Cujo
Cujo slept.
He lay on the verge of grass by the porch, his mangled snout on his fore-paws. His dreams were confused, lunatic things. It was dusk, and the sky was dark with wheeling, red-eyed bats. He leaped at them again and again, and each time he leaped he brought one down, teeth clamped on a leathery, twitching wing. But the bats kept biting his tender face with their sharp little rat-teeth. That was where the pain came from. That was where all the hurt came from. But he would kill them all. He would--
Cujo is a two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard, the beloved family pet of the Joe Cambers of Castle Rock, Maine, and the best friend ten-year-old Brett Camber has ever had. One day Cujo pursues a rabbit into a bolt-hole--a cave inhabited by some very sick bats. What happens to Cujo, and to those unlucky enough to be near him, makes for the most heart-squeezing novel Stephen King has yet written.
Vic Trenton, New York adman obsessed by the struggle to hand on to his one big account, his restive and not entirely faithful wife, Donna, and their four-year-old son, Tad, moved to Castle Rock seeking the peace of rural Maine. But life in this small town--evoked as vividly as a Winesburg or a Spoon River--is not what it seems. As Tad tries bravely to fend off the terror that comes to him at night from his bedroom closet, and as Vic and Donna face their own nightmare of a marriage suddenly on the rocks, there is no way they can know that a monster, infinitely sinister, waits in the daylight, and that the fateful currents of their lives will eddy closer and faster to the horrifying vortex that is Cujo.
Characters
| ?, Abby | Evelyn Chalmers's niece (she found her dead) |
| ?, Billy | Worked with Roscoe Fisher |
| ?, Brock | Brother of Marcy, had flu |
| ?, Lisa | Worked with Vic Trenton at Ad Worx |
| ?, Marcy | 4 year old girl who's mother thought she had thrown up blood which turned out to be the dye from Red Razberry Zinger cereal |
| ?, Rocky | Rob Martin called a waiter this at Mr Johnson's Restaurant |
| ?, Samantha | Donna Trenton's mother |
| Bannerman, George | Castle County sheriff, killed by Cujo when he tried to save Donna and Tad Trenton |
| Bannerman, Katrina | George Bannerman's daughter |
| Bannerman, Victoria | George Bannerman's wife |
| Beaulieu, Stringer (Frenchy) | George Meara had a postage delivery for him |
| Belasco, Lewis | Worked at Portland Machine |
| Bellamy, Billy | Featured in a Cerebral Palsy advert made by Vic Trenton and Roger Breakstone |
| Bergeron, Dave | Brett Camber's friend |
| Bernie Carbo | Steve Kemp's pet cat |
| Brady, Joan | Donna Trenton's friend who died in a car crash |
| Breakstone, Althea | Roger's wife |
| Breakstone, Roger | Vic Trenton's friend who worked at Ad Worx with him |
| Breakstone, Timothy | Roger and Althea's son who died a crib death when he was just 9 days old |
| Brooks, Gretchen | Holly and Jim Brooks's daughter |
| Brooks, Holly | Charity Camber's sister |
| Brooks, Jim | Holly's husband, a lawyer |
| Brooks, Jim Jr | Jim & Holly's son |
| Callahan, Vin | Mechanic in Conway |
| Camber, Brett | Joe's son and Cujo's owner |
| Camber, Charity | Joe's wife and Brett's mother |
| Camber, Joe | Mechanic who owned 7 Oakes Farm, on the outskirts of Castle Rock, where Donna and Tad were trapped in their car with Cujo slavering outside. Killed by Cujo |
| Chalmers, Evelyn (Aunt Evvie) | Oldest person in Castle Rock until she died at 93 |
| Crowell, Ray | Man who gave Cujo to Joe Camber as payment for a job |
| Cujo | The subject of the story, a gentle dog, who contracted rabies from a bat and attacked the car where Donna and Tad were trapped |
| Dimmesdale, Reverend | Mentioned by Donna Trenton in passing |
| Dinah | Trenton family's pet cat |
| Dobson, Stanley | Bullied Tad Trenton at Day camp |
| Dodd, Frank | A cop who committed multiple murders and then suicide |
| Dodd, Henrietta | Frank's mother who had a stroke and died |
| Donovan, Mr | Manager of Shop 'n Save, had his car worked on by Joe Camber |
| DuBay, Ronnie | Worked for Portland Machine |
| Dunbarger, Carol | Murdered by Frank Dodd in 1974 |
| Fisher, Roscoe | Police officer who used to be a partner of Frank Dodd |
| Fournier, Michael | Castle Rock Postmaster |
| Frechette, Alma | Waitress killed by Frank Dodd in 1970 |
| Freeman, Billy | Castle Rock Call newspaper delivery boy |
| Gehringer, Debbie | Tad Trenton's baby sitter |
| Gresham, Dr | Brett Cambers doctor |
| Harrington, Yancey | Played the Sharp Cereal Professor |
| Heebert, Arnold | Was the oldest person in Castle Rock until his death at 101 years old when he fell off the balcony and broke his neck at Castle Acres Nursing Home |
| Hendrasen, Mary Kate | Young girl killed by Frank Dodd in 1970 |
| Hewitt, Mr | Worked at Summers Marketing and Research |
| Hofnager, Randy | Kid with a speech impediment who went to day camp with Tad Trenton |
| Johnson, Mr | Owner of the restaurant in which Rob Martin, Roger Breakstone and Vic Trenton discussed the last Sharp Cereal Professor advert |
| Jones, Harry | Name on imaginary grave thought of by Donna Trenton |
| Kemp, Steve | Donna Trenton's lover and budding poet, who was a furniture stripper and refinisher in his own business "Village Stripper" |
| MacKenzie, Allison | Amway and Avon dealer |
| Magruder, Joe | Worked for Portland Machine |
| Marchant, Vin | Second oldest person in Castle Rock before Evelyn Chalmers died |
| Martin, Rob | President of Image Eye, the company that Ad Worx used |
| Masen, ? | Andy, Marty and Roberta Masen's mother |
| Masen, Andy | Detective that worked for the Maine Attorney General, and was looking for Donna Trenton |
| Masen, Marty | Andy Masen's young brother, killed in a car crash |
| Masen, Roberta | Andy Masen's sister |
| McNally, Lou (Attitude) | The Big G's weather reporter |
| Meara, Cathy | George Meara's wife |
| Meara, George | Castle Rock postman |
| Miller, Mr | Teacher who wanted Joe Camber to work on his Ford's transmission |
| Milliken, Freddy | John's brother |
| Milliken, John | Fred's brother, had a fight with neighbour Joe Camber |
| Milliken, Kim | Freddy's daughter |
| Moody, Cheryl | High School junior killed by Frank Dodd in 1971 |
| Mousam, John | Previous owner of Joe Camber's 7 Oaks Farm |
| Mr Clean | He was the cat in the cave with the bats that gave Cujo Rabies |
| Mrs Beasley | Cujo's mother owned by Ray Crowell |
| Neadeau, Tommy | Saw a deer near Moosuntic pond |
| Pervier, Gary | Joe Cambers nearest neighbour, an alcoholic born in 1924 and killed by Cujo |
| Petrie, Sally | Althea Breakstone's friend |
| Quentin, Dr | Castle Rock Doctor |
| Redding, Fred | Tad Trenton's playgroup friend |
| Ringgold, Etta | Killed by Frank Dodd in 1975 |
| Rusty | George Bannerman's Irish Setter |
| Sampson, Dwight | The first person Donna Rose kissed open mouthed |
| Seltzer, ? (Old Man) | Owner of a cow pond where Charity Camber and Holly Brooks swam when they were children |
| Sharp Cereal Professor | Played by Yancey Harrington in the adverts that sell Sharp Cereals |
| Sharp, Carroll | Owner of Sharp Cereals |
| Shouper, Mr | Worked at the Casco Bank |
| Simms, Richie | Owned a farm and Joe Camber was going to work on his International Harvester |
| Smith, John | A psychic who discovered the identity of Frank Dodd |
| Steigmeyer, Mr | Custodian of the building where Ad Worx is housed |
| Swallow, Adam | Name used by Steve Kemp when he called Ad Worx |
| Thompson, J Walter | Old boss of Roger Breakstone and Vic Trenton. Worked for the Ellison Agency |
| Thornton, Alva | Charity Camber's friend, farmer who lived on Maple Sugar Road |
| Thornton, Bessie | Alva's wife and great niece of Evvie Chalmers |
| Timmins, Red | Tried to kiss Holly Brooks as a child, lost his arm when his tractor fell over on him in August 1962 |
| Toothaker, Pauline | Killed by Frank Dodd in 1971 |
| Torgeson, Buddy | Joe Camber's alcoholic friend who worked at Castle Falls Esso station |
| Townsend, Hank | State Police Officer |
| Trenton (nee Rose), Donna | Trapped in her car along with Tad, her son, by Cujo |
| Trenton, Theodore (Tad) | Donna and Vic's 4 year old son who ended up dying in the car just before he was rescued |
| Trenton, Vic | Donna's husband and Tad's father, worked for Ad Worx |
| Welsh, Joanie | Donna Trenton's friend who had a girl the same age as Tad |
| Welsh, Mr | Joanie's husband |
| Whitney, J C | Parcel in Joe Cambers mailbox had this name in the return address |
| Willie | Brett Camber's new dog after Cujo died |
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