Despite metaphors being omnipresent in our everyday lives, their usage frequently goes unnoticed. This paper analyzes conceptual metaphors, a particular type of metaphor proposed by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson (1980), which entail understanding an abstract domain of experience in terms of a concrete domain of experience. What makes the creation of such metaphors possible is the existence of multiple correspondences between the two domains. These correspondences are also referred to as “mappings,” due to certain elements being mapped from the “source domain,” onto the “target domain”. Conceptual metaphors were retrieved from the novel Pet Sematary by Stephen King, grouped into structural, orientational, and ontological metaphors, and then compared to their Spanish and Croatian translations in order to see how each of the three cultures perceives and maps certain concepts. Following the main part of the paper, a discussion summarizing the similarities and differences in conceptualization and translation of the metaphors was included. It was found that orientational metaphors tend to be expressed differently in one or both translations, which frequently do not express the spatial connotation found in the original text. In the category of structural metaphors, various solutions were observed. Most similarities in conceptualization were found in metaphors where the target domains were time and marriage. Analyzing ontological metaphors, the container metaphors, metaphors with the source domain of weapons and the target domain of ideas were mostly present in both translations.