The characters / Recurring character

Joe Camber

Joe Camber is recorded in 2 distinct storys.

The Castle Rock man explicitly said to have been killed by his own dog. This identifies Cujo’s owner Joe Camber, whose attack by Cujo is directly narrated in Cujo.

Also recorded as Joe.

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Cujo

Appears in the story

Read the passage Spoilers · Story context

Joe Camber shrieked. He remembered Gary. He covered his throat with one hand and tried to grapple with Cujo with the other. Cujo backed off momentarily, snapping, his muzzle wrinkled back in a great humorless grin that showed teeth like a row of slightly yellowed fence spikes. Then he came again.

Cujo directly attacks Joe Camber, supporting the identifying owner-killed-by-his-dog retrospective in Mrs. Todd’s Shortcut.

Cujo ↗By Stephen King

Mrs. Todd’s Shortcut

Mentioned in the story

Read the passage Spoilers · Story context

But folks are still not done talking about Joe Camber, who got killed by his own dog. Well, it don’t matter. It’s just that they are different racecourses we run on. Summer people are trotters; us others that don’t put on ties to do our week’s work are just pacers.

The Castle Rock man explicitly said to have been killed by his own dog. This identifies Cujo’s owner Joe Camber, whose attack by Cujo is directly narrated in Cujo.

Mrs. Todd’s Shortcut ↗By Stephen KingCollected in Skeleton Crew