Will Stephen King ever stop crafting terrifying tales? God, we hope not. During a recent chat with The Losers’ Club Podcast, the master of horror revealed that his new tale, Rattlesnakes, is actually a sequel to his classic rabid dog novel Cujo!
“I just wrote a long story called Rattlesnakes. And it involves, at one part, twins who are only four years old… falling into a rattlesnake pit. And the snakes get them. It’s a terrible scene.” King continues, “This novella that I’ve just written, Rattlesnakes… is a sequel to Cujo.”
While that’s all the details we know about the new tale, that’s enough for us to want to read it. While Cujo didn’t precisely set things up for a sequel, one thing the two stories do have in common is that young children are put in danger, which is every parent’s worst nightmare.
For those who don’t know, Cujo centers on a beloved Saint Bernard who became infected with Rabies, turning it into a beast hell-bent on killing everyone it comes in contact with. When a woman (Dee Wallace) and her young son arrive to drop off their car, Cujo sets his sights on the family in a vehicle that will no longer start.
If you haven’t seen the film adaptation of Cujo or if you want to re-watch it (and you should), you can watch it now on Hulu, VUDU, iTunes, Roku, and Netflix. You can check out the full interview on the podcast here.
King has just released another story, Finn, available exclusively on Scribd. The story is described as “Characteristically propulsive, wickedly funny, with twists both narrative and literal; Finn points straight to our current struggle to differentiate between farce and experience and asks: can 50,000,000 Elvis fans be wrong?” Read more about it here.
