The first printing of Cujo was 350,000 copies and it quickly became a bestseller.
Now we turn our attention to the most famed animal in horror history: Cujo! The Novel
A good director could probably create something pretty deranged from the book, but nothing is currently pending. Like many of the novels King published under his Richard Bachman pseudonym, Roadwork explores the darker parts of human nature in existential ways. The final nail in the coffin is that his house is scheduled to be paved over for highway construction. The novel follows a man who has lost his son and faces a disintegrating marriage. The other book, Roadwork, was published in 1981 as well and was King’s way of coping with his mother’s slow death from cancer. Yet the two King books that immediately precede Cujo do not have film adaptations at all. One is a non-fiction evaluation of the horror genre as it stood in 1981, Danse Macabre, which tried to answer a repeated question from fans: why do people like horror? Being an extended essay, it will likely never provide the foundation for a feature film. Cujo was published in 1981 and the film came out in 1983, an incredibly quick turnaround. At the height of Stephen King’s popularity, he would publish a book and a film studio would immediately snatch the rights up.
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