스티븐 킹의 중기 걸작. 고전적인 좀비 이야기를 '가족애'라는 소재와 결합시킨 장편소설이다. 1983년 발표 당시 「뉴욕타임스」 베스트셀러 1위를 차지했고, 「코스모폴리탄」, 「워싱턴 포스트」 로부터 '에드거 앨런 포를 뛰어넘는 최고의 공포 소설'이라는 평가를 받았다. <샤이닝>, <미저리>, <캐리>와 더불어 스티븐 킹의 대표작 중의 하나로 손꼽히는 작품.

Now a major motion picture! Stephen King's #1 New York Times bestseller is a "wild, powerful, disturbing" (The Washington Post Book World) classic about evil that exists far beyond the grave-among King's most iconic and frightening novels.

When Dr. Louis Creed takes a new job and moves his family to the idyllic rural town of Ludlow, Maine, this new beginning seems too good to be true. Despite Ludlow's tranquility, an undercurrent of danger exists here. Those trucks on the road outside the Creed's beautiful old home travel by just a little too quickly, for one thing...as is evidenced by the makeshift graveyard in the nearby woods where generations of children have buried their beloved pets. Then there are the warnings to Louis both real and from the depths of his nightmares that he should not venture beyond the borders of this little graveyard where another burial ground lures with seductive promises and ungodly temptations. A blood-chilling truth is hidden there-one more terrifying than death itself, and hideously more powerful. As Louis is about to discover for himself sometimes, dead is better...