It: Film tie-in edition of Stephen King's IT

Stephen King

Oct 2007 · Hachette UK

About this ebook

Now with a stunning new cover look, King's classic No. 1 bestseller and the basis for the massively successful films It: Chapter One and It: Chapter Two as well as the inspiration for HBO Max's upcoming Welcome to Derry.

We all float down here.

Derry, Maine is just an ordinary town: familiar, well-ordered for the most part, a good place to live.

It is a group of children who see - and feel - what makes Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, IT lurks, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each one's deepest dread. Sometimes IT appears as an evil clown named Pennywise and sometimes IT reaches up, seizing, tearing, killing . . .

Time passes and the children grow up, move away and forget. Until 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.

Ratings and reviews

Stephen King is such a great author, definitely one of my favourites. The book is great and I prefer it more over the films but there films are also pretty good and enjoyable to watch. But don't read it if you can't handle long ass books and then complain because its long or too much. Its supposed to be, keep in mind it has over 1000 pages and the original film was 3 hours long and the remake was over 2 hours (for just the first part). However, I definitely recommend both the book and the film(s).

At 29 yrs old, I have finally read this book after an almost lifelong fear of clowns (from seeing an image of Tim Curry's It as a toddler). Not one of the best King stories ever, I thought parts of the plot were unnecessary, but it was still very good. Not so much to be afraid of after all!

Didn't think I would enjoy this after 7th time of reading It but, I've got to say I enjoyed it a lot more. I'd encourage anyone to give this a read before seeing the film (although it might ruin the film for you, as I hated the 2017 film) still, this is the most captivating book after many years and many books. There's isn't a better storyteller than Stephen King.

About the author

STEPHEN KING is the author of more than seventy books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His crime thrillers featuring Holly Gibney include Mr Mercedes, winner of the Edgar Award for best novel, and The Outsider, both of which were adapted into successful TV series, as well as Finders Keepers, End of Watch and the title story from If It Bleeds. Many of his titles are the basis for major motion pictures including IT, Stand By Me (adapted from The Body) and The Shawshank Redemption, which is IMDb's top-rated movie of all time. King is the recipient of The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence 2022, the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.