TO THE CHILDREN,the town was their wholeworld. To the adults, knowing better, Derry, Maine,was just their home town: familiar, well ordered, agood place to live. It was the children who saw—and felt—what made Derry so horribly different. Inthe storm drains, in the sewers, It lurked, takingon the shape of every nightmare, each person’sdeepest dread. Sometimes It reached up, seizing,tearing, killing. . . .The adults, knowing better, knew nothing.Time passed and the children grew up, moved away.The horror of It was deep-buried, wrapped in forgetfulness. Until the grown-up children were calledback, once more to confront It as It stirred andcoiled in the sullen depths of their memories,reaching up again to make their past nightmaresa terrible present reality.Frightening, epic, and brilliant, StephenKing’s IT is one of the greatest works of a truestorytelling master.