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| name = It
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| image = It (1986) front cover, first edition.jpg
| caption = First edition cover
| author = [[Stephen King]]
| cover_artist = Bob Giusti (illustration)<br />Amy Hill (lettering)
| country = United States
| language = English
| genre = [[Horror fiction|Horror]]<br />[[Thriller (genre)|Thriller]]<br />[[Dark fantasy]]<br />[[Coming-of-age story]]
| publisher = [[Viking Press|Viking]]
| release_date = September 15, 1986
| media_type = Print
| pages = 1,138<ref name="Lehman Haupt">{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/08/21/books/books-of-the-times-547486.html |title=Books of the Times: ''It'' |work=[[The New York Times]] |author=Christopher Lehman-Haupt |date=August 21, 1986 |access-date=May 13, 2019}}</ref>
| isbn = 0-670-81302-8
| oclc = 936070975
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'''''It''''' is a 1986 [[Horror fiction|horror novel]] by American author [[Stephen King]]. This is his 22nd book and his 17th novel written under his own name. The story follows seven children as they are terrorized by an evil entity called It, which exploits the fears of its victims to disguise itself while hunting its prey. It is a monstrous, [[shapeshifting]] predator that primarily appears in the form of [[Pennywise|Pennywise the Dancing Clown]] to attract its preferred prey of young children.

The story is told through a nonlinear narrative, alternating between two time periods. It chronicles "the Losers' Club", a group of seven outcast children in the fictional town of [[Derry (Stephen King)|Derry, Maine]], during the late 1950s. The Losers discover they are being hunted by an ancient, trans-dimensional evil that awakens every 27 years to feed on the town's children. After a battle with the creature, they make a [[blood brother|blood oath]] to return to Derry if It ever resurfaces. Twenty-seven years later, the killings resume, and the now-adult Losers, who have largely forgotten the traumatic events of their childhood, must return to their hometown to confront the monster one last time.

The book explores themes of memory, childhood trauma, the loss of innocence, and the power of unity and belief. Upon release, ''It'' became the best-selling hardcover fiction book in the United States for 1986 and won the [[British Fantasy Award]] in 1987. The novel was largely acclaimed for its epic scope, and critical discussion surrounded its length, graphic violence, and a sexually explicit scene involving the child protagonists. The character of Pennywise has become one of the most iconic villains in popular culture, and the novel's success has led to multiple adaptations, including the 1990 television miniseries ''[[It (miniseries)|It]]'', a two-part film adaptation, ''[[It (2017 film)|It]]'' (2017) and ''[[It Chapter Two]]'' (2019), and the 2025 television series ''[[It – Welcome to Derry|It: Welcome to Derry]]''.

==Background==
In 1978, King and his family lived in [[Boulder, Colorado]]. One evening, King ventured alone to pick up his car from the repair shop and came across an old wooden bridge, "humped and oddly quaint". Walking along the bridge caused King to recall the story of "[[Three Billy Goats Gruff]]", and the idea of transplanting the tale's scenario into a real-life context interested him. King was further inspired by a line by [[Marianne Moore]]—“imaginary gardens with real toads in them"—which in his mind came out as "real trolls in imaginary gardens". King returned to the concept two years later and gradually accumulated ideas and thoughts, particularly the concept of weaving the narratives of children and the adults they become. King began writing ''It'' in 1980,<ref name="Startyear">{{cite news |date=October 5, 1980 |title=Horror writer Stephen King is afraid there's something awful under his bed |url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2019/11/07/horror-writer-stephen-king-is-afraid-theres-something-awful-under-his-bed.html |newspaper=The Toronto Star}}</ref> and finished the book five years later.<ref name="Smythe">{{cite web |author=James Smythe |date=May 28, 2013 |title=Rereading Stephen King, chapter 21: ''It'' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/may/28/rereading-stephen-king-it |access-date=May 13, 2019 |work=The Guardian}}</ref> King found influence in the mythology and history surrounding the construction of the sewer system in [[Bangor, Maine]].<ref name="Hendrix">{{cite web |author=Grady Hendrix |date=September 25, 2013 |title=The Great Stephen King Reread: ''It'' |url=https://www.tor.com/2013/09/25/the-great-stephen-king-reread-it/ |access-date=May 13, 2019 |publisher=Tor.com}}</ref>

==Plot==
The novel is told through [[Nonlinear narrative|narratives alternating]] between two time periods, and largely in the [[Narrative mode#Third-person.2C omniscient|third-person omniscient mode]].

