User blog comment:HumboldtLycanthrope/The Shining: King or Kubrick?/@comment-5632489-20150224131433/@comment-5632489-20150225014426

Welcome :) Yeah, I really tend to dislike it when horror writers make an ending feel good/the good guy triumphs in most cases (if the stuff I write isn't already an indication, haha) though of course it can be done well. It's just that it's horror, and a happy ending isn't a top priority in this genre. Especially in King's case, where all the events are leading up to this terrible horrible climax, but only end up with the heroes triumphing over the evil. That's another reason Pet Sematary was my favorite book of his (and possibly one of my favorite stories ever), the ending is so utterly bleak and hopeless, because that's what it's been building up to. A reviewer of this book on Goodreads put it in pretty good words (remembering as best as I can here): rereading the book is like watching a terrible accident about to unfold, knowing what's going to happen, but being drawn to the page anyway.

On the topic of Pet Sematary, does anyone remember the little daughter Louis and Rachel had, Ellie? I always wondered what happened to her after she got older. They just kind of mention she's hyperventilating out in Chicago and that's that. Would love to see a sequel centered around her.