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(1991)
Needful Things
New English Library early export edition
by Stephen King
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There was a new shop in town. Run by a stranger. Needful Things, the sign said. The oddest name. A name that caused some gossip and speculation among the good folks of Castle Rock, Maine, while they waited for opening day.
Eleven-year-old Brian Rusk was the first customer and he got just what he wanted, a very rare 1956 Sandy Koufax baseball card. Signed.
Cyndi Rose Martin was next. A lalique vase. A perfect match for her living room decor.
Something for everyone. "Something you really had to have. And always at a price you could just about afford. The cash price that is.
Because there was another price. There always is when your heart's most secret, true desire is for sale.
--back cover
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Needful Things
1993-09, France Loisirs
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Needful Things
1992, New English Library / Hodder and Stoughton
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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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