The characters / Recurring character
Gage Creed
Gage Creed is recorded in 2 distinct storys.
Louis and Rachel's son, killed by a truck and returned from the burial ground. Identity is scoped to this novel unless a specific cross-work source connection is documented. The child Gage Creed is identified by name and the fatal truck collision on Route 15 in Ludlow, the same child and event depicted in Pet Sematary.
Also recorded as Gage William Creed.
Stories and supporting passages
Insomnia
Read the passage Spoilers · Story context
The sneaker of a little boy named Gage Creed, run down by a speeding tanker-truck on Route 15 in Ludlow. Rings and magazines; keychains and umbrellas; hats and glasses; rattles and radios.
The child Gage Creed is identified by name and the fatal truck collision on Route 15 in Ludlow, the same child and event depicted in Pet Sematary.
Pet Sematary
Read the passage Spoilers · Story context
Louis Creed might have harbored such thoughts if he had been thinking rationally following the funeral of his son, Gage William Creed, on the seventeenth of May, but any rational thought—or attempt at it—ceased at the funeral parlor, where a fistfight with his father-in-law (bad enough) resulted in an event even more terrible—a final bit of outrageous gothic melodrama which shattered …
Gage William Creed is the child's explicit full name.
Read the passage Spoilers · Story context
Too much. Gage Creed came in, dressed in his burial suit. Moss was growing on the suit’s shoulders and lapels. Moss had fouled his white shirt. His fine blond hair was caked with dirt. One eye had gone to the wall; it stared off into space with terrible concentration.
Louis and Rachel's son, killed by a truck and returned from the burial ground.