The characters / Recurring character
Tad Trenton
Tad Trenton is recorded in 3 distinct stories.
Reveal identity notes · spoilers
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. Donna and Vic's four-year-old son. 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.
Also recorded as Tadder, Theodore Trenton.
Stories and supporting passages
Cujo
Read the passage Spoilers · Story context
Especially with everyone gone. He got to work. And when the phone in the house rang a dozen or so times, he never heard it. Tad Trenton was in his room at midmorning, playing with his trucks.
Donna and Vic's four-year-old son.
Read the passage Spoilers · Story context
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.
Reviewed narrative excerpt depicts this character in the story.
Needful Things
Read the passage Spoilers · Story context
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.
Reviewed narrative excerpt refers to this character; this evidence establishes a mention.
Rattlesnakes
Read the passage Spoilers · Story context
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.
Reviewed narrative excerpt refers to this character; this evidence establishes a mention.