"I lost an arm on my last trip home." Whoa.
So to keep him safe and secure her existence in the modern day, she must endure existing in a time when her skin color makes her property. She realizes that she will be brought back repeatedly to save the life of the young troubled son of the plantation owner, who she realizes is her ancestor. It shines a light on what is possibly the most difficult and taboo topics in American history: slavery in the U.S.ĭana, a black woman living in 70's Los Angeles, is inexplicably snatched through time on her 26th birthday, and sent to a Southern plantation during the 1800's. It is one of the examples of great science fiction that goes beyond pure entertainment. Octavia Butler was one of the queens of sci-fi and Kindred is considered by many to be her masterpiece. Sometimes, it's used to explore important and difficult material and ideas about society, past experiences, as well as speculate on where we are headed in the future. Great science fiction does more than just entertain. It's a standout book out of many great ones from one of our best writers. And the final line of the novel (simple and inevitable but at the same time absolutely terrifying and depressing) sums up what makes this book so effective.
It goes to such depths of fear and sadness that King himself thinks it's his scariest novel and thought that he might have gone too far after writing it. It is rumored that deeper in the woods past the cemetery is an ancient burial ground that has more creepier purposes.Īside from being well-plotted, creepy and evocative, the novel is scary because it taps into basic and primal fears that many families have.
Louis Creed has recently moved his family to a small town and everything seems to be great despite the fact that the local highway has so many instances of killing pets, there is an animal cemetery near their home for all the roadkill victims. After reading the chapter where Louis first ventures onto the Native American burial ground on an eerie moonlit night, I closed the book and realized that I could confidently say that this was the scariest novel I had ever read.Īlthough some of it might have been the fact that I was reading it in such a prime environment, that vividly written sequence is one of the only times I truly got chills when reading. So, as to not disturb her with my constant sneezing, I spent most of the long late night out in her living room and reading Stephen King's Pet Sematary, in the light of one dim table lamp. "Sometimes, dead is better." One night in 2010 I was visiting my then long-distance fiancé in Alexandria, VA and could not sleep due to serious allergies and jetlag.
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