User blog comment:HumboldtLycanthrope/The Shining: King or Kubrick?/@comment-5632489-20150224131433/@comment-26030957-20150225022553



Right. That is because most of King's work is not horror at all, but dark fantasy. A few of his works are straight-up horror: Carrie, Salem's Lot, and of course, as you mentioned, Pet Sematary. But most of the others are dark fantasy with epic battles of good over evil where good always wins, usually with the help of some social misfit, like a minority or someone in a wheelchair. This is where the Shining becomes such an enigma. The story is so much in the horror genre, but then in the end he gives it his dark fantasy ending,

Pet Sematary is definitely one of my favorite of his works, as well. That and Salem's Lot. 

I think I would be horrified (pun intended) if King wrote a sequel to Pet Semetary, like Dr. Sleep it would probably just become so cheesy. Do you like Joe Hill?