num_pages: 790
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 desires: 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: Frank Jewett, Lester Pratt, Polly Chalmers, Henry Payton, Norris Ridgewick, Henry Beaufort, Cora Rusk, Alan Pangborn, Netitia Cobb, Danforth Keeton, Slopey Dodd, Wilma Jerzyck, Sean Rusk, Hugh Priest, Brian Rusk, Myrtle Keeton, Leland Gaunt, George T. Nelson, Sally Ratcliffe, Ace Merrill, Seaton Thomas
genres: Paranormal, Fantasy, Mystery, Adult, Suspense, Thriller, Supernatural, Audiobook, Fiction, Horror
ratings_count: 244420
places: Maine, Castle Rock, Maine
publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd