Then the man said, “Down, Gonzo!”, whacking his dog on the rump, and it yelped and sat down, and he then looked up at King and said, “Gonzo never done that before. He don’t bite.” So King reached out to pet the dog, and in response, it lunged at him. King retreated, wishing he wasn’t on his bike, when a man came out after the dog, saying, “Don’t worry. As the bike died just as he made it, a Saint Bernard suddenly emerged from the shadows of the barn, snarling at him. In the spring of 1977, Stephen King took his motorcycle to a mechanic who lived in the middle of nowhere. So what inspired King to make his animal antagonist man’s best friend?
But how did Stephen King come up with such an idea? While a story where an animal tries to kill the main characters is nothing new, the animal in question is always wild, say, a bear, a wolf, a shark, a lion, even a dinosaur. About a friendly Saint Bernard that turns rabid and starts brutally slaughtering the citizens of Castle Rock, Maine, Cujo is by far one of Stephen King’s most recognizable characters, in my opinion, right up there with Jack Torrence and Pennywise the Dancing Clown. While far from one of Stephen King’s scariest books, Cujo, published in 1981, is certainly one of his most popular.
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