Answer a few quick questions and this website will automatically write a story or blurb for you using your keywords. A new shop named needful things opens in the town of castle rock, maine, sparking the curiosity of its citizens. It is the first novel king wrote after his rehabilitation from drug and alcohol addiction. Stephen king states that needful things will be the last castle rock story. Needful things delivers on said expectations, no more, no less.
Though both the film and the book are less than successful with their respective stories, i think the concept of needful things is such a good one. Anyone who enters his store finds the object of his or her lifelong dreams and desires. The first part of this story billed a bit presumptuously as the last castle rock story is just king gleefully turning the crank, bringing the tension to an almost unbearable level before unleashing hell. Needful things was a big book, which made sense when you considered the enormous amount of plot not story crammed into it. The story is about a shopkeeper who runs his business by exchanging goods for money and mysterious deeds performed by the customer. Roman by king, stephen and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. The fictitious maine town has been the setting for a number of.
Needful things by stephen king novel read online free. Moreover, theres nothing to be done with the source material except. Needful things, stephen king leland gaunt opens a new shop in castle rock called needful things. He also happens to be one of my favorite storytellers, an author i. A simple concepta magical store where your darkest desires can be acquired, for a hidden and terrifying priceis. It has 100 more mystery writing prompts in addition to the ones on this list, plus hundreds of other master plots by genre, dialogue and character prompts, and much more. In addition to a token payment, gaunt requests that each person perform a little deed, usually a seemingly innocent prank played on someone else from town. Soon hell breaks loose in town with deaths, violence and riot and sheriff pangborn discovers that leland gaunt is the devil himself. Needful things by stephen king goodreads share book. All things considered, like the tommyknockers, needful things is an enjoyable book if you can choose to ignore its flaws, which abound, and which occur to some degree in a lot of kings stuff from this time period. Select from a variety of genres including romance, mystery or teen vampire. The last castle rock story by king, stephen and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Needful things is a 1991 horror novel by american author stephen king.
It is, in a sense, a black comedy, but you have to be a little sick to laugh. Stephen king is one of the most prolific authors in the world, with more than 50 books in print, and more coming out every year. It is a novel with a message, a novel with at least the glimmerings. The recent adaptation of kings book had a terrific box office run and the paperback is still riding high on the new york times best seller list, making it the perfect stranger things book for fans. He charges small amounts to the things but requests a practical joke for each of them against another inhabitant. Needful things is my least favourite king novel if you like reading a 700page book about pranks then it may be for you. A definitive ranking of every stephen king novel ever. A former castle rock sheriff, pangborn has appeared in the kingverse quite a few times, playing major roles in the dark half, needful things, and the short story the sun dog, and hes been. Needful things is the best stephen king movie in years.
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