![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Light and surreal are hardly the words I’d choose to describe Needful Things to a new reader and I think there was clear miscommunication between the marketing department over at Viking and King himself over how to brand and sell the book. I told myself to keep it light and surreal that if I just kept in mind the Bakkers’ doghouse, which had been equipped with heaters and running water, I would be okay.” By the time I got home that night, I had decided to turn the Eighties into a small-town curio shop called Needful Things and see what happened. The final items up on the block had been honor, integrity, self-respect, and innocence. “It occurred to me that in the Eighties, everything had come with a price tag, that the decade quite literally was the sale of the century. ![]()
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