“Once upon a time,” begins 
a novel about a psychotically angry dog called Cujo, “a monster came to the small town of Castle Rock, Maine.”
We expect the storyteller (Stephen King) to be referring here to Cujo, whose slavering muzzle and bared teeth we’ve just been looking at on the cover of the 1982, New American/Signet paperback edition, a book our 11 year-old self bought with his pocket money from the second-hand bookstore next to the video shop in the suburb of Benoni, South Africa. Continue reading “29. Monstrous Anger”