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It

by Stephen King

A shape-shifting evil in a small New England town preys on children by becoming the clown from their worst nightmares.

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About It

27 years later, the Losers Club have grown up and moved away, until a devastating phone call brings them back... Derry, Maine was just an ordinary town: familiar, well-ordered for the most part, a good place to live. It was a group of 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 appeared as an evil clown named Pennywise and sometimes IT reached up, seizing, tearing, killing . . . Time passed and the children grew up, moved away and forgot. THEN they are called back, once more to confront IT as IT stirs and coils in the sullen depths of their memories, emerging again to make their past nightmares a terrible present reality... 'They'll float...and when you're down here with me, you'll float too'

Reading signals

Spice
None
Darkness
Extreme
Pacing
Slow
Content warnings
  • child endangerment
  • child death
  • child abuse
  • bullying
  • murder
  • violence
  • gore
  • body horror
  • racism/racial slurs
  • homophobia
  • domestic abuse
  • sexual violence
  • sexual content involving minors
  • suicide
  • animal cruelty
  • animal death
  • antisemitism
  • fatphobia

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