It

Stephen King

Jan 2016 · Simon and Schuster · Narrated by Steven Weber

About this audiobook

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 upcoming Welcome to Derry—about seven adults who return to their hometown to confront a nightmare they had first stumbled upon as teenagers...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).

Ratings and reviews

Awesome listen. The voice actor really put his heart into this one. My only complaint is with whoever did the editing. Sentances are often cut off at the last word/syllable. I had no issue following along, and got used to it eventually. But it was certainly jarring at first. Don't let that stop you from giving this a go however. I would highly recommend.

Great story, but in audiobook form(atleast here on Google play) there are audio issues galore. After chapter 1 there are anywhere between 5-15 errors in every chapter where the audio cuts off at the end or in the middle of a sentence forcing you to try and fill in the holes with assumption. The narrator has a good tone and speed but there are a few instances, maybe 3-4 where it's almost like he misread or flubbed the line and it's just left in the final recording.

Very good, so brutal and intense I can see why no movie will ever be able to truly bring it to screen, if you did you would be arrested haha. Highly recommend it especially in audio book format it's a ton of pages and can be a little slow at parts but with the narration the 45hrs fly by. It was my very first audio book I ever listened to and I am now hooked.

About the author

Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes the short story collection You Like It Darker, Holly (a New York Times Notable Book of 2023), Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of 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 Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.