IT (REISSUES)
Derry, Maine looks like any other small American town: quietly ordered, unremarkable, the sort of place you'd drive through without a second thought. But beneath its surface, something ancient and deeply wrong has taken root. It's a group of children who first sense the rot, who glimpse what hides in the storm drains and crawls through the sewer pipes beneath their feet. It shifts shape constantly, borrowing the face of whatever frightens you most. Sometimes it wears the grinning mask of a clown called Pennywise. Sometimes it simply reaches out and takes what it wants. King writes childhood dread with a precision that's genuinely unsettling, capturing the specific, suffocating terror that only children seem able to feel. Years pass. The children scatter, grow older, and bury what they knew. Memory does its quiet, merciful work. Then the forgetting stops. Drawn back to Derry as adults, they must face what they left behind, only now their old nightmares have shed any remaining distance and become horribly immediate. IT is a long book, yes, but it earns every page. Few horror novels manage to be this intimate and this monstrous at the same time.
- Author: Stephen King
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
- Genre: Thrillers & Suspense
- ISBN: 978-1444707861
- Pages: 1184 pages