

''Those red, bleary eyes stared into hers. She could see his huge, heavy teeth,'' Mr. ''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.

A mother and her 4-year-old boy, Donna and Tad Trenton, are trapped in a Ford Pinto that is stuck in the driveway of Cujo's house.

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. When Cujo tries to follow the 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. Everything begins so simply in Stephen King's latest novel, ''Cujo,'' perhaps the cruelest, most disturbing tale of horror he's written yet.