===1957–1958===
During a rainstorm in [[Derry (Stephen King)|Derry, Maine]], a six-year-old boy named [[Georgie Denbrough]] sails a paper boat along the rainy streets before it washes down into a storm drain. Looking in the drain, Georgie encounters a clown who introduces himself as [[Pennywise|Pennywise the Dancing Clown]]. Georgie, despite knowing he should not talk to strangers, is enticed by Pennywise to reach into the drain and retrieve his boat. It then rips his arm off, and Georgie dies.

The following June, an overweight eleven-year-old boy named Ben Hanscom is harassed by a bully named Henry Bowers and his gang on the last day of school, escaping into the marshy wasteland known as [[Derry (Stephen King)#The Barrens|the Barrens]]. There, Ben befriends an asthmatic hypochondriac named Eddie Kaspbrak and [[Bill Denbrough|"Stuttering Bill" Denbrough]], Georgie's elder brother. The three boys later befriend fellow misfits [[Richie Tozier]], Stanley "Stan" Uris, and [[Beverly Marsh]], and refer to themselves as "The Losers Club". As the summer draws on, the Losers each encounter Pennywise in terrifying manifestations: a [[mummy]] on a frozen canal to Ben, a fountain of blood (that only children can see) from Beverly's sink, a rotting [[leper]] to Eddie, drowned corpses to Stan, and a frightening phantom of Georgie to Bill. Meanwhile, the increasingly unhinged and sadistic Bowers begins focusing his attention on his [[African-American]] neighbor, Mike Hanlon and his father. Bowers kills Mike's dog and chases the terrified boy into the Barrens, where he joins the Losers in driving Bowers's gang off in a rock fight, leaving a humiliated Bowers promising revenge. Mike becomes a member of the Losers Club after revealing his own encounter with Pennywise in the form of a carnivorous bird. 

From Mike's historical scrapbook, the Losers realize that It is an ancient monster with a firm grip on the town. Following further encounters, the Losers construct a makeshift [[smoke hole]] that Richie and Mike use to hallucinate It's origins as an ancient [[Extraterrestrial life|extraterrestrial]] who came to Earth, beginning a cycle of hunting for one year followed by a 27-year-long hibernation.

Eddie is hospitalized by Bowers and several of his friends, and Beverly witnesses one of the bullies, Patrick Hockstetter, consumed by It in the form of a mass of flying leeches. The Losers discover a message from It written in Patrick's blood, warning them that It will kill them if they interfere. In the hope that silver can wound It, Ben makes two silver slugs out of a silver dollar, and the Losers enter an abandoned house where Eddie, Bill, and Richie had previously encountered It to attempt to kill It. They manage to wound It with the silver while It is in the form of a [[werewolf]]. Deeming the Losers a threat, It manipulates Bowers into murdering his abusive father, then chasing the Losers into the sewers to kill them, where his accompanying fellow bullies, Victor "Vic" Criss and Reginald "Belch" Huggins, are both killed by It. Bowers is lost in the sewers.

