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| Title: | Needful Things |
| Author: | Stephen King |
| Publisher: | Viking Press |
| 1st printing: | October, 1991 |
| ISBN: | ISBN 978-0-670-83953-7 |
| Page count: | 690 |
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Needful Things is an American full-length novel of the supernatural thriller genre. It was written by author Stephen King and first published in hardcover format by Viking Press in October, 1991.
Appearances[]
Featured characters
- Alan J. Pangborn
- Brian Rusk
- Danforth "Buster" Keeton, III
- Nettie Cobb
- Polly Chalmers
- Wilma Jerzyck
Supporting characters
- Andy Clutterbuck
- George Nelson
- Henry Beaufort
- Hugh Priest
- John "Ace" Merrill
- Myrtle Keeton
- Norris Ridgewick
- Peter Jerzyck
- William "Willie" Rose
Villains
- Leland Gaunt
Minor characters
- Cora Rusk
- Frank Jewett
- John LaPointe
- Lenore Potter
- Lester Pratt
- Myra Evans
- Sally Ratcliffe
- "Slopey" Dodd
Organizations
Races
Locations
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- Mellow Tiger Bar
- Needful Things
- You Sew and Sew
- California (Referenced only)
- New York (Referenced only)
- Ohio (Referenced only)
- Akron
- Junction City
Items
- 1956 Sandy Koufax Topps card
- Carriage
- Elvis Presley sunglasses
- Elvis Presley photograph
- Fox Tail
- Knife
- Magic charm
- Meat cleaver
- Pistols
- Shotgun
- Treasure map
Animals
- Tammy Faye
- Raider
Vocations
Miscellaneous
Notes & Trivia[]
- Needful Things was marketed as "The Last Castle Rock Story" on the cover.
- This is the first novel that Stephen King wrote after his drug and alcohol rehabilitation.
- Needful Things was adapted into a feature film in 1993 by director Fraser C. Heston and starred Max von Sydow, Ed Harris, Bonnie Bedelia and Amanda Plummer.
- This novel was also released in audio book format and read by Stephen King.
- The short story, "It Grows on You", originally published in Marshroots magazine in 1973 serves as an epilogue to this story.
- Brian Rusk is the first character to begin the circle of pranks that infect the town.
- The character of Alan Pangborn and the Mellow Tiger Bar both make appearances in the Castle Rock television series on Hulu.
- Reference is made to Johnny Smith in this novel, who is a psychic and the main character from the Stephen King novel The Dead Zone.
- Reference is made to Donna Trenton in this novel, who is the mother of Tad Trenton - both of whom were terrorized by a rabid St. Bernard in the novel Cujo.