Cujo

A Horror Novel by Stephen King

Subgenres:

Small Town,
Psychological Thriller

Published 1981

Length 399 pages

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Animal horror where the family dog turns terrifying
Small town Maine settings with creeping dread
Domestic tension colliding with supernatural menace

From Little Stack

Cujo is a giant two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard. He’s little ten-year-old Brett’s best friend and a loyal pet to the Camber family. He was the perfect pet until he chases a rabbit into a cave, he gets bitten by a rabid bat and changes. When Donna stops by the house with her five-year-old son Tad, they face the monster Cujo has become.

They say never leave your dogs locked in a car in the heat of the summer because the heat can rise as much as fifty degrees more than the air outside in as little as an hour. Donna and Tad are about to find out exactly how terrible being trapped in that kind of heat can be.

As Featured in Summer Horror Books That Bring the Heat by Jena Brown

Publisher Description

The #1 New York Times bestseller, Cujo “hits the jugular” (The New York Times) with the story of a friendly Saint Bernard that is bitten by a bat. Get ready to meet the most hideous menace ever to terrorize the town of Castle Rock, Maine.

Outside a peaceful town in central Maine, a monster is waiting. Cujo is a two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard, the best friend Brett Camber has ever had. One day, Cujo chases a rabbit into a cave inhabited by sick bats and emerges as something new altogether.

Meanwhile, Vic and Donna Trenton, and their young son Tad, move to Maine. They are seeking peace and quiet, but life in this small town is not what it seems. As Tad tries 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 on the rocks, there is no way they can know that a monster, infinitely sinister, waits in the daylight.