There are a number of ways it could go, especially when you remember that Cujo actually has quite a few loose ends that could be explored.Īt its core, Cujo is interesting because it's the first King novel (not counting the books he was secretly releasing as Richard Bachman early in his career) that doesn't deal with any major supernatural scares. Sadly, that's all the information we have about Rattlesnakes at this point, so we don't know exactly how it connects to Cujo, whether it's a more spiritual follow-up with similar circumstances to the original novel or a direct continuation of the story of some of its characters. “This novella that I’ve just written, Rattlesnakes… is actually a sequel to Cujo.” And it involves, at one part, twins who are only four years old… falling into a rattlesnake pit. “I just wrote a long story called Rattlesnakes. During the hourlong interview, which you can check out over on Bloody Disgusting, King offered a brief reference to a new story, then revealed its a follow-up to the legendary story of a mother and son terrorized by a rabid St.

In a new interview on The Losers' Club podcast this week, King revealed that another surprising follow-up is on the way, in the form of a sequel to his 1981 novel Cujo. To read Stephen King is to see constant connections, and find surprising follow-ups where you least expect them. Over the course of his lengthy career, the Master of Horror has written direct sequels to everything from The Shining to The Outsider, and has set many of his tales in the same shared universe, much of it revolving around the fictional Maine towns of Castle Rock and Derry. Stephen King is certainly no stranger to revisiting his old stories.

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