Needful Things
What you require
Needful Things is Stephen King's 1991 horror novel about a mysterious shop whose proprietor sells people their heart's desires at terrible cost.
The phrase has become shorthand for temptation that exacts a hidden price: He treated the casino like his own Needful Things.
The title plays on the idea that what we think we need may destroy us.
- essentialsIndispensable items or elements
- necessitiesWhat you cannot lack
- requirementsNecessary conditions for something
- desiresStrong wants or cravings
- Stephen KingBestselling horror fiction writer
Castle Rock · small town · devil · evil incarnate · bargain · shop · pawn shop · antiques · cursed · cursed objects · temptation · heart's desire · dark · possession · price · souls · cravings · desperate
Needful Thingsluxuries
Non-essential costly pleasures
frivolities · extras · superfluities · extravagances · indulgences
Needful Thingscastoffs
Abandoned possessions
refuse · discards · white elephants · detritus · flotsam
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