This true first edition of Needful Things, from 1991 is in emasculate condition. Please see photos for more details and condition. The pages are crisp and clean, unwritten in. The binding is straight and tight, all pages are present and intact. Very clean edition. True first. First edition, first print. Minor imperfection on the front cover bottom middle of the book, under dust jacket. Needful Things is a 1991 horror novel by American author Stephen King. It is the first novel King wrote after his rehabilitation from drug and alcohol addiction. It was made into a film of the same name in 1993 which was directed by Fraser C. Heston.