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Literature 1983. Written by Stephen King.
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BOGUS BUSINESS BUREAU
1American Casket CompanyBBBIndustrial CompaniesManufacturing

American Casket Company
Louis Creed buys his son the American Casket Company's rosewood model casket, called Eternal Rest, lined with plushy pink silk because the funeral home was out of the ones with blue.

2Camp SunsetBBBYouth ServicesYouth Camps

Camp Sunset
Summer camp in Vermont that Rachel Creed attended as a child.

3Carstairs Street SchoolBBBEducationPrimary Schools

Carstairs Street School
Ellie's school back home that she mentions - she tells Rachel that they sang "Old MacDonald's" like they did at her old school.

4Chuggy Chuggy Choo ChooBBBToysToy Vehicles

Chuggy Chuggy Choo Choo
Gage's toy train that Louis throws at his daughter Ellie's cat Church.

5Cocoa BearsBBBFood ProductsBreakfast Cereal

Cocoa Bears
Gage's favorite breakfast cereal, which his father Louis eats on the morning of Gage's funeral. Tastes like dead boogers, according to Ellie.

6The Day We Planted GageBBBLiteratureBooks

The Day We Planted Gage
Internal joke Louis makes about what they should call the sign-in book from Gage's funeral.

7A Death in the FamilyBBBLiteratureBooks

A Death in the Family
Internal joke Louis makes about what they should call the sign-in book from Gage's funeral.

8Dr. George TardiffBBBHealthcareSurgeons

Dr. George Tardiff
Neurologist Dr. George Tardiff evaluated Gage at 9 months for hydrocephalus at Our Sisters of Charity Hospital.

9Dr. WaybridgeBBBHealthcareDoctors

Dr. Waybridge
Norma Crandall's doctor when she suffers a heart attack on Halloween night.

10The Duquesne Medical DigestBBBPeriodicalsMagazines

The Duquesne Medical Digest
Medical journal that Louis Creed reads, deciding to write a dissenting letter regarding a long article concerning dissolving sutures, proving the writer's main contentions were specious, his case examples self-serving, his research almost criminally sloppy, blowing the stupid fuck right off the map.

11Emporium GaloriumBBBRetailGift Shops

Emporium Galorium
Store in Bucksport, Maine that Jud mentions in his note to Louis the day after Thanksgiving.

12Eternal RestBBBGoodsMiscellaneous Products

Eternal Rest
Louis Creed buys his son the American Casket Company's rosewood model casket, called Eternal Rest, lined with plushy pink silk because the funeral home was out of the ones with blue.

13Ever-lockBBBGoodsHardware

Ever-lock
Sealant that Louis' Uncle Carl the undertaker had used on sealing vaults.

14Everett's Furniture MartBBBHome FurnishingFurniture Stores

Everett's Furniture Mart
Furniture store in Brewer.

15Fairmont Grammer SchoolBBBEducationPrimary Schools

Fairmont Grammer School
School near Pleasantview Cemetery, the cemetery where Louis Creed's son Gage is buried in Bangor.

16Funeral AutographsBBBLiteratureBooks

Funeral Autographs
Internal joke Louis makes about what they should call the sign-in book from Gage's funeral.

17Greenspan Funeral HomeBBBServicesFuneral Homes

Greenspan Funeral Home
Timmy Baterman's body was taken to Greenspan Funeral Home on Fern Street - it used to be across from where the New Franklin Laundry stands now.

18How I Just Missed Him at the Crucial Mom...BBBLiteratureBooks

How I Just Missed Him at the Crucial Moment
Book, Louis Creed's internal joke when he drinks beer after beer after his son Gage's funeral: How I Went to My Son's Funeral with a Hangover, author of How I Just Missed Him at the Crucial Moment and numerous other works.

19How I Went to My Son's Funeral with a Ha...BBBLiteratureBooks

How I Went to My Son's Funeral with a Hangover
Book, Louis Creed's internal joke when he drinks beer after beer after his son Gage's funeral: How I Went to My Son's Funeral with a Hangover, author of How I Just Missed Him at the Crucial Moment and numerous other works.

