Errors in Needful Things
- In the introduction we find that Frank Dodd went crazy 12 years ago and killed a number of women. The book is based in 1991, and making the Dodd murders back in 1979. The only problem is that Frank Dodd committed suicide on the 17 Dec 1975, 4 years earlier.
- In chapter 7, subchapter 5 Alan tells Polly that the last time his son Al was home it was because he needed to talk to his friend Jimmy Catlin to help get some of his choicest programs to run on the new Commodore 64. In 1988, the original Commodore 64 was far from new. There were later versions of the C64 released up until the late 1980's and even into the early 90's, so this may not strictly be an error. While the C-64 he had may have been relatively new, the actual model could have been quite old, or very recent - we simply dont know. (Thanks to Kerry Wilson for more info on this error)
- In Cujo it says that Evelyn Chalmers died on the 30th of June 1980. But in Needful Things Part 1, Chapter 2, subchapter 1, it says that she died in 1981.
- In The Dark Half Chapter 16, subchapter 6 we learn that Alan Pangborn's boys are Todd and Toby. In Needful Things his sons are Al and Todd.
- Leyland Gaunt drove a Tucker Talisman, but this car was never built, and only existed on the drawing board. King claims there were three built for story purposes so he could give one to Leland Gaunt. On the topic of Tucker, he died in the U.S. and King said Brazil.
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