One of the most terrifying books I've ever read is Stephen King's "Pet Sematary". I don't know what it was about that book (the movie wasn't scary at all), but it really got to me when I read it about twenty years ago.
This story in this morning's New York Daily News is a real-life Pet Sematary story. A cat was presumed dead and was buried. When they went to plant a flower next to her grave, they heard her meow.
Cue the scary music.
I don't care that the cat's name was Muffin. That doesn't soften the creepiness for me--it heightens it.