20My Death BookBBBLiteratureBooks

My Death Book
Internal joke Louis makes about what they should call the sign-in book from Gage's funeral.

21Napoli'sBBBDiningPizza Parlors

Napoli's
Pizzeria near Pleasantview Cemetery in Bangor, where Gage is buried.

22New Franklin LaundryBBBMaintenance ServicesLaundry Services

New Franklin Laundry
Timmy Baterman's body was taken to Greenspan Funeral Home on Fern Street - it used to be across from where the New Franklin Laundry stands now.

23North Ludlow Baptist ChurchBBBReligionChurches

North Ludlow Baptist Church
Local church in Ludlow visible from Prospect Hill.

24North Ludlow Methodist ChurchBBBReligionChurches

North Ludlow Methodist Church
Church in Ludlow, Maine, location of Norma Crandall's funeral.

25OrincoBBBIndustrial CompaniesChemical Companies

Orinco
Chemical fertilizer company, with trucks that run along Route 15, using up a lot of animals.

26Our Sisters of Charity HospitalBBBHealthcareHospitals

Our Sisters of Charity Hospital
Neurologist Dr. George Tardiff evaluated Gage at 9 months for hydrocephalus at Our Sisters of Charity Hospital.

27Pleasant View CemeteryBBBServicesCemeteries

Pleasant View Cemetery
Cemetery in Bangor where Timmy Baterman was buried in 1943, and Gage Creed in 1984. Both were dug up by their fathers, and re-buried in the Micmac burying ground.

28Quentin L. JolanderBBBPetsPet Services

Quentin L. Jolander
Local veterinarian that neuters the Creed family cat Church.

29Rob GrinnellBBBHealthcareDoctors

Rob Grinnell
Bangor doctor that Louis spots in the Howard Johnson motel dining room.

30Stephen HollowayBBBHealthcareDoctors

Stephen Holloway
Doctor, and father of Billy and Mandy from Jud and Norma's story about local kids that buried their dog in the Pet Sematary.

31Tony BentonBBBHealthcareDoctors

Tony Benton
Doctor that Louis worked with back in Chicago that had called Ellie "The Indian princess".

32Troutman's Treatment of WoundsBBBLiteratureTextbooks

Troutman's Treatment of Wounds
Textbook that Louis planned to utilize for his dissenting letter to The Duquesne Medical Digest regarding a long article concerning dissolving sutures.

33Watson's HardwareBBBRetailHardware Stores

Watson's Hardware
Louis Creed purchases a flashlight, pick, shovel, spade, rope, work gloves and a canvas tarpaulin at Watson's Hardware in Brewer that he will use later that night to dig up his son's body.

34York's Livery StableBBBPetsPet Services

York's Livery Stable
Four or five days after Timmy Baterman's body buried at Pleasantview Cemetery in Bangor, mailwoman Marjorie Washburn sees him walking up the road toward York's Livery Stable.

FICTITIOUS TIMELINE
35July 4, 1912Dates20th Century: 1st HalfEvents

July 4, 1912
Jud's friend Stanny B. Found dead in the road by two little kids.

36July 15, 1943Dates20th Century: 1st HalfEvents

July 15, 1943
Timmy Baterman shot down charging machine gun nest on the road to Rome, posthumously awarded a Silver Star for his bravery.

37July 17, 1943Dates20th Century: 1st HalfEvents

July 17, 1943
Timmy Baterman's body shipped home to Maine two days after being killed in the war.

38July 19, 1943Dates20th Century: 1st HalfEvents

July 19, 1943
Timmy Baterman's body passes through Limestone, Maine on its way home to Ludlow. While attempting to justify why Gage's trip to the Micmac burying ground wouldn't turn out the same as Timmy Baterman, this is the date that Louis remembers from Jud's story as the day that Timmy was shot - though Timmy was actually shot on the 15th.