In the sewers, Bill performs the Ritual of Chüd in an attempt to face It in the Macroverse, the alternate universe where It is from. There he meets the monster's antithesis, Maturin, an ancient turtle that created the universe. Bill learns that It can only be defeated during a battle of wills, in which he emerges victorious; in doing so, he sees Its true form, and its place of origin, the Deadlights. After the battle, not knowing if they killed It or not, the Losers get lost in the sewers. To try and regain a sense of direction, Beverly has [[sexual intercourse]] with each of the boys.<ref>{{cite book |title=It |last=King |first=Stephen |at=Chapter 22 ''The Ritual of Chüd'', sec. 12 ''Love and Desire/August 10th, 1958''}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Steve's Explanation For Loser's Sex Scene |last=King |first=Stephen |date=November 17, 2013 |url=https://stephenking.com/xf/index.php?threads/steves-explanation-for-losers-sex-scene.444/post-12784 }}</ref> Once they are safely out, the Losers swear a [[Blood brother|blood oath]] to return to Derry should the threat resurface. Bowers, having lost his sanity by the time he escaped the sewers into a nearby river, is institutionalized after being blamed for the town's child murders.

===1984–1985===
In July 1984, three youths brutally attack a young gay man named Adrian Mellon and [[Killing of Charlie Howard|throw him off a bridge]], where Adrian's partner and one of the attackers both see a mysterious clown. Adrian is found dead and mutilated, and the teens are arrested and charged with his murder.

When a string of violent child killings begins in Derry again, Mike Hanlon, who is now the town's librarian, calls up the six former members of the Losers Club to remind them of their childhood promise to return if the killings start again. Bill is now a successful horror writer living with his actress wife, Audra; Beverly is a fashion designer, married to an abusive man named Tom Rogan; Eddie runs a limousine rental company and has married a codependent woman similar to his hypochondriac mother; Richie Tozier is a disc jockey; Ben Hanscom has lost weight and is a successful, but single and lonely architect; and Stan Uris is a wealthy accountant. Prior to Mike's phone calls, all of the Losers had completely forgotten each other and the trauma of their childhood, burying the horror of their encounters with It. All of the Losers agree to return to Derry, except for Stan, who kills himself in terror of facing It again.

The Losers meet for lunch, where Mike reminds them that the creature awakens roughly every 27 years for 12–16 months at a time, feeding on children before going into slumber again. The group decides to kill It once and for all. At Mike's suggestion, each person explores different parts of Derry to help restore their memories. While exploring, Eddie, Richie, Beverly, and Ben are faced with manifestations of It (Eddie as Belch Huggins and childhood friends in leprous and zombified forms, Richie as a [[Paul Bunyan]] statue, Beverly as the witch from [[Hansel & Gretel]] in her childhood home, and Ben as [[Count Dracula|Dracula]] in the Derry Library). Bill finds his childhood bicycle, "Silver", and brings it to Mike's. In the meantime, Audra, who is worried about Bill, travels to Derry; Beverly's husband arrives as well, intending to kill Beverly, who has finally vanquished his power over her; and Henry Bowers escapes from the mental asylum with help from It.

Henry confronts Mike at the library, but Mike escapes, seriously injured. It instructs Henry to kill the rest of the Losers, but Henry is killed while attacking Eddie. It then appears to Tom and orders him to capture Audra, bringing Audra to Its lair, where Audra becomes [[catatonic]], and Tom, seeing It in its true form, collapses with shock. Bill, Ben, Beverly, Richie, and Eddie learn that Mike is near death and realize they are being forced into another confrontation with It. They descend into the sewers and use their strength as a group to "send energy" to a hospitalized Mike, who fights off a nurse that is under the control of It.

They reach It's lair, and the clown transforms into its true form, a giant, mutated spider-like creature. Bill and Richie enter Its mind through the Ritual of Chüd, but they get lost in It. Eddie injures It by spraying his asthma medication down Its throat, using the monster's powers of imagination to believe he is spraying acid in It's mouth, which works. It bites off Eddie's arm, killing him. It runs away to tend to its injuries, but Bill, Richie, and Ben chase after and find that It has laid eggs. Ben stays behind to destroy the eggs, while Bill and Richie head toward their final confrontation with It. Bill surprises and attacks It, before managing to wound It's heart. The Spider attempts to bargain with the group, but the Losers collectively beat, stomp and [[dismember]] the creature, killing It.

The group meets up to head out of It's lair, and although they try to bring Audra and Eddie's bodies with them, they are forced to leave Eddie behind. They realize that the scars on their hands from their blood pact have disappeared, indicating that their ordeal is finally over.

