Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Needful Things
    Needful Things
    Needful Things
    Audiobook25 hours

    Needful Things

    Written by Stephen King

    Narrated by Stephen King

    4.5/5

    ()

    Switch to ebook

    About this audiobook

    Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine

    Master storyteller Stephen King presents the classic #1 New York Times bestseller about a mysterious store than can sell you whatever you desire—but not without exacting a terrible price in return.

    The town of Castle Rock, Maine has seen its fair share of oddities over the years, but nothing is as peculiar as the little curio shop that’s just opened for business here. Its mysterious proprietor, Leland Gaunt, seems to have something for everyone out on display at Needful Things…interesting items that run the gamut from worthless to priceless. Nothing has a price tag in this place, but everything is certainly for sale. The heart’s desire for any resident of Castle Rock can easily be found among the curiosities…in exchange for a little money and—at the specific request of Leland Gaunt—a whole lot of menace against their fellow neighbors. Everyone in town seems willing to make a deal at Needful Things, but the devil is in the details. And no one takes heed of the little sign hanging on the wall: Caveat emptor. In other words, let the buyer beware…
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateJan 1, 2016
    ISBN9781508217176
    Author

    Stephen King

    Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes the short story collection You Like It Darker, Holly, Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of 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 Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King. 

    Related authors

    Related to Needful Things

    Related audiobooks

    Thrillers For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      8 Best Stephen King Books That Will Have You Gripped

      Mar 14, 2021

      To say that readers love Stephen King is a huge understatement. The most recent count of his total sales came to a whopping 350 million and his affable online presence, no-nonsense attitude to transphobia and right-wing politics, and extremely genero

      5 min read

    • Article

      Review: Stephen King Modeled 'The Stand' On 'Lord Of The Rings.' TV Has Done It No Favors

      Dec 17, 2020

      As a story of a world-gutting flu pandemic, Stephen King's "The Stand," whose second, superior miniseries adaptation began Thursday on CBS All Access, could not be more timely. And as a story of good and evil facing off for the usual high stakes — a

      4 min read

    • Article

      The Horror Within

      Aug 29, 2020

      Stephen King’s supreme craftsmanship lies in his ability to allow the reader to build up the horror in her/ his mind instead of explicitly describing it. Most often, this horror lurks in the most mundane situations and in the most ordinary lives, unt

      1 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Needful Things

    4.5/5

    825 ratings44 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 5/5
      Sometimes we make our own horrors. I love when Steven reads his own work.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I really enjoy it! Specially that was read by Stephen King

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Great book. It was hard to put this book down, wanting to know what was going to happen next

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Great book 4.5 stars is what it deserves in my book but definitely a Steven king original and any king fans such as my self would enjoy this book

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Loved this book! I experienced it as an audio book. The only thing about the audiobook is that it had some sound effects hear and there that could get a bit annoying but not so much so I couldn’t enjoy the story.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I read this book as a kid when it first came out, and I loved it even more this time than I did back then, and having King narrating made it that much better. He is after all a storyteller first, and his reading gives you the sense you could sit around a wood stove or campfire listening to him tell tales all day and night.

      Like Salems Lot, you need to be patient and absorb the setup before things really get going, but it’s quite worth it. Go listen now..

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      The book overall was pretty enthralling. It has a bit of a lull in the middle, but makes up for it with a very intense last third. Stephen King is a wonderful narrator, but the recording is noticably outdated.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Story is good but the stupid circus music makes this audiobook hooooorible

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Transition music unnecessarily loud, but otherwise good, I liked it

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Some parts had bad audio quality overall good book if you liked the stranger this might be a good book for you

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Love this story. Sk did great
      Will listen again
      Surely

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Wonderful characters! Lots of suspense in the story. Never a dull moment!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      The movie is great to me and I’m sure the book is better. But for the life of me I will be never understand why, if you KNOW you have NO CHARACTER, PERSONALITY, EMOTION, etc., WHY on Beyoncé’s good green earth do you inSIST on narrating books and ruining them for the listener. UGH!!!!!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I now want to find the old movie to watch.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Good book but long . Ok ok ok ok

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      King, as always, brings it home! Even better, he narrates, giving you the flavor he wrote it with.
    • 5/5
      Amazing read. Kept me invested until the end. Love it.
    • 5/5
      Loved it!! Like I do everything King!! ? LOVE ❤️ his work
    • 5/5
      A wonderful story read by the author himself. He is a great storyteller .
    • 4/5
      The book is good, but I didn’t like the music bits. They were distracting.
    • 5/5
      Excellent!!! I Really enjoyed this book. Especially wiyh the writer reading iy
    • 4/5
      Good story with a bit of a weak ending for the final showdown. There are definitely some problematic parts for this 2020 listener, but overall it was good. The audiobook would be better without the sound effects.
    • 4/5
      Not exactly scary but a lot of supernatural elements and excitement. A good story too.
    • 5/5
      I'm Mr. Kings ? #1Fan Of Stephen King Novel's and ??? Can't Wait Till The Next Book and ??? Come Out I Read There Is 6 Movies? In The Works For 2021& Beyond, ℂ???... Thanks Audiobook Happy New Year❗2021.
    • 5/5
      The book is among my favorites from King, and hearing him read it was excellent in and of itself. Almost loses a star for the ridiculous subchapter midis, though!
    • 3/5
      Just too many characters to keep up with...when the shit hit the fan it did though
    • 3/5
      A nice read. Lengthy and confusing at times, but overall a decent story.
    • 4/5
      A great book, not the best I've read by King.
    • 5/5
      Stephen King at his finest. He draws you in with a tale that grows more horrifying as it's told, with an ending I never saw coming. With the writer as the narrator, the characters seem so real with King's own Maine accent. Absolutely loved this book. Top 5 of my favorite King books!
    • 4/5
      interesting, funny, entertaining. The best thing about it is the way Stephen King read it.