It : a novel

King, Stephen, 1947- author.

First Scribner trade paperback edition.

Book

New York : Scribner, 2016.

©1986

x, 1156 pages ; 21 cm

They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they were grown-up men and women who had gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them could withstand the force that drew them back to Derry, Maine to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name.

Good and evil -- Fiction.

Monsters -- Fiction.

Clowns -- Fiction.

Maine -- Fiction.

Horror fiction.

Novels.

Part 1. Shadow before : After the flood (1957) -- After the festival (1984) -- Six phone calls (1985) -- Derry: the first interlude -- Part 2. June of 1958 : Ben Hanscom takes a fall -- Bill Denbrough beats the devil (I) -- One of the missing: a tale from the summer of '58 -- Dam in the barrens -- Georgie's room and the house on Neibolt Street -- Cleaning up -- Derry: the second interlude -- Part 3. Grownups : The reunion -- Walking tours -- Three uninvited guests -- Derry: the third interlude -- Part 4. July of 1958 : The apocalyptic rockfight -- The album -- The smoke-hole -- Eddie's bad break -- Another one of the missing: the death of Patrick Hockstetter -- The bullseye -- Derry: the fourth interlude -- Part 5. The ritual of Chüd : In the watches of the night -- The circle closes -- Under the city -- The ritual of Chüd -- Out -- Derry: the last interlude -- Epilogue : Bill Denbrough beats the devil (II).

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