Four-year-old Tad Trenton has been having night terrors. Each night, a horrifying beast with glowing red eyes growls from within his closet that he will have him soon. Though his parents reassure Tad that no monsters can get him, they cannot explain why the closet door is found unlatched each morning. Nor can they keep their own adult fears, from a business crisis to infidelity, from threatening to tear their happy home apart.

Cujo is a two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard and the best friend that ten-year-old Brett Camber ever had. But when Cujo pursues a rabbit into a hole and gets bitten by a rabid bat, the once friendly dog is suddenly turned into a crazed monster. One fateful weekend, when Donna Trenton's husband is out of town, she drives her car to the Cambers's garage for repairs—only to be trapped with Tad in the sweltering car by the monstrous dog.

STEPHEN KING lives in Maine and Florida with his wife, Novelist Tabitha King. He has written more than forty books and two hundred short stories. He has won the World Fantasy Award, several Bram Stoker awards, and the O. Henry award for his story "The Man in the Black Suit," and he is the 2003 recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.