King’s first impulse was to tell her that the cat had wandered away. Shortly after they moved in, daughter Naomi’s cat, Smucky, was found dead on the side of the road when they returned from a trip to town. Among its residents: dogs, cats, birds, and a goat. A new neighbor warned the Kings to keep their pets and children away from this road, which had “used up a lot of animals.” In support of this claim, the Kings discovered a burial ground not far from the house, with “Pets Sematary” written on a sign in a childish hand. The heavy traffic included transports heading to and from a nearby chemical plant. He moved his family into a rented house on a major highway in Orrington. In 1978, Stephen King was invited to be writer in residence at the English department of his alma mater, the University of Maine at Orono.
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