И все же некоторые неприятности у нас в Касл Рок не такие уж необычные. Сейчас объясню. Все до сих пор помнят Фрэнка Додда, регулировщика, который двенадцать лет назад спятил и стал убивать женщин; не забыли и собаку, которая взбесилась и до смерти искусала Джо Кеймбера и старого бродягу на дороге. Искусала она и нашего доброго старину шерифа, Джорджа Баннермана.

In Castle Rock they knew about Frank Dodd, the cop who went crazy and killed the women back in Sheriff Bannerman’s day, and they knew about Cujo, the Saint Bernard who had gone rabid out on Town Road #3, and they knew that the lakeside home of Thad Beaumont, novelist and local Famous Person, had burned to the ground during the summer of 1989, but they did not know the circumstances of that burning, or that Beaumont had been haunted by a man who was really not a man at all, but a creature for which there may be no name.