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Hodder are boosting Stephen King's backlist with new covers, new author brand lettering and a marketing campaign which directs readers to the right King title for them. To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry Maine was just their home town: familiar, well-ordered for the most part. 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 one'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 they 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. About the Author Stephen King has been described by the Guardian as 'one of the greatest storytellers of our time', by the Mirror as a 'genius' and by The Sunday Times as 'one of the most fertile storytellers of the modern novel.' In 2003, he was given the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, for most of the year in Maine, USA. Table of Contents PART 1: THE SHADOW BEFORE I. After the Flood (1957) 2. After the Festival (1984) 3. Six Phone Calls (1985) Derry: The First Interlude PART 2: JUNE OF 1958 4. Ben Hanscom Takes a Fall 5. BE Denbrough Beats the Devil - I 6. One of the Missing: A Tale from the Summer of '58 7. The Dam in the Barrens 8. Georgie's Room and the House on Neibolt Street 9. Clearing Up Derry: The Second Interlude PART 3: GROWNUPS 10. The Reunion 11. Walking Tours 12. Three Uninvited Guests Derry: The Third Interlude PART 4: JULY OF 1958 13 The Apocalyptic Rockfight 14 The Album 15 The Smoke-Hole 16 Eddie's Bad Break 17 Another One of the Missing: The Death of Patrick Hockstetter 18 The Bullseye Derry: The Fourth Interlude PART 5: THE RITUAL OF CHOD 19 In the Watches of the Night 20 The Circle Closes 21 Under the City 22 The Ritual of Child 23 Out