Stephen King was publishing a sequel to his infamous novel The Shining, I...