It: A Novel
Stephen King’s classic #1 New York Times bestseller and the basis for the massively successful films It: Chapter One and It: Chapter Two as well as inspiration for HBO Max’s series It: Welcome to Derry—about seven adults who return to their hometown to confront a nightmare they had first stumbled upon as teenagers...an evil without a name: It.
Welcome to Derry, Maine. It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real.
They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But the promise they made twenty-eight years ago calls them reunite in the same place where, as teenagers, they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city’s children. Now, children are being murdered again and their repressed memories of that terrifying summer return as they prepare to once again battle the monster lurking in Derry’s sewers.
Readers of Stephen King know that Derry, Maine, is a place with a deep, dark hold on the author. It reappears in many of his books, including Bag of Bones, Hearts in Atlantis, and 11/22/63. But it all starts with It.
“Stephen King’s most mature work” (St. Petersburg Times), “It will overwhelm you…to be read in a well-lit room only” (Los Angeles Times).
Welcome to Derry, Maine. It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real.
They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But the promise they made twenty-eight years ago calls them reunite in the same place where, as teenagers, they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city’s children. Now, children are being murdered again and their repressed memories of that terrifying summer return as they prepare to once again battle the monster lurking in Derry’s sewers.
Readers of Stephen King know that Derry, Maine, is a place with a deep, dark hold on the author. It reappears in many of his books, including Bag of Bones, Hearts in Atlantis, and 11/22/63. But it all starts with It.
“Stephen King’s most mature work” (St. Petersburg Times), “It will overwhelm you…to be read in a well-lit room only” (Los Angeles Times).
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Readers say Stephen King's *It* is a gripping, intense horror novel set in the fictional town of Derry, Maine, where an ancient evil resurfaces every ...
The story is set in the fictional town of Derry, Maine, which is plagued every 27 years by an ancient, shapeshifting evil that typically appears as Pennywise the Dancing Clown.
1958 Timeline: Seven outcast children, known as the "Losers' Club," bond over their shared encounters with the monster and their struggle against local bullies like Henry Bowers. They eventually confront IT in the sewers, believing they have defeated it.
1985 Timeline: As adults, the group has forgotten their childhood trauma until a new wave of murders begins. Mike Hanlon, the only one who stayed in Derry, calls the others back to fulfill a blood oath to destroy IT once and for all.
This is the longest book I’ve ever read and there’s not a single chapter I would cut. Masterfully done.
Truly disgusting at every turn and kept me at the edge of my seat in my younger years, rereading it now it is still disgusting and terrifying read. Love the adaptations it has lead to and the great works it has inspired.
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