Praise for IT

“The indisputable King of Horror.”

—TIME

“A mesmerizing odyssey of terror . . . King writes like one possessed, never cheats the reader, always gives full measure. . . . He is brilliant. . . . dark and sinister.”

—The Washington Post Book World

“Vintage King . . . a magnum opus of terror . . . just a glance at the first few pages, and you can’t put this novel aside.”

—St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“A 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.”

—San Francisco Chronicle

“Epic . . . 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.”

—Los Angeles Herald Examiner

“A ghoul’s delight . . . a good old-fashioned chill and shiver fest . . . as creepy as the finest of that genre.”

—The Kansas City Star

“King’s most ambitious project . . . reads as if written in a white heat!”

—San Jose Mercury News

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.”

—Houston Chronicle

“Compulsively readable.”

—Fort Worth Star-Telegram

“King’s most mature work.”

—St. Petersburg Times

“Chock-full of spooky stuff . . . a sprawling scare-fest that defines King’s recurring themes and adds a new set of ambitions to the mix.”

—The Philadelphia Inquirer