There is the advertising man Vic Trenton, whose business is in trouble and now also his marriage, due to the discovery of his wife Donna’s infidelity with a furniture stripper. And in many ways, this 1981 novel is one almost entirely made up of many subplots, all of them as engrossing as we expect from King. King’s Constant Readers had been introduced to his enduring small town of Castle Rock in the serial killer subplot of The Dead Zone two years previously but in Cujo he gives us a thorough tour of it. “It came to Castle Rock again in the summer of 1980.” Werewolf, vampire, ghoul, unnameable creature from the wastes. “The monster was gone, the monster was dead. A good man named John Smith uncovered his name by a kind of magic, but before he could be captured – perhaps it was just as well – Frank Dodd killed himself… “He was not a werewolf, vampire, ghoul, or unnameable creature from the enchanted forest or from the snowy wastes he was only a cop named Frank Dodd with mental and sexual problems. “ O nce upon a time, not so long ago, a monster came to the small town of Castle Rock, Maine…
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