To the children the town was their whole world. To the adults knowing better Derry Maine was just their home town: familiar well-ordered a good place to live. It was the children who saw-- and felt-- what made Derry so horribly different. In the stormdrains in the sewers It lurked taking on the shape of every nightmare each person s deepest 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 called back once more to confront It as It stirred and coiled in the sullen depths of their memories reaching up again to make their past nightmares a terrible present reality. 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).