Needful Things

Stephen King

Mar 2010 · Hachette UK

About this ebook

Now with a stunning new cover look, the ultimate storyteller Stephen King presents the classic bestseller about a shop where you can buy whatever you want - but it comes at a price.

There is a new shop in town. Run by a stranger.

Needful Things, the sign says. A name that causes some gossip and speculation among the good folks of Castle Rock, Maine, while they wait for opening day.

Eleven-year-old Brian Rusk is the first customer and he gets just what he wants: a very rare 1956 baseball card. Cyndi Rose is next. A Lalique vase. A perfect match for her living room décor.

There is something for everyone. And always at a price you can just about afford. The cash price that
is. Because there is another price. There always is when your heart's most secret desire is for sale . . .

Ratings and reviews

I read it once but still I want to buy it & read it twice it is devil but it is not different than human devil manipulate mind of human when we see same thing human doing around us so in a way writer pictured that human as devil we see every day around us this is how every fight start & destroy our peace I like it.

This is one of Kings' best novels. I rank it with The Green Mile, The Stand, and It. As usual, King absorbs you right into this world and it's beguiling shop. The characters are the people you already know in your town and although you hope for the best, you aren't really surprised that many of the town's characters fall prey to their own greed.

Take abit to get into, but still a good book by king as always. Seen the film as well. King is just 1 of the best writers there is in his field

About the author

STEPHEN KING is the author of more than seventy books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His crime thrillers featuring Holly Gibney include Mr Mercedes, winner of the Edgar Award for best novel, and The Outsider, both of which were adapted into successful TV series, as well as Finders Keepers, End of Watch and the title story from If It Bleeds. Many of his titles are the basis for major motion pictures including IT, Stand By Me (adapted from The Body) and The Shawshank Redemption, which is IMDb's top-rated movie of all time. King is the recipient of The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence 2022, the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.