And she has this feeling that Cujo the dog knows something. King's earlier ''The Dead Zone.''ĭonna recalls that Cujo was also the name of one of the members of the Symbionese Liberation Army. In the closet of Tad's room, there's a monster who may not be entirely imaginary and who seems to have some connection with Frank Dodd, the psychopathic killer-policeman who erupted in Mr. Back in Maine, there's a fellowĭonna took briefly as a lover, who isn't reacting altogether sanely to her decision to end the affair. Near the start of the book, for example, there's a switch of scene to Iowa City, where a little girl suddenly appears to be vomiting vast amounts of blood. For one thing, he does it all so skillfully,īringing his Maine locale to life with pungent bucolic language and fleshing out his characters far beyond the apparent requirements of his story.įor another thing, he throws in certain plot perversities. King, whose more recent novels are ''The Stand,'' ''The Dead Zone'' and ''Firestarter,'' has thrown something extra into the usual mixture. The author's manipulations - instead of stimulating, I find these wearisome and depressing.īut Mr. Now, normally I hate this sort of exercise in terror: the feeling of claustrophobia and helplessness the exhausting knowledge that there are hundreds of pages to go, and the victims will not escape until nearly the last one the sense of dependency on The dog's muzzle looked as if it had been badly lathered with shaving cream that had been left to dry. ''Those red, bleary eyes stared into hers. ''And a moment later Cujo's foam-covered, twisted face popped up outside her window, only inches away, like a horror movie monster that has decided to give the audience the ultimate thrill by coming right out of the screen. Nobody knows that Donna and her boy are there. Tad Trenton, are trapped in a Ford Pinto that is stuck in the driveway of Cujo's house. A mother and her 4-year-old boy, Donna and

The members of the family that own Cujo are away or otherwise indisposed. Before you know it, we have the following situation. Pretty soon, Cujo is mad.īut things get complicated fast in Mr. Rabbit into the hole, he gets bitten by one of the rabid bats. Bernard named Cujo is chasing a rabbit in back of his owner's house, which happens to lie at the end of a dead-end road outside a small town in Maine.Ĭujo is a good and gentle animal, but what dog can resist a rabbit racing by? So Cujo chases the rabbit into a hole in the side of a meadow, which turns out to be the entrance to a small limestone cave full of rabid bats. VERYTHING begins so simply in Stephen King's latest novel, ''Cujo,'' perhaps the cruelest, most disturbing tale of horror AugCujo By Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Books of the Times

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