Cujo
Stephen King
This book is for my brother, David,
who held my hand crossing West Broad Street,
and who taught me how to make skyhooks
out of old coathangers. The trick was so
damned good I just never stopped.
I love you, David.
-W. H. AUDEN, "Musee des Beaux Arts"
-FOLK SONG
-THE SHARP CEREAL PROFESSOR
ONCE UPON A TIME,
not so long ago, a monster came to the small town of Castle Rock, Maine. He killed. a waitress named Alma Frechette in
He was not 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. 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.