- suspense, City and town life, Specialty stores, Good and evil
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.
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Classical in form, contemporary, grave and bleak.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Stephen King
- First published
- October 1, 1991
- Pages
- 698
- Publisher
- Albatros, Companhia Das Letras, Pocket Books
- Editions
- 67
- Language
- Dutch, Italian, tur, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9781101137963
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Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, and many have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. King has published 63 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, and five non-fiction books. He has also written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in book collections. King has received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and British Fantasy Society Awards. In 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to A
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