The extended version of Stephen King's Needful Things is very much an adaptation worth hunting down.

With “Needful Things: The Last Castle Rock Story” (Viking; $24.95; 690 pp.), King has written the town’s final chapter. Of course, millions of his constant readers have been to Castle Rock ...

A satire on greed culture, small town politics, and mob mentalities, Needful Things is one of Stephen King’s more cynical works with a streak of dark humour a mile wide.

I distinctly remember my first experience with a Stephen King movie. I was in middle school and hanging out at the house of a friend, and playing on their living room television was 1989’s Pet ...

The works of Stephen King can make for very compelling screen adaptations, and there are a few stories of his that would make great TV shows.

`Needful Things” is an end-of-summer closeout, slipped into theaters as one more dog for the dog days. Based on still another Stephen King best seller, this is pulp moviemaking at its worst ...

Stephen King just told Twitter there is an "amazingly good" uncut version of 'Needful Things' that blew him away.

Few of these testimonies address King’s literary quality, only his cultural impact (from Cujo and Stand by Me to Needful Things, which spawned the non-King streaming series Stranger Things).

Whether Castle Rock is based primarily on Needful Things or not, the book definitely seems like something that fans would want to revisit as this story progresses.

Pangborn — or, rather, Sheriff Pangborn — is the protagonist of King’s Needful Things and the 1989 horror novel The Dark Half.