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An edition of Needful Things (1900)

Needful Things

1st Pocket Books paperback edition (2)

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“There are two prices for this. Half…and half. One half is cash. The other is a deed. Do you understand?”

The town of Castle Rock, Maine has seen its fair share of oddities over the years, but nothing is a peculiar as the little curio shop that’s just opened for business. Its mysterious proprietor, Leland Gaunt, seems to have something for everyone out on display at Needful Things…interesting items that run the gamut from worthless to priceless. Nothing has a price tag in this place, but everything is certainly for sale. The heart’s desire for any resident of Castle Rock can easily be found among the curiosities…in exchange for a little money and—at the specific request of Leland Gaunt—a whole lot of menace against their fellow neighbors. Everyone in town seems willing to make a deal at Needful Things, but the devil is in the details. And no one takes heed of the little sign hanging on the wall: Caveat emptor. In other words, let the buyer beware…
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suspense, City and town life, Specialty stores, Good and evil, American Horror tales, Translations into Russian, Fiction, Horror, Horror fiction, Retail trade, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Castle Rock (Me. : Imaginary place), Castle Rock (Maine : Imaginary place), New York Times reviewed, Castle rock (me. : imaginary place), fiction, Fiction, horror, Gaunt, leland (fictitious character), fiction, Consumers, FICTION / Horror, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, FICTION / Thrillers / Supernatural, Maine, fiction, Gift shops -- Maine -- Fiction, Practical jokes -- Maine -- Fiction, Harassment -- Maine -- Fiction, Violence -- Maine -- Fiction, Police -- Maine -- Fiction, Boutiques de cadeaux -- Maine -- Romans, nouvelles, etc, Violence -- Maine -- Romans, nouvelles, etc, Gift shops, Harassment, Police, Practical jokes, Violence, Maine, Chang pian xiao shuo
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Cujo, Garfield, Raider, Smokey, Tammy Faye, Felicia, Irvina, Sarah, Timmy (Too-tall), George Bannerman, Norville Bates, Henry Beaufort, Donna Beaulieu, Thaddeus Beaumont, Antonia Bissette, Ricky Bissonette, Mr. Bonsaint, Stephanie Bonsaint, Deke Bradford, John Bringham, Shelia Bringham, Phil Burgermeyer, Helen Burgermeyer, Charity Camber, Joe Camber, Jimmy Catlin, Evelyn Chalmers, Kelton Chalmers, Lorraine Chalmers, Newton Chalmers, Patricia Chalmers, Chris Chambers, Martin D. Chung, Andy Clutterbuck, Melissa Clutterbuck, Albion, Cobb, Netitia Cobb, Mr. Constantine, Nat Copeland, Dave Corson, Mike Corson, George Crompton, Harry Cross, Stanley Dawson, Kevin Delkey, Mrs. DeWeese, Frank Dodd, Mrs. Dodd, Slopey Dodd, Carl Dorfman, Peter Doyon, Rosalie Drake, Teddy Duchamp, Bobby Dugas, Lucille Dunham, Steve Edwards, Mr. Emerson, Chuck Evans, Mrs. Evans, myra Josephine Evans, Charlie Fortin, Donny Frankel, Everett Frankel Steve Frazier, David Friedman, Bill Fullerton, Timmy Gagnon, Homer Gamache, Scott Garson, Leland Gaunt, June Gavineaux, Albert Gendron, Henry Gendron, Yvette Gendron, Jay Hanlon, Norman Harper, Mrs. Haverhill, Don Hemphill, Wanda Hemphill, Miss Hendrie, Naomi Sarah Higgins, Mark Hopewell, Mike Horton, Sonny Jackett, Peter Michael Jerzyck, Wilma Wadlowski Jerzyk, Naomi Jessup, Frank M. Jewett, Deborah Johnsone, Bill Keeton, Danforth Keeton, Myrtle Keeton, Ronald Keeton, Tom Killingsworth, Gordon Lachance, John LaPointe, Shirley Laurence, Mona Lawless, Judy Libby, Henrietta Longman, Irene Lutjens, Bill MacFarland, Billy Marchant, Albert Martin, Cynthia Rose Martin, Nonie Martin, Erin McAvoy, John D. McDonald, Reba McEntire, Brion McGinley, Sandra McMillan, Fred Mellon, John Merrill, Reginald Marion Merrill, Sally Meyers, Barbara Miller, Len Miliken, Miss Miliken, Jillian Mislaburski, Ducky Morin, Trooper Morris, Rose Ellen Myers, Butch Neadeau, George T. Nelson, Father O'Neal, John Palin, Alan J. Pangborn, Annie Pangborn, Todd Pangborn, Lenny Partridge, Henry Payton, Naomi Sarah Peebles, Sam Peebles, Francine Pelletier, John L. Perlmutter, Gary Pervier, Howard Potter, Lenore Potter, Lester Ivanhoe Pratt, Joe Price, Hugh Albert Priest, Natalie Priest, Frieda Pulaski, Nancy Ramage, Sally Ratcliffe, Henry Ridgewick, Norris Ridgewick, Phil Ridgewick, Nan Roberts, William Rose, Meade Rossignoi, Fred Rubin, Brian Rusk, Cora Rusk, Sean Rusk, Henry Ryan, Harry Samuels, Bill Sayers, Dr. Scopes, Brian Seguin, Paul Sheehan, Irma Skillins, Johnny Smith, Ariadne St. Clare, George Stark, Alice Tanner, Vern Tessio, Seaton Thomas, Tim Tierney, Vic Tremayne, Donna Trenton, Theodore Trenton, Preston Tucker, William Tupper, Ray Van Allen, Darlene Vickery, Betsy Vigue, Eddie Warburton, Charles Whitman, Amanda Williams, Tansy Williams, Sandy Koufax
Places
Maine, Castle Rock, You Sew and Sew, mei guo
Times
xian dai

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Sklepik z marzeniami
2018, Albatros
in Polish
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Needful Things
2016-05, Pocket Books
Mass Market Paperback in English - 1st Pocket Books paperback edition (2)
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Sklepik z marzeniami
2009, Albatros
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Needful Things
1993, BCA
in English
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Needful Things
1993, Signet
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Needful Things
1992, BCA
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Needful Things
1992, BCA
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Needful Things
1992, BCA
in English
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Needful Things
1992, BCA
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Needful Things
1992, BCA
in English
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Needful Things
1992-07, Signet
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Copyright Date
1992

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Mass Market Paperback
Pagination
943
Number of pages
943

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OL31445084M
Internet Archive
needfulthingsstephenking
ISBN 10
1501143786
ISBN 13
9781501143786
OCLC/WorldCat
951229378
Amazon ID (ASIN)
1501143786
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Needful Things is a 1991 horror novel by American author Stephen King. It is the first novel King wrote after his rehabilitation from drug and alcohol addiction. It was made into a film of the same name in 1993 which was directed by Fraser C. Heston. The story focuses on a shop that sells collectibles and antiques, managed by Leland Gaunt, a new arrival to the town of Castle Rock, Maine, the setting of many King stories. Gaunt often asks customers to perform a prank or mysterious deed in exchange for the item they are drawn to. As time goes by, the many deeds and pranks lead to increasing aggression among the townspeople, as well as chaos and death. A protagonist of the book is Alan Pangborn, previously seen in Stephen King's novel The Dark Half.

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