num_pages: 698
description: Leland Gaunt opens a new shop in Castle Rock called Needful Things. Anyone who enters his store finds the object of his or her lifelong dreams and a prized baseball card, a healing amulet. 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. These practical jokes cascade out of control and soon the entire town is doing battle with itself. Only Sheriff Alan Pangborn suspects that Gaunt is behind the population's increasingly violent behavior.
language: English
title: Needful Things
titlecomplete: Needful Things
characters: Wilma Jerzyck, Norris Ridgewick, Henry Payton, Alan Pangborn, Slopey Dodd, Cora Rusk, Hugh Priest, Seaton Thomas, Polly Chalmers, Henry Beaufort, Sean Rusk, Leland Gaunt, Brian Rusk, Frank Jewett, Lester Pratt, Sally Ratcliffe, George T. Nelson, Netitia Cobb, Myrtle Keeton, Ace Merrill, Danforth Keeton
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Paranormal, Adult, Fantasy, Supernatural, Audiobook, Suspense
ratings_count: 244488
places: Castle Rock, Maine, Maine
publisher: Viking