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Tad Trenton

Tad Trenton is recorded in 3 distinct storys.

Cujo introduces Tad as the Trenton child. Needful Things and Rattlesnakes explicitly recall his death in the hot car during the rabid Saint Bernard attack.

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Cujo

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Except that the monster never dies. Werewolf, vampire, ghoul, unnameable creature from the wastes. The monster never dies. It came to Castle Rock again in the summer of 1980. Tad Trenton, four years old, awoke one morning not long after midnight in May of that year, needing to go to the bathroom.

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Cujo ↗By Stephen King

Needful Things

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Suddenly she seemed to hear a low, purring growl from the deep shadows of the barn, as if the rabid Saint Bernard which had killed Big George Bannerman and caused the death of Tad Trenton were still here, back from the dead and meaner than ever.

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Needful Things ↗By Stephen King

Rattlesnakes

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Nothing. “If you’re there, kiddo, I could use a little help.” But he wasn’t a kiddo, not anymore. Four decades had passed since Tad Trenton died in that hot car with the rabid St. Bernard patrolling the dooryard of a farmhouse as deserted as the north end of Rattlesnake Key.

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Rattlesnakes ↗By Stephen KingCollected in You Like It Darker