Whango!

NEEDFUL THINGS

By Stephen King

Viking; 690 pages; $24.95

Right now it's October, and in The Rock we let October stay just as long as she wants to." The man who opens Stephen King's Needful Things talks like that. He's kind of a stage manager, getting the props and the people in order. Kind of like the narrator in Our Town. 'Course you know when King gets folksy it's his way of lulling you before he sets off a firecracker -- Whango! -- right in your ear. This time his explosive is one of them mysterious strangers who sneaks into Castle...

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