Books like Needful Things
If you liked Needful Things by Stephen King, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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Hidden Pictures
Because shares tags: horror, supernatural, suspense.
Nanny Mallory sees Teddy drawings predict a murder in New Jersey.
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Christine
Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, supernatural.
Misfit Arnie restores a wrecked 1958 Plymouth Fury that takes him over, forcing best friend Dennis and girlfriend Leigh to fight back.
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Under the Dome
Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, small town.
Chester's Mill is sealed under an invisible dome as cook Barbie and editor Julia face Big Jim Rennie's rule.
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The Institute
Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, suspense.
A kidnapped prodigy wakes in a Maine facility where gifted kids earn tokens in Front Half and vanish from Back Half.
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Doctor Sleep
Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, supernatural.
Grown Dan Torrance gets sober in New Hampshire and helps gifted Abra Stone face the True Knot.
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Cujo
Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, small town.
A rabid St. Bernard traps a mother and her young son in a broken-down car at a lonely Maine garage.
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The Outsider
Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, supernatural.
Coach Terry Maitland's DNA and witnesses point to an impossible murder, until Ralph Anderson and Holly Gibney trace it to El Cuco.
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11/22/63
Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: suspense, horror.
A Maine teacher steps through a diner portal to 1958 to stop the Kennedy assassination, and learns the past resists change while a new life…
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'Salem's Lot
Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, small town.
A writer returns to Jerusalem's Lot as an old house fills with vampires.
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Pet Sematary
Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, supernatural.
Doctor Louis buries Church and then Gage in ground that returns them wrong, learning dead is better.
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Carrie
Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, supernatural.
Bullied Carrie White discovers telekinetic powers that turn a cruel prom prank into a night of fire.
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It
Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, supernatural.
Seven friends in Derry face a shape shifting evil as kids in 1958 and again as adults in 1985.
