Books like Needful Things
A new shop called Needful Things opens in Castle Rock, Maine, and its courtly owner, Leland Gaunt, sells each customer the thing they most desire for a small price and a little prank to play on a neighbour.
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Under the Dome
On a fine autumn morning an invisible barrier drops around Chester's Mill, Maine, cutting the town off from the world, and Dale Barbara, an Iraq veteran working as a short-order cook, finds himself up against Big Jim Rennie, the used-car dealer who means to run the place.
Salem's Lot
A writer moves to a quiet Maine town and discovers that the respectable residents are being turned into vampires, one invitation at a time.
Floating Dragon
A cloud of experimental gas leaks from a research plant over Hampstead, a wealthy Connecticut suburb, and the town's old darkness, which returns every few generations, wakes with it.
Hex
The people of Black Spring, a town in the Hudson Valley, live with a seventeenth-century witch whose eyes and mouth are sewn shut and who appears wherever she likes; they cannot stay away for long and must keep her secret, until some teenagers decide to film her.
The Auctioneer
In Harlowe, a farming town in New Hampshire, a charming newcomer named Perly Dunsmore starts holding weekly auctions for the police fund, and the townspeople are asked to give a little more each time.
Horns
A year after his girlfriend Merrin was raped and murdered and the town decided he did it, Ig Perrish wakes after a drunken night with horns growing from his head, and finds that people now confess their darkest wishes to him.
Camp Damascus
Rose Darling is a devout, cheerful teenager in Neverton, Montana, home of the most successful gay conversion camp in the country, and when she begins having terrifying visions no one can explain, she goes looking for what her church and her town have hidden.
Horrorstör
Strange damage keeps turning up in the mornings at the Cleveland branch of Orsk, a Scandinavian-style furniture superstore, so a few employees agree to spend a night shift in the showroom to find out why.
We Sold Our Souls
Kris Pulaski, once the guitarist of the heavy metal band Dürt Würk, works the night desk at a Pennsylvania motel, while the singer who broke up the band is a superstar about to start a farewell tour.
Songs in Ordinary Time
In the summer of 1960 in Atkinson, Vermont, Marie Fermoyle, divorced and raising three children on almost nothing, falls for Omar Duvall, a drifter with a sales pitch and a past.
In Evil Hour
In a small Colombian town under a military mayor, anonymous lampoons start appearing on doors overnight, exposing the residents' secrets, and one of them leads to a killing.
The Devil in Silver
Pepper, a big, hot-tempered moving man, is committed to New Hyde, a psychiatric hospital in Queens, for a seventy-two hour hold after a scuffle with police, and learns that something with a bull's head walks the ward at night.