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 .