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"A landmark in American literature."– "Chicago Sun-Times"

" 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"

"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"

"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."– "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"