Stephen King Highway “Needful
Things”
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”Needful Things” is a horror novel by
Stephen King. According to the cover, it is "The Last Castle Rock
Story." However, the town later served as the setting for the short
story "It Grows on You," published in King's 1993 collection
Nightmares and Dreamscapes which, according to King, served as a
sort of epilogue to Needful Things.
N 38° 33.ABC
A = The publication date for
”Needful Things” was October
199(A).
B = John Merrill is the town's resident "bad
boy" and petty criminal. (B) (Convert the first letter of
the name to a number) was a notorious bully in high school (as
detailed in 'The Body') but left the town, becoming a drug dealer,
occasional cocaine user and gunrunner.
C = The number of pages in
”Needful Things” is
(C)90.
W 121° 13.DEF
D = The film adaptation of ”Needful
Things” has Don S. (D) (Convert the first
letter of the name to a number) portraying the Reverend Rose.
E = The ISBN # for ”Needful Things” is
978-0(E)70839537.
F = Danforth Keeton was one of the town's selectmen and thus
enjoyed a position of a little authority. He was a large man with a
brutal, fiery temper who constantly abused his wife, Myrtle, and
hated being called (F) (Convert the first letter of the name
to a number) to his face.
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