The boat bobbed, listed, righted itself again, dived bravely through treacherous whirlpools, and continued on its way down Witcham Street toward the traffic light which marked the intersection of Witcham and Jackson. The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years-if it ever did end-began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain. Bruce Springsteen CHAPTER 1 After the Flood (1957) 1 You been down but you’re still in my bones." This town gonna be here long after I’m gone.Įast side west side take a close look ’round her "This old town been home long as I remember Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists. My mother and my wife taught me how to be a man. This book is gratefully dedicated to my children. The Philadelphia Inquirer CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP It, by Stephen King, Scribner IT exhibits the potato chip syndrome-quite simply, you can’t read just one page and stop.… It is in this novel that King comes out of the closet, a closet jammed and crowded with his own monsters.Ĭhock-full of spooky stuff… a sprawling scare-fest that defines King’s recurring themes and adds a new set of ambitions to the mix. King’s most ambitious project… reads as if written in a white heat! ![]() Vintage King… a magnum opus of terror… just a glance at the first few pages, and you can’t put this novel aside.Ī great scary book… a nightmare roller coaster… packed with more chills than a Frigidaire… ‘It’ turns out to be the monster-dread in us all, the one that refuses to go away.Įpic… gargantuan… breathlessly accelerating suspense… King is our great storyteller.… I imagine him as a possessed figure rocking over a smoking word processor, hunting for a beat his sentences can dance to, pounding the shocks and scares like a rock organist laying down the power chords.Ī ghoul’s delight… a good old-fashioned chill and shiver fest… as creepy as the finest of that genre. Read moreĪ mesmerizing odyssey of terror… King writes like one possessed, never cheats the reader, always gives full measure.… He is brilliant… dark and sinister. Petersburg Times), “ It will overwhelm you…to be read in a well-lit room only” ( Los Angeles Times). It reappears in many of his books, including Bag of Bones, Hearts in Atlantis, and 11/22/63. Readers of Stephen King know that Derry, Maine, is a place with a deep, dark hold on the author. 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. 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 they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Stephen King’s terrifying, classic #1 New York Times bestseller, “a landmark in American literature” ( Chicago Sun-Times)-about seven adults who return to their hometown to confront a nightmare they had first stumbled on as teenagers…an evil without a name: It. Solo che nessuno, finora, è mai riuscito a evadere dall'Istituto.It: Chapter Two -now a major motion picture! E così, uno alla volta, i compagni di Luke spariscono, mentre lui cerca disperatamente una via d'uscita. Chi non si adegua subisce punizioni implacabili. ![]() Sono le regole della feroce signora Sigsby, direttrice dell'Istituto, convinta di poter estrarre i loro doni: con qualunque mezzo, a qualunque costo. «È come il motel di un film dell'orrore», dice Kalisha. Poi, qualcuno finisce nella Seconda Casa. Appena arrivati, sono destinati alla Prima Casa, dove Luke trova infatti i compagni Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris e Avery Dixon, che ha solo dieci anni. Dietro porte tutte uguali, lungo corridoi illuminati da luci spettrali, si trovano piccoli geni con poteri speciali (telepatia e telecinesi). Quando si sveglia, il ragazzo si trova in una camera del tutto simile alla sua, ma senza finestre, nel famigerato Istituto dove sono rinchiusi altri bambini come lui. Bastano due minuti, sprofondati nel silenzio irreale di una tranquilla strada di periferia, per sconvolgere la vita di Luke, per sempre. È notte fonda a Minneapolis, quando un misterioso gruppo di persone si introduce in casa di Luke Ellis, uccide i suoi genitori e lo porta via in un SUV nero.
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