Title: Needful Things
First published: October 1, 1991
Description: 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](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL81620W).
Subjects: suspense, City and town life, Specialty stores, Good and evil, American Horror tales, Translations into Russian, Fiction, Horror, Horror fiction, Retail trade, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Castle Rock (Me. : Imaginary place), Castle Rock (Maine : Imaginary place), New York Times reviewed, Castle rock (me. : imaginary place), fiction, Fiction, horror, Gaunt, leland (fictitious character), fiction, Consumers, FICTION / Horror, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, FICTION / Thrillers / Supernatural, Maine, fiction, Gift shops -- Maine -- Fiction, Practical jokes -- Maine -- Fiction, Harassment -- Maine -- Fiction, Violence -- Maine -- Fiction, Police -- Maine -- Fiction, Boutiques de cadeaux -- Maine -- Romans, nouvelles, etc, Violence -- Maine -- Romans, nouvelles, etc, Gift shops, Harassment, Police, Practical jokes, Violence, Maine, Chang pian xiao shuo
Places: Maine, Castle Rock, You Sew and Sew, mei guo
People: Cujo, Garfield, Raider, Smokey, Tammy Faye, Felicia, Irvina, Sarah, Timmy (Too-tall), George Bannerman, Norville Bates, Henry Beaufort, Donna Beaulieu, Thaddeus Beaumont, Antonia Bissette, Ricky Bissonette, Mr. Bonsaint, Stephanie Bonsaint, Deke Bradford, John Bringham, Shelia Bringham, Phil Burgermeyer, Helen Burgermeyer, Charity Camber, Joe Camber, Jimmy Catlin, Evelyn Chalmers, Kelton Chalmers, Lorraine Chalmers, Newton Chalmers, Patricia Chalmers, Chris Chambers, Martin D. Chung, Andy Clutterbuck, Melissa Clutterbuck, Albion, Cobb, Netitia Cobb, Mr. Constantine, Nat Copeland, Dave Corson, Mike Corson, George Crompton, Harry Cross, Stanley Dawson, Kevin Delkey, Mrs. DeWeese, Frank Dodd, Mrs. Dodd, Slopey Dodd, Carl Dorfman, Peter Doyon, Rosalie Drake, Teddy Duchamp, Bobby Dugas, Lucille Dunham, Steve Edwards, Mr. Emerson, Chuck Evans, Mrs. Evans, myra Josephine Evans, Charlie Fortin, Donny Frankel, Everett Frankel Steve Frazier, David Friedman, Bill Fullerton, Timmy Gagnon, Homer Gamache, Scott Garson, Leland Gaunt, June Gavineaux, Albert Gendron, Henry Gendron, Yvette Gendron, Jay Hanlon, Norman Harper, Mrs. Haverhill, Don Hemphill, Wanda Hemphill, Miss Hendrie, Naomi Sarah Higgins, Mark Hopewell, Mike Horton, Sonny Jackett, Peter Michael Jerzyck, Wilma Wadlowski Jerzyk, Naomi Jessup, Frank M. Jewett, Deborah Johnsone, Bill Keeton, Danforth Keeton, Myrtle Keeton, Ronald Keeton, Tom Killingsworth, Gordon Lachance, John LaPointe, Shirley Laurence, Mona Lawless, Judy Libby, Henrietta Longman, Irene Lutjens, Bill MacFarland, Billy Marchant, Albert Martin, Cynthia Rose Martin, Nonie Martin, Erin McAvoy, John D. McDonald, Reba McEntire, Brion McGinley, Sandra McMillan, Fred Mellon, John Merrill, Reginald Marion Merrill, Sally Meyers, Barbara Miller, Len Miliken, Miss Miliken, Jillian Mislaburski, Ducky Morin, Trooper Morris, Rose Ellen Myers, Butch Neadeau, George T. Nelson, Father O'Neal, John Palin, Alan J. Pangborn, Annie Pangborn, Todd Pangborn, Lenny Partridge, Henry Payton, Naomi Sarah Peebles, Sam Peebles, Francine Pelletier, John L. Perlmutter, Gary Pervier, Howard Potter, Lenore Potter, Lester Ivanhoe Pratt, Joe Price, Hugh Albert Priest, Natalie Priest, Frieda Pulaski, Nancy Ramage, Sally Ratcliffe, Henry Ridgewick, Norris Ridgewick, Phil Ridgewick, Nan Roberts, William Rose, Meade Rossignoi, Fred Rubin, Brian Rusk, Cora Rusk, Sean Rusk, Henry Ryan, Harry Samuels, Bill Sayers, Dr. Scopes, Brian Seguin, Paul Sheehan, Irma Skillins, Johnny Smith, Ariadne St. Clare, George Stark, Alice Tanner, Vern Tessio, Seaton Thomas, Tim Tierney, Vic Tremayne, Donna Trenton, Theodore Trenton, Preston Tucker, William Tupper, Ray Van Allen, Darlene Vickery, Betsy Vigue, Eddie Warburton, Charles Whitman, Amanda Williams, Tansy Williams, Sandy Koufax
Time periods: xian dai