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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gban007" data-source="post: 9824787" data-attributes="member: 56488">Have now read Pet Semetary and Salems Lot.  Pet Semetary starts a bit slower, with events and tension building up to the climax, that is some respects ends abruptly with a bit of ambiguity.  Is a lot more about grief and what it can do to people, that about evil as such - the evil here feels more incidental to help drive the former, with I would argue no real antagonist, just people making poor but understandable decisions when grieving.I also felt sorry for the cat, with a question around whether it was evil as such, or just reacting to how treated.Salems Lot more of a typical horror story as such, a different spin on Dracula.  Also has some ideas that sre expanded on more with IT (e.g. children vs adult experience of and acceptance of the supernatural).  Ultimately i find the ending interesting in how much the protagonists achieve, highlighted by short story One More for the Road (included in version I have).   The version i have also included Jerusalems Lot, which just adds more questions if same place as in Salems Lot.Overall though I enjoyed both, Pet Semetary grew creepier as it went, while Salems Lot was a bit more action horror, and less creepy, especially once past certain point.IT still my favourite I think, with the Stand close behind (very different stories though), and one think I think i prefer with these two is that it goes straight into bad things happening, rather than the slower openings that Salems Lot and Pet Semetary have.</blockquote>

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