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Revision as of 17:37, 18 July 2003 by Stevertigo (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)It is the title of a horror novel by Stephen King. It is one of his best-selling books, and a favorite among his fans, though many critics have called it overly-long and uncompelling.
The novel is the story of seven friends from the fictional town of Derry, Maine, and is told with the narrative alternating between two different time periods. In the late 1950s, when they are twelve years old, the seven discover the existence of a shape-changing monster (which they call "It") and try to kill it. In the 1980s, the friends return to finish killing the monster that they thought they had killed thirty years earlier.