39July 20, 1943Dates20th Century: 1st HalfEvents

July 20, 1943
Timmy Baterman's body put on Jud's friend Huey's mystery train.

40July 22, 1943Dates20th Century: 1st HalfEvents

July 22, 1943
Timmy Baterman's body buried at Pleasantview Cemetery in Bangor.

41July 25, 1943Dates20th Century: 1st HalfEvents

July 25, 1943
While attempting to justify why Gage's trip to the Micmac burying ground wouldn't turn out the same as Timmy Baterman, this is the date that Louis estimates that Timmy returned from the dead.

42July 30, 1943Dates20th Century: 1st HalfEvents

July 30, 1943
Jud and his friends confront Bill Baterman about his son Timmy, back from the dead and walking around town..

43August 1, 1943Dates20th Century: 1st HalfEvents

August 1, 1943
Fire at the Baterman house. Bill and his son Timmy both found dead, Timmy shot twice in the chest, Bill dead from a self-inflicted gun shot wound.

44March 1, 1965Dates20th Century: 60sEvents

March 1, 1965
Somebody's pet rabbit named Marta died, and was buried in the Pet Sematary in Ludlow Maine.

45April 14, 1965Dates20th Century: 60sEvents

April 14, 1965
Rachel's sister Zelda chokes to death on her bed.

46December 24, 1982Dates20th Century: 80sEvents

December 24, 1982
Christmas Eve/Christmas Day the year before the Creed family moved to Maine - Seemingly everything that Louis and Rachel had gotten for the kids had to assembled, and they were up until 4am putting everything together.

47December 25, 1982Dates20th Century: 80sEvents

December 25, 1982
Christmas Eve/Christmas Day the year before the Creed family moved to Maine - Seemingly everything that Louis and Rachel had gotten for the kids had to assembled, and they were up until 4am putting everything together.

48June 29, 1983Dates20th Century: 80sEvents

June 29, 1983
Louis Creed receives keys to his family's new house in Ludlow, Maine.

49August 1, 1983Dates20th Century: 80sEvents

August 1, 1983
The Creed family moves into their new home in Ludlow, Maine. Neighbor Jud Crandall warns Louis about the dangers of road Route 15 and the Orinco trucks that travel it.

50October 31, 1983Dates20th Century: 80sEvents

October 31, 1983
Halloween night. Ellie Creed dresses up as a witch. Norma Crandall suffers a heart attack.

51November 22, 1983Dates20th Century: 80sEvents

November 22, 1983
Two days before Thanksgiving. Ludlow, Maine gets 4 inches of snow.

52November 23, 1983Dates20th Century: 80sEvents

November 23, 1983
The day before Thanksgiving. The sky is clear and blue and cold. Louis Creed drives his family to Bangor International Airport for their flight to Chicago, where they will spend the holiday, back home with Rachel's parents.

53November 24, 1983Dates20th Century: 80sEvents

November 24, 1983
Thanksgiving Day. Jud Crandall finds Louis Creed's daughter Ellie's cat Church dead in his yard. Jud takes Louis out to the Micmac burying ground, where Louis buries Church.

54November 25, 1983Dates20th Century: 80sEvents

November 25, 1983
The day after Thanksgiving. Louis Creed lies to his daughter Ellie about not having seen her cat Church, after burying him in the Micmac burying ground the night before. Later that day, the previously dead cat returns to the Creed house.

55December 24, 1983 Dates20th Century: 80sEvents

December 24, 1983
Christmas Eve. Louis and Rachel put out gifts for the kids - a set of matchbox racers for Gage, Barbie & Ken dolls for Ellie, a Turn 'n' Go, an oversized trike, doll clothes, a play oven with a light bulb inside, other stuff. After assembling Ellie's Bat-cycle, they curl up on the couch and watch the fire.

56December 25, 1983Dates20th Century: 80sEvents

December 25, 1983
Christmas Day. Ellie Creed's faith in Santa clause restored Christmas morning by the footprints Louis leaves in the hearth. By mid afternoon, the Creed children decide that the boxes are more fun than the toys that came in them.

57December 31, 1983Dates20th Century: 80sEvents

December 31, 1983
New Year's Eve. Jud and Norma Crandall visit the Creed family, drinking Rachel's egg nog. Louis realizes that Norma is beginning to fail. It will be the last time that she was in their house.

58January 23, 1984Dates20th Century: 80sEvents

January 23, 1984
Louis returns to the university for the beginning of the spring semester.

59January 29, 1984Dates20th Century: 80sEvents

January 29, 1984
The warm spell breaks with a roar with the arrival of a blizzard, and a week of numbing subzero weather.

60March 24, 1984Dates20th Century: 80sEvents

March 24, 1984
Louis Creed and his son Gage fly a vulture kite in their neighbor Mrs. Vinton's field. The last really happy day of Louis Creed's life, the things that were to come poised above him like a killing sash weight still over seven weeks in the future. Unbeknownst to him, his son Gage has less than two months to live.

61May 14, 1984Dates20th Century: 80sEvents

May 14, 1984
Louis Creed's son Gage is killed crossing Route 15 by an Orinco truck while running away from his father. Narrator explicitly states the date of the funeral as May 17, adding that Gage's death was Saturday, three days before. Though May 14 was a Monday.

62May 17, 1984Dates20th Century: 80sEvents

May 17, 1984
Louis son Gage's funeral. Louis gets into a fist fight with his father-in-law.

63May 18, 1984Dates20th Century: 80sEvents

May 18, 1984
Gage buried in Pleasantview Cemetery in Bangor, followed by a funeral party at the Gage residence in Ludlow.

64May 19, 1984Dates20th Century: 80sEvents

May 19, 1984
Louis Creed pulls his son Gage's body out of his grave in Pleasantview Cemetery in Bangor around 2am. By 4am, he has re-buried Gage in the Micmac burying ground and arrived back home. A few hours later, Gage returns from the dead, killing Jud Crandall and Rachel Creed.

65May 20, 1984Dates20th Century: 80sEvents

May 20, 1984
After driving Rachel and Ellie to the Bangor airport so that they can fly back to Chicago with Rachel's parents, Louis Creed purchases a flashlight, pick, shovel, spade, rope, work gloves and a canvas tarpaulin at Watson's Hardware in Brewer before checking into a Howard Johnson's motel. At 11pm, he heads for Pleasantview Cemetery to dig up his son's body.

66May 21, 1984Dates20th Century: 80sEvents

May 21, 1984
Louis Creed is reunited with his son Gage, back from the dead. After discovering that Gage killed his neighbor Jud Crandall and wife Rachel, Louis kills Gage, burns down the Crandall house and buries Rachel's body in the Micmac burying ground.

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67Castle RockMapUrban AreasCities-U.S.

Castle Rock
City in Maine. There's a reference to the events of Cujo, which took place in Castle Rock.

68Dead Man's BogMapWaterBodies of Water

Dead Man's Bog
Body of water near the Micmac burying ground. While the Micmac called it Little God Swamp, Judd tells Louis that for traders called it Dead Man's Bog.

69DerryMapUrban AreasCities-U.S.

Derry
Town in Maine. Ludlow is south of Bangor and north of Derry.

70Fern StreetMapTransit RoutesStreets

Fern Street
Timmy Baterman's body was taken to Greenspan Funeral Home on Fern Street - it used to be across from where the New Franklin Laundry stands now.

71Hammond StreetMapTransit RoutesStreets

Hammond Street
Street near Pleasantview Cemetery, the cemetery where Louis Creed's son Gage is buried in Bangor.

72Hancock RoadMapTransit RoutesRoads

Hancock Road
Missus Stratton - one of the citizens that saw Timmy Baterman after he returned, had a little two-room house down where Pedersen road joins Hancock road.

73The Indian WoodsMapNatureForests

The Indian Woods
The woods beyond the Pet Sematary.

74Jerusalem's LotMapUrban AreasCities-U.S.

Jerusalem's Lot
Freeway exit as Rachel drives across Maine, heading back to Ludlow.

75Little God SwampMapWaterSwamps

Little God Swamp
Body of water near the Micmac burying ground. While the Micmac called it Little God Swamp, Judd tells Louis that for traders called it Dead Man's Bog.

76LudlowMapUrban AreasCities-U.S.

Ludlow
Setting. Town in Maine where doctor Louis Creed relocates his family.

77Mason StreetMapTransit RoutesStreets

Mason Street
Street near Pleasantview Cemetery, where Louis parks the night he digs up his son's body.

78Middle DriveMapTransit RoutesDrives

Middle Drive
Road in Ludlow, Maine near the Creed family's new house.

79The North Ludlow WoodsMapNatureForests

The North Ludlow Woods
Woods where the Pet Sematary is located.

80Orrington StreamMapWaterBodies of Water

Orrington Stream
Stream that Jud mentions when he's telling Louis about his land: The original grant on your land goes like this. From the great old maple which stands atop Quinceberry Ridge to the verge of Orrington Stream, thus runneth the tract from north until south. But the great old maple fell down in 1882, let's say, and was rotted to moss by the year 1900, and Orrington Stream silted up and turned to marsh in the ten years between the end of the Great War and the crash of the stock market.

81Pedersen RoadMapTransit RoutesRoads

Pedersen Road
Missus Stratton - one of the citizens that saw Timmy Baterman after he returned, had a little two-room house down where Pedersen road joins Hancock road.

82Pleasant StreetMapTransit RoutesStreets

Pleasant Street
Street near Pleasantview Cemetery, the cemetery where Louis Creed's son Gage is buried in Bangor.

83Prospect HillMapNatureHills

Prospect Hill
Hill near the Pet Sematary, where most of the entire town of Ludlow is visible.

84QuarkMapOuter SpacePlanets

Quark
Planet from Louis' internal joke: Lunch. Meeting for lunch. This seemed such an alien idea that Louis thought of the science fiction novels he had read as a teenager - novels by Robert A. Heinlein, Murray Leinster, Gordon R. Dickson. The natives here on Planet Quark have an odd custom when one of their children dies, Lieutenant Abelson: they "meet for lunch." I know how grotesque and barbaric that sounds but remember, is planet has not been terraformed yet.

85Quinceberry RidgeMapNatureNatural Areas

Quinceberry Ridge
Ridge that Jud mentions when he's telling Louis about his land: The original grant on your land goes like this. From the great old maple which stands atop Quinceberry Ridge to the verge of Orrington Stream, thus runneth the tract from north until south. But the great old maple fell down in 1882, let's say, and was rotted to moss by the year 1900, and Orrington Stream silted up and turned to marsh in the ten years between the end of the Great War and the crash of the stock market.

86Route 15MapTransit RoutesThoroughfares

Route 15
Highway near the Creed family's new house that uses up a lot of animals.

87Stackpole RoadMapTransit RoutesRoads

Stackpole Road
Road in Ludlow, Maine were Jud's friend Zack McGovern used to live, they guy that buried his prize bull Hanratty in the Micmac burrying ground back in 1967 or '68.

OTHER
88Candy stripers present at the clinic whe...OtherTriviaQuestions

Candy stripers present at the clinic when jogger Victor Pascow is brought in.
Jennifer and Connie
Judy and Carla
Jaclyn and Christina


89Ellie CreedOtherQuotesQuotes

Ellie Creed
Ellie Creed: I don't want Church to ever be dead. He's not God's cat. Let God have his own cat!

90Ellie CreedOtherQuotesQuotes

Ellie Creed
Ellie Creed: God can take it back if he wants to. He can do anything if he wants to.

91Gage Creed & Jud CrandallOtherQuotesQuotes

Gage Creed & Jud Crandall
Gage Creed: Hello Jud. I've come to send your rotten stinking old soul straight to hell. You fucked with me once. Did you think I wouldn't come back sooner or later and fuck with you?
Jud Crandall: Come on and get your pecker out then, whatever you are. We'll see who fucks with who.


92Gage Creed's middle name.OtherTriviaName Game

Gage Creed's middle name.
Louis
William
Stephen


93Jud's cigarette brand.OtherTriviaQuestions

Jud's cigarette brand.
Laramie 100s
Chesterfield kings
Morley Reds


94Jud's dog's name.OtherTriviaName Game-Animals

Jud's dog's name.
Spot
Smuckers
Torrance


95Jud's wife's name.OtherTriviaName Game

Jud's wife's name.
Norma
Nora
Nola


96Louis Creed OtherQuotesQuotes

Louis Creed
Louis Creed: I ran ten yards and there was his baseball cap and I ran twenty yards and there was one of his Star Wars sneakers, I ran forty yards and by then the truck had run off the road and the box had jackknifed in that field beyond the Ringers' farm.

97Louis Creed's middle name.OtherTriviaName Game

Louis Creed's middle name.
Albert
Alfred
Anthony


98The name of Jud's dog that died in 1910 ...OtherTriviaName Game-Animals

The name of Jud's dog that died in 1910 for the first time.
Spot
Spike
Butch


99The namesake of Louis Creed's daughter E...OtherTriviaName Game-Animals

The namesake of Louis Creed's daughter Ellie's cat Church?
Church Lake, Maine
Lord Randolph Churchill
Winston Churchill


100Narrator OtherQuotesQuotes

Narrator
Narrator: Louis was aware, uncomfortably so, that Ellie probably knew a hell of a lot more about Ronald McDonald and Spider-Man and the Burger King than she did about Moses, Jesus and Saint Paul.

101NarratorOtherQuotesQuotes

Narrator
Narrator: Lunch. Meeting for lunch. This seemed such an alien idea that Louis thought of the science fiction novels he had read as a teenager - novels by Robert A. Heinlein, Murray Leinster, Gordon R. Dickson. The natives here on Planet Quark have an odd custom when one of their children dies, Lieutenant Abelson: they "meet for lunch." I know how grotesque and barbaric that sounds but remember, is planet has not been terraformed yet.

102Rachel CreedOtherQuotesQuotes

Rachel Creed
Rachel Creed: There's nothing natural about death. You as a doctor should know that.

103Steve Masterton OtherQuotesQuotes

Steve Masterton
Steve Masterton: you sure? All work and no play make Jack a dull boy, you know.

104Untitled OtherThemesColor Out of Space


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105Victor PascowOtherQuotesQuotes

Victor Pascow
Victor Pascow: The soil of a man's heart is stonier, Louis. A man grows what he can, and tends it.

106Victor PascowOtherQuotesQuotes

Victor Pascow
Victor Pascow: The door must not be opened. Don't go beyond, no matter how much you feel you need to, doctor. The barrier was not made to be broken.

107Victor PascowOtherQuotesQuotes

Victor Pascow
Victor Pascow: Remember this - there is more power here than you know. It is old and always restless. Remember. I come as a friend. Pure destruction and the destruction of all you love is very near, doctor. Doctor, remember.

108What is the name of Rachel Creed's siste...OtherTriviaName Game

What is the name of Rachel Creed's sister that had spinal meningitis?
Zelda
Zuri
Zoe


109What type of kite do Louis and Gage fly ...OtherTriviaQuestions

What type of kite do Louis and Gage fly in Mrs. Vinton's field on the last really happy day of Louis Creed's life?
Vulture
Goblin
Octopus


110What year was Jud born?OtherTriviaNumbers Game

What year was Jud born?
1900
1921
1899


111Zack McGovern's prize bull's name that h...OtherTriviaName Game

Zack McGovern's prize bull's name that he buried in the Micmac burrying ground back in 1967 or '68.
Hanratty
Smuckers
Spot











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