IT

1957–1958

For the duration of a heavy rainstorm in derry, maine, six-yr-old george "georgie" denbrough is chasing a paper boat down a gutter. The boat is washed down a hurricane drain to the dismay of georgie, who had obtained the boat as a gift from his older brother invoice. Peering into the drain, georgie sees a couple of glowing yellow eyes. Startled, georgie is all at once confronted through a man dressed in a silver clown in shape who introduces himself as "mr. Bob grey," a.Ok.A. "pennywise the dancing clown." pennywise gives georgie a balloon which he carefully refuses; but, the clown entices georgie to attain into the drain to retrieve his boat and then rips his arm off, leaving the boy in the gutter to bleed to dying.

The following june, ben hanscom, an obese 11 12 months antique boy, is harassed by using a gang of bullies led with the aid of henry bowers. On the remaining day of school, hanscom hides from his tormentors inside the barrens, where he befriends eddie kaspbrak, a hypochondriac boy who believes he has bronchial asthma, and "stuttering bill" denbrough, george's elder brother who suffers from a stutter and rides on a rusty motorcycle named "silver." the three boys later befriend fellow misfits richie tozier, stanley uris and beverly marsh, who finally consult with themselves as "the losers membership." because the summer attracts on, the losers understand that they have each had an come across with a reputedly omniscient, interdimensional shapeshifting demonic entity that takes the shape of whatever they fear the most: ben as a mummy; eddie as a leper; invoice as george's ghost; richie as a werewolf; stan as  drowned boys and beverly as a fountain of blood spurting from her rest room sink. Because of the unknown beginning of the monster, the losers confer with the creature as "it" and link it with a sequence of new child murders, such as that of edward "eddie" corcoran who's killed by using the monster in the form of the gill-man. In the meantime, an increasingly more unhinged and sadistic henry bowers starts focusing his attention on his ethnic neighbor, mike hanlon and his father. Henry kills mike's dog and chases the terrified boy into the barrens, where he befriends the other losers. Mike tells the losers that he become attacked with the aid of it in the shape of a flesh-eating chicken and they realise thru mike's photo ebook that it has been round for masses of years. The losers begin to suspect that it has control over derry due to the quantity of unsolved disappearances and violent tragedies that move disregarded or seem forgotten by the adults in the town. One afternoon towards the end of summer season henry and his gang initiate a rock fight with the losers within the barrens. The bullies are left defeated and embarrassed; an injured henry swears revenge on the losers earlier than departing. After further encounters of it inside the form of pennywise and numerous different manifestations, the losers assemble a makeshift american-indian smokehole which richie and mike use to hallucinate it's origins. In doing so they find out that it got here to derry tens of millions of years before in an asteroid-like impact and that each 27 years it awakens from a slumber underneath the town's sewers, typically after a few kind of horrible occasion or tragedy, to feed on children for a length of 12–sixteen months.

In late july, eddie is hospitalized after an assault by means of henry bowers and numerous of his buddies. Spying on them, beverly witnesses one of the bullies, patrick hockstetter, seeking to empty a fridge which he had been using to trap and kill injured animals, handiest to be killed via it within the form of flying bloodsucking leeches. Later, the losers find out a message from