IT

The indisputable King of Horror. --Time Magazine 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 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 King's most ambitious project...reads as if written in a white heat! --San Jose Mercury News Compulsively readable. --Fort Worth Star Telegram King's most mature work. --St. Petersburg Times A landmark in American literature. --Chicago Sun-Times 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 A ghoul's delight...a good old-fashioned chill and shiver fest...as creepy as the finest of that genre. --Kansas City Star 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 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 It will overwhelm you...Characters so real you feel you are reading about yourself...scenes to be read in a well-lit room only. --Los Angeles Times