At the same time, the worst storm in Maine's history sweeps through Derry, and the downtown area collapses. Mike concludes that Derry is dying. The Losers return home and gradually begin to forget about It, Derry, and each other all over again. Mike's memory of the events of that summer also begins to fade, as well as any of the records he had written down previously, much to his relief, and he considers starting a new life elsewhere. Ben and Beverly leave together and become a couple, and Richie returns to California. Bill is the last to leave Derry. Before he goes, he takes Audra, still catatonic, for a ride on Silver, which awakens her from her catatonia, and they share a kiss.

==Themes==
''It'' thematically focuses on the loss of childhood innocence<ref name="Smythe"/> and questions the difference between necessity and free will.<ref name="Lehman Haupt">{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/08/21/books/books-of-the-times-547486.html |title=Books of the Times: ''It'' |work=[[The New York Times]] |author=Christopher Lehman-Haupt |date=August 21, 1986 |access-date=May 13, 2019}}</ref> Grady Hendrix of Tor.com described the book as being "about the fact that some doors only open one way, and that while there's an exit out of childhood named sex, there’s no door leading the other way that turns adults back into children".<ref name="Hendrix"/> Christopher Lehman-Haupt of ''[[The New York Times]]'' noted that ''It'' "concerns the evil that has haunted America from time to time in the forms of crime, racial and religious bigotry, economic hardship, labor strife and industrial pollution", and that the novel's setting "is a museum filled with the popular culture of the 1950s: brand names, rock 'n' roll songs and stars, the jokes and routines of childhood in that era".<ref name="Lehman Haupt"/> James Smythe of ''[[The Guardian]]'' opined that "Pennywise isn't the novel's biggest terror. The most prominent notions of fear in the novel come from the Losers Club themselves: their home lives, the things that have made them pariahs."<ref name="Smythe"/> 

==Release==
On December 13, 2011, [[Cemetery Dance Publications|Cemetery Dance]] published a special limited edition of ''It'' for the 25th anniversary of the novel ({{ISBN|978-1-58767-270-5}}) in three editions: an unsigned limited gift edition of 2,750, a signed limited edition of 750, and a signed and lettered limited edition of 52. All three editions are oversized hardcovers, housed in a slipcase or traycase, and feature premium binding materials. This anniversary edition features a new dust jacket illustration by [[Glen Orbik]], as well as numerous interior illustrations by [[Alan M. Clark]] and Erin Wells. The book also contains a new afterword by Stephen King discussing his reasons for writing the novel.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/king06 |title=It (25th Anniversary Special Edition) |work=cemeterydance.com |access-date=March 30, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150315082535/http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/king06 |archive-date=March 15, 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Reception and legacy==
The novel won the [[British Fantasy Award]] in 1987, and received nominations for the [[Locus Award|''Locus'']] and [[World Fantasy Award|World Fantasy Awards]] that year.<ref name="WWE-19872">{{cite web |title=1987 Award Winners & Nominees |url=https://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1987 |access-date=July 22, 2009 |work=Worlds Without End}}</ref> ''[[Publishers Weekly]]'' listed ''It'' as the best-selling hardcover fiction book in the United States in 1986.<ref>{{cite news |last=Monaghan |first=Charles |date=March 29, 1987 |title=BOOK REPORT |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1987/03/29/book-report/0c0e23d3-5bd0-4b82-8c3b-7cbf68d755a2/ |access-date=June 19, 2019 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref>

Modern reviews of the novel were more mixed, with critics divided on several issues, including the book's length,<ref name="Hendrix" /> the way in which women characters are "demonized",<ref name=":0" /> and the sex scene involving children.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=September 11, 2016 |title=Where "It" Was: Rereading Stephen King's "It" on Its 30th Anniversary |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/where-it-was-rereading-stephen-kings-it-on-its-30th-anniversary/ |access-date=March 17, 2025 |website=Los Angeles Review of Books}}</ref> 

