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Stephen Kingcast

Episode Sixty-Needful Things, Part One

Stephen Kingcast

Constant Reader

Tv & Film, Arts, Arts:books, Books

4.7680 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2015

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode, I head back to Castle Rock one last time for Stephen King's final Castle Rock story, Needful Things. Starring The Dark Half's Alan Pangborn, our small town sheriff must battle ancient evil as it comes to town to tempt its citizens and turn small town life into chaos.  Does the grand finale of King's most famous fictional town end with a bang or a whimper?  Find out this week in the Stephen Kingcast!Please note that this is part one of a two part episode.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The bargain store is open coming side.

0:03.0

The bargain story is open up and satisfied.

0:05.0

You can easily afford the prize.

0:08.0

Love is all you need to purchase all the merchandise,

0:14.0

and I can guarantee you'll be completely satisfied.

0:19.0

The bargain story stories open from inside

0:22.1

Hello everyone and welcome to the Stephen King cast

0:26.7

One Man's Musings on the Works of Stephen King.

0:29.9

Each week I'll review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King

0:33.2

in the chronological order of publication

0:35.3

Which brings us to 1991's Ultimate Small Town Tale,

0:41.0

the much-publicized final Castle Rock story

0:44.3

where King finally explores the question

0:46.8

of what happens when the devil comes to town

0:49.0

and opens up a shop that has everything that you need

0:52.5

for a price.

0:54.4

This novel, of course, is needful things.

0:58.2

Now, I'm a huge Castle Rock fan.

1:00.8

I'm a type of fan in general for pop culture

1:03.9

that loves little shoutouts, references, Easter eggs.

1:07.6

I just, I love interconnectivity to stories.

1:11.5

I like when an author

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