Needful Things

Read this when it first came out and find it just as thrilling now as I did then.
King knows his psychotics well, and this book has plenty of them. This is smalltown rivalry and grudge-bearing brought to a whole new level, with the aid of puppet-master Leland Gaunt, proprieter of Needful Things.
I think the moral of the story may very well be “Be careful what you wish for”.