Gwendy's Button Box Summary
Richard Chizmar and Stephen King

Gwendy's Button Box Overview

In the horror novella Gwendy’s Button Box by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar, young Gwendy Peterson receives a button box as a gift from Richard Farris, a strange man whom she meets in the park. He will not tell her exactly what the box does but insinuates it is dangerous and warns her to keep it out of the hands of people who might use it for evil purposes. When Farris returns for the box just less than ten years later, Gwendy blames the bad things that have happened in her life on the box but Farris assures her this is not the case. Themes in the novel include the struggle between good and evil, the importance of personal responsibility, and the perceived power of objects or words.