''[[The New York Times]]'' praised the author's ability to create atmosphere, but perceived a lack of motivation in Stanley Uris's death and the reunion of the group.<ref name="Lehman Haupt" /> ''[[Reactor (magazine)|Reactor]]'' described the book as "by turns boring and shocking" and "one of King's most frustrating and perplexing books", and criticized the portrayal of the child characters as "a little too perfect".<ref name="Hendrix" /> ''[[The Guardian]]'' revisited the book after 30 years, describing the novel as "incredible: a structural marvel", and expressed concern over the descriptions of childhood sexuality, especially the scene "involving the young Losers' Club taking part in what amounts to an orgy",<ref name="Smythe" /> although Grady Hendrix in ''Reactor'' identified this moment as "in a sense, the heart of the book" and a thematic demonstration of the crossing from childhood to adulthood.<ref name="Hendrix" />

In 2003, ''It'' was listed at number 144 on the [[BBC]]'s [[The Big Read]] poll, as one of three King novels on the list.<ref>{{cite web |date=April 2003 |title=The Big Read Top 100 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top200.shtml |access-date=October 19, 2018 |website=BBC}}</ref>

The character Pennywise has been named by several outlets as one of the scariest clowns in film or pop culture.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/oct/29/the-10-most-terrifying-clowns-movies-film-tv |title=The 10 most terrifying clowns |last=Glenza |first=Jessica |date=October 29, 2014 |newspaper=The Guardian |issn=0261-3077 |access-date=May 1, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://screenrant.com/scariest-clowns-horror-movies/?view=all |title=10 Most Terrifying Clowns in Horror Movies |date=September 23, 2015 |website=Screen Rant |access-date=May 1, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://nerdist.com/the-scariest-clowns-in-pop-culture/ |title=The Scariest Clowns in Pop Culture |date=October 22, 2015 |website=Nerdist |access-date=May 1, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160602102032/http://nerdist.com/the-scariest-clowns-in-pop-culture/ |archive-date=June 2, 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://moviepilot.com/posts/1438566 |title="Hey Kid, Want A Balloon?" – Horror's 5 Creepiest Clowns |last=Martin |first=Amy |website=Movie Pilot |access-date=May 1, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170909142911/https://moviepilot.com/posts/1438566 |archive-date=September 9, 2017 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2025, the novel was banned in Russia.<ref>{{cite web | title=Stephen King's 'It' disappears from Russian bookstores and online retailers | url=https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/11/20/stephen-king-s-it-disappears-from-russian-bookstores-and-online-retailers }}</ref>

==Adaptations==
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In 1990, the novel was adapted into a [[It (miniseries)|television miniseries]] starring [[Tim Curry]] as Pennywise the Clown/It,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://liljas-library.com/showinterview.php?id=73 |title=Lilja's Library – The World of Stephen King [1996 – 2017] |work=liljas-library.com |access-date=March 30, 2017}}</ref> [[John Ritter]] as Ben Hanscom, [[Harry Anderson]] as Richie Tozier, [[Richard Masur]] as Stan Uris, [[Tim Reid]] as Mike Hanlon, [[Annette O'Toole]] as Beverly Marsh, [[Richard Thomas (actor)|Richard Thomas]] as Bill Denbrough, [[Olivia Hussey]] as Audra Phillips, [[Dennis Christopher]] as Eddie Kaspbrak, and [[Michael Cole (actor)|Michael Cole]] as Henry Bowers. The younger versions of the characters were played by Brandon Crane (Ben), [[Seth Green]] (Richie), Ben Heller (Stan), Marlon Taylor (Mike), [[Emily Perkins]] (Beverly), [[Jonathan Brandis]] (Bill), Adam Faraizl (Eddie), and Jarred Blancard (Henry). The miniseries was directed by [[Tommy Lee Wallace]] and scripted by Wallace and [[Lawrence D. Cohen]].

In 1998, the novel was adapted into a [[Woh|television series]] set in India, starring [[Lilliput (actor)|Lilliput]] as Pennywise the Clown/Vikram/Woh/It, and [[Ashutosh Gowarikar]] (Ashutosh), [[Mamik Singh]] (Rahul), Anupam Bhattacharya (Sanjeev), [[Shreyas Talpade]] (Young Ashutosh), [[Parzan Dastur]] (Young Siddhart), [[Manoj Joshi (actor)|Manoj Joshi]] (Amit), and [[Daya Shankar Pandey]] (Chandu), the series' equivalent of the Losers Club. The series was directed and written by Glen Baretto and Ankush Mohla.

The first of a two-part feature film adaptation, ''[[It (2017 film)|It]]'', was released on September 8, 2017.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2016/04/chips-it-warner-bros-release-dates-2017-1201742518/ |title=Warner Bros. Sets 'CHiPs', 'It' & Untitled PG-13 Comedy For 2017 |publisher=Deadline |last=D'Alessandro |first=Anthony |date=April 22, 2016}}</ref> It is directed by [[Andy Muschietti]], with a screenplay by Chase Palmer, [[Cary Joji Fukunaga|Cary Fukunaga]] and [[Gary Dauberman]]. Instead of a dual narrative, the first film is solely an adaptation of the section that features the characters as children, though the setting has been updated to the late 1980s. It stars [[Bill Skarsgård]] as Pennywise and [[Jaeden Martell]] as Bill Denbrough. Supporting roles are played by [[Finn Wolfhard]] as Richie Tozier, [[Sophia Lillis]] as Beverly Marsh, [[Jack Dylan Grazer]] as Eddie Kaspbrak, [[Wyatt Oleff]] as Stanley Uris, [[Chosen Jacobs]] as Mike Hanlon, [[Jeremy Ray Taylor]] as Ben Hanscom, [[Owen Teague]] as Patrick Hockstetter, [[Nicholas Hamilton]] as Henry Bowers, Logan Thompson as Vic Criss and Jake Sim as Belch Huggins.

The second film, ''[[It Chapter Two]]'', adapted the "adult" section and updated the setting to the 2010s, specifically 2016. It starred [[James McAvoy]] (Bill), [[Bill Hader]] (Richie), [[Jessica Chastain]] (Beverly), [[James Ransone]] (Eddie), [[Andy Bean (actor)|Andy Bean]] (Stan), [[Isaiah Mustafa]] (Mike), and [[Jay Ryan (actor)|Jay Ryan]] (Ben). Skarsgård reprised the role of Pennywise and the younger actors returned as well. Principal photography wrapped in 2018, and it was released on September 6, 2019.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://screenrant.com/it-chapter-two-cast-wrapped/ |title=IT: Chapter Two Young Losers' Club Cast Has Wrapped Filming |date=November 1, 2018 |website=ScreenRant |access-date=February 18, 2019}}</ref>

On March 21, 2022, ''Variety'' reported that Muschietti, along with his sister [[Barbara Muschietti]], and [[Jason Fuchs]], was developing and executive producing a prequel series for [[HBO Max]], titled ''[[It – Welcome to Derry|It: Welcome to Derry]]''. The show takes place in 1962, before the events of ''[[It (2017 film)|It: Chapter One]]'', and includes the origin story of Pennywise the Clown. The series premiered on October 26, 2025.<ref name="ITWTDReleaseDate">{{Cite web |last=Petski |first=Denise |date=September 2, 2025|title=''IT: Welcome To Derry'' Gets Premiere Date At HBO Max |url=https://deadline.com/2025/09/it-welcome-to-derry-release-date-hbo-max-1236504081/ |access-date=September 3, 2025 |website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{ISFDB title|id=1695}}
* [https://www.worldswithoutend.com/novel.asp?ID=765 It] at Worlds Without End
* [https://illuminati8.blogspot.com/2011/05/it-by-stephen-king.html IT Review] at Illuminati Blog
* [http://stephenkingsit.weebly.com A Chapter-By-Chapter Analysis] at It: An Annotated Look at Stephen King

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