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Gary Pervier

Gary Pervier is recorded in 3 distinct stories.

Reveal identity notes · spoilers

Cujo and later Castle Rock histories consistently identify Pervier as Joe Camber’s drinking companion killed by the rabid dog. Joe's neighbor and drinking companion, later killed by Cujo. The unnamed man killed by the rabid dog down the road from Joe Camber is the existing source-reviewed Gary Pervier identity; the passage itself supplies no name.

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Stories and supporting passages

Cujo

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She surmised it was down to Gary Pervier's, where the drinking would start. She lay in bed and wondered if what she had done and what she had promised could ever be worth it.

Charity thinks Joe has gone drinking at Pervier’s.

Cujo ↗ (paid link) By Stephen King
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She surmised it was down to Gary Pervier's, where the drinking would start. She lay in bed and wondered if what she had done and what she had promised could ever be worth it. Tears tried to come and she drove them back.

Joe's neighbor and drinking companion, later killed by Cujo.

Cujo ↗ (paid link) By Stephen King

Needful Things

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… they haven’t forgotten the dog, either, the one that came down with rabies and killed Joe Camber and the old rummy down the road from him. The dog killed good old Sheriff George Bannerman, too. Alan Pangborn is doing that job these days, and he’s a good man, but he won’t never stack up to Big George in the eyes of the town. Wasn’t nothing ordinary about what …

The unnamed man killed by the rabid dog down the road from Joe Camber is the existing source-reviewed Gary Pervier identity; the passage itself supplies no name.

Needful Things ↗ (paid link) By Stephen King
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Two others, Gary Pervier and Joe Camber himself, had died just down the hill.

The narrative names Pervier and Joe among the dog’s victims.

Needful Things ↗ (paid link) By Stephen King

The Sun Dog

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… remembering Joe Camber’s Saint Bernard, Cujo—the one who had killed Joe and that old tosspot Gary Pervier and Big George Bannerman. The dog had gone rabid. It had trapped a woman and a young boy in their car up there at Camber’s place and after two or …

The narrator recalls Pervier with Joe and Bannerman as Cujo’s victims.

The Sun Dog ↗ (paid link) By Stephen King Collected in Four Past Midnight