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

It took me a long time to finish this book. This book is good, but it is vast and sometimes there are so many plots and descriptions I think doesn't add anything to story and even if left alone couldn't make a difference to this story. Overall it'll take some time to finish this book and some of the things will shock you and wonder how these things are even allowed to publish in a book, but will never see on any adaptation or in movies!

When does this actually get exciting? I am a fan of Stephen King, I was hooked on pet cematary straight away but I just cannot get into this im already on page 80 and have no clue whats going on there's only been 1 or 2 exciting bits and the rest just drags on and on.. and on! bit disappointed :(

It should come to no surprise that King is very capable of writing an amazing story but when it comes to an ending, his results are lackluster. I went into this book knowing that, but after reading such a large book I wanted to payoff to be rewarding but I was left feeling a little disappointed. However the entire book was great from start to finish and the characters (which I am now forever emotionally attached to) are super likeable. This book should be read just for the relationship of The Losers.

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.