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It

by Stephen King

A return to Derry and a buried childhood terror

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  • Bestseller

    #1 New York Times bestseller

AlbakiReads Editorial

A return to Derry and a buried childhood terror

Set in Derry, Maine, It links a group’s teenage encounter with a predatory creature to their return as adults, twenty-eight years later. The renewed danger to the city’s children brings their repressed memories—and an old promise—back into the present. That structure makes memory, childhood, and the persistence of shared fear central to the novel’s horror, while Derry itself serves as more than a backdrop: the town is bound to the threat the characters once faced and must confront again.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For adult readers seeking a horror novel rooted in a small-town setting.
  • For readers interested in stories connecting childhood experiences with adult lives.
  • For Stephen King readers interested in the fictional town of Derry.

Themes

Childhood and memoryShared promisesSmall-town horrorFear and returning threats

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Book overview

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 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).
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