Seven childhood friends in Derry, Maine face an ancient shape-shifting evil that preys on children, then reunite as adults thirty years later to finish what they started.
Books mentioned in It (15)
To Build a Fire by Jack London: “Frightened because he could now understand stories he had read, such as Jack London's "To Build a Fire," where people actually froze to death.”
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: “It's Frankenstein!" And so it was, it was the Frankenstein monster, with bolts coming out of its neck...”
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman: “books signed by writers long since dead (among the signed editions were Moby Dick and Whitman's Leaves of Grass)”
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville: “among the signed editions were Moby Dick and Whitman's Leaves of Grass; ... Ben Hanscom who had been so big he looked like a human version of Moby Dick”
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells: “Wells's The Time Machine the year before, first the Classics Comics version and then the whole book.”
The Three Billy Goats Gruff: “Miss Davies, the pretty young librarian, was reading "The Three Billy Goats Gruff."”
Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring: “not, however, some harmless comedy like Arsenic and Old Lace”
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious: “She glanced at the four kids distrustfully and then went back to her paperback of Peyton Place.”
Books of Blood by Clive Barker: “had snatched glimpses of their secret anatomies, down the passages of years? —Clive Barker, Books of Blood ... Books of Blood, Volume I, by Clive Barker.”
The Jar by Ray Bradbury: “the best damned horror story since Ray Bradbury's 'The Jar.'”
Poems by George Seferis: “"The Return of the Exile" from Poems by George Seferis.”
Collected Poems 1940-1978 by Karl Shapiro: “"Travelogue for Exiles" from Collected Poems 1940-1978 by Karl Shapiro.”
A Bird Came Down the Walk by Emily Dickinson: “A bird came down the Walk—He did not know I saw— ... —Emily Dickinson, "A Bird Came Down the Walk"”
Paterson by William Carlos Williams: —William Carlos Williams, Paterson
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens: “The distance is quite imaginary.' —Charles Dickens, David Copperfield”