I will argue that Pet Sematary and The Tommyknockers can fruitfully be read as bioconservative fables, thematic enactments of the kind of worst-case scenarios postulated by theorists such as Bill McKibben, Leon Kass, and Francis Fukuyama.

Dogs can hear this whistle, but for people it is inaudible.

To thee I came as her kind heart beyearned: …

He carried himself so insolently in the house, and out of the house, to all persons, that he became odious.