num_pages: 1090
description: To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry, Maine, was just their hometown: familiar, well-ordered, a good place to live. It was the children who saw - and felt - what made Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, 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.
language: English
title: It
titlecomplete: It
characters: Dick Halloran, George Denbrough, American Law Enforcement, Ben Hanscom, Stan Uris, Mike Hanlon, Frank Dodd, Eddie Kaspbrak, Audra Phillips, Patrick Hockstetter, Richie Tozier, Pennywise the Dancing Clown, Henry Bowers, Beverly Marsh, Adrian Mellon, Bill Denbrough
genres: Audiobook, Thriller, Horror, Fantasy, Classics, Mystery, Adult, Supernatural, Fiction, Paranormal
ratings_count: 1056887
places: Derry, Maine, Los Angeles, California, Chicago, Illinois, New York City, New York, Atlanta, Georgia
awards: awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Fantasy Novel, awardedAt: 536486400000
name: World Fantasy Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award, awardedAt: 536486400000
name: British Fantasy Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Signet