IT

Description

"*It*" is a 1986 horror novel by American author Stephen King. "*It*" was his 22nd book and his 17th novel written under his own name. The story follows the experiences of seven children as they are terrorized by an evil entity that exploits the fears of its victims to disguise itself while hunting its prey. "*It*" primarily appears in the form of Pennywise the Dancing Clown to attract its preferred prey of young children.The novel won the British Fantasy Award in 1987, and received nominations for the Locus and World Fantasy Awards that same year.In 2003, "*It*" was listed at number 144 on the BBC's The Big Read poll.

First Sentence

The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years-if it ever did end-began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.

Description

To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry Maine was just their home town: familiar, well-ordered for the most part. A good place to live. It was the children who saw – and felt – what made Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, IT lurked, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each one’s deepest dread. Sometimes IT reached up, seizing, tearing, killing . . . The adults, knowing better, knew nothing. Time passed and the children grew up, moved away. The horror of IT was deep-buried, wrapped in forgetfulness. Until they were called back, once more to confront IT as IT stirred and coiled in the sullen depths of their memories, reaching up again to make their past nightmares a terrible present reality. Frightening, epic, and brilliant, Stephen King's IT is one of the greatest works of a true storytelling master. --front flap

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Other Editions

• IT: A NovelHardcoverScribner2017-07-01
• ItHodder and Stoughton1986-01-01
• ItViking1986-09-15
• ItNew American Library of Canada Limited1987-01-01
• ItSignet1987-08-07
• ItTrafalgar Square1987-10-01