Needful Things

The Last Castle Rock Story

by Stephen King

Mass Market Paperback, 736 pages

English language

Published July 7, 1992 by Signet.

ISBN:: 978-0-451-17281-5
OCLC Number:: 946361518

(21 reviews)

A wonderful new store has opened in the little town of Castle Rock, Maine. Whatever your heart's secret desire—sexual pleasure, wealth, power or even more precious things—it's for sale. And even though every item has a nerve-shattering price, the owner is always ready to make a bargain.

In this chilling novel by one of the most potent imaginations of our time, evil is on a shopping spree and out to scare you witless... (back cover)

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Review of 'Needful Things' on 'Storygraph'

2 stars

I used to like this book, having read it shortly after it came out. But now, after a reread, I was getting impatient very early on. There is no real story (except for a very basic and literal "evil comes to town"), and practically the only thing that happens is that everybody is getting progressively more crazy. 450 of the novel's 600 pages are listless descriptions of people getting mad at each other for petty reasons. This gets old pretty soon, and the endless repetition of certain details to make sure every reader will get them doesn't help build up anticipation.