A view of fearsome experiences : a comparative study in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Stephen king's pet sematary (pet cemetery)‎

Abstract EN

The research deals with the frightening events and experiences in the two novels, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, and Stephen King's Pet Sematary (Cemetery), to examine the similarities and differences of events, but with a different time frame, and the reasons that prompted both writers to write a frightening story inspired by imagination, visions and nightmares focus on what is known as the tragic flaw, resurrecting the dead and playing The role of the gods and crossing the red lines to revolve events in a frightening framework with anticipation, apprehension and a tragic end.

It harmonizes with the personal lives and experiences of Shelley and King on the one hand and with the elements and characteristics of Gothic literature in two different centuries.