Reading the Bachman Books doesn’t seem like much of priority of mine. I wouldn’t rule it out entirely, and I’m more likely to read them than volumes 5-7 of The Dark Tower.

Some of the other books reissued in the same batch as the “bad” Pet Sematary did the same thing as the bad PS, which was to show a character imagining the story with a “thought bubble,” to similarly strange pseudo-comic effect. Not sure what any of those were thinking. The ones I always liked the best were the mid-90s Signet versions, various colored spines and glowing imagery on the covers. My copies of Carrie, Christine and The Shining are all the Signet versions, though to be fair Carrie is one of the dumber ones. I think I like Four Past Midnight and Christine best.

https://www.reddit.com/r/stephenking/comments/1l53w3v/anyone_else_really_like_these_signet_paperback/

The original Carrie cover makes Carrie look pretty and dark-haired and well dressed. She is described as being chunky, pimply, pale-skinned and having hair that is colorless when wet. I guess Sissy Spacek wasn’t chunky or pimply either but at least she was pale.

The original Pet Sematary cover would have creeped me out seriously if I’d seen it as a kid. The first I recall seeing of any Stephen King cover was an old 80s cover of Cujo when I was about 9 in the West Ridge Mall book store in Topeka when I went to get my Super NES. The blood red color, the curdled font used for the title, and the weirdness of the word “Cujo” creeped me out, but I didn’t know what the book was even about yet, let alone that it was about something as dumb as a dog with rabies that might be possessed by a serial killer.