num_pages: 345
description: In the town of Castle Rock, Maine, a five-year-old boy called Tad Trenton has nightmares about the monster which he sees nightly watching him from the cupboard in his bedroom. His mother, Donna, says that it is just a pile of old blankets. Tad knows it is real; paralysed with fear he sees the burning eyes and smells its foetid breath. At last his father invents a charm, which they call the Monster Words, a spell to keep the evil at bay. But Tad is still afraid.Seven miles away, Brett Camber, the son of a garage proprietor, is reluctantly persuaded to go on holiday with his mother. But he is worried because his big, lovable St Bernard, Cujo, has been looking so sick and peculiar, and there hasn't been time to warn his father to look out for the dog. No one know the dog is rabid, that the madness has been eating at his brain and nervous system for days, driving him to the point when blood rage will blot out everything but the need to kill...
language: English
title: Cujo
titlecomplete: Cujo
characters: Frank Dodd, Roger Breakstone, Charity Camber, Gary Pervier, Brett Camber, Joe Camber, Cujo, Donna Trenton, Vic Trenton, Steve Kemp, Tad Trenton
genres: Fiction, Animals, Thriller, Horror, Adult, Novels, Dogs, Fantasy, Audiobook, Suspense
ratings_count: 274657
places: Castle Rock, Maine, Boston, Massachusetts, Stratford, Connecticut
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Fantasy Novel, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Balrog Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: British Fantasy Award
category: Best Novel (August Derlith Fantasy Award)
publisher: Macdonald & Co