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* [[Obnoxious In-Laws]]: Rachel's father disliked Louis from the beginning, and even tried to bribe him (offering to pay his tuition through med school) if he breaks up with Rachel. Louis told him to take his checkbook and plug up his ass with it. Not exactly a promising first step toward good relations with the future in-laws.
* [[Oh, and X Dies]]: Two examples.
** "[Norma Crandall] had recovered nicely from her heart attack, and on that evening less than ten weeks before a cerebral accident would kill her, [Louis] thought that she looked less haggard and actually younger." This is a fairly tame example, of course -- since even before she was introduced, the shroud of natural death has hung over Norma, and she and those around her are quite comfortable with it. We know as readers that she'll die in the course of the story, probably peacefully before the horror begins, so [[Foreshadowing]] her death this baldly isn't a huge deal. It's nothing like the [[Wham! Line]] toward the end of Part One, during the kite flying scene...
** "And Gage, [[Mood Whiplash|who now had less than two months to live]], laughed shrilly and joyously." Later on in the very same page, King even explains that "marbles were really not the problem [i.e. the hazard that would soon take Gage's life], and chills were really not the problem, that a large Orinco truck was going to be the problem, that the road was going to be the problem..." A few pages and two months later, and Gage is dead.
* [[Orphaned Punchline]]: A joke is mentioned about a Jewish tailor who bought a parrot whose only line was "Ariel Sharon jerks off."
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* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: Steve Masterton, {{spoiler|literally seconds away from Louis when he's carrying Rachel's body to be buried}}, decides that whatever is going on in the Pet Sematary filled up his weirdness levels for the rest of his life and bolts away. By the time he gets to his apartment, [[Forgot the Call|he doesn't even remember going to the town in the first place]].
* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]
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* [[Spirit Advisor]]: In a way, Pascow, as he tries to warn Louis and later Ellie from beyond the grave.
* [[Swamps Are Evil]]: Especially when they are as lousy with spectral beings as Little God Swamp. On the first trip through, the swamp is generally creepy, but they don't witness anything too strange aside from a white opaque fog that covered the ground like "the world's lightest snowdrift." Jud tells Louis about some advice given him by the town drunk, Stanny Bouchard, who was the person who took Jud up to the Burying Ground for the first time. Stanny said you might see St. Elmo's Fire, what sailors called "foo-lights" and to just ignore it. You might hear voices, but "those are just the loons down south toward Prospect. The sound carries. It's funny." And most of all, do ''not'' speak to anything, should it speak to you. On Louis's second trip, though, Little God Swamp is wide awake and humming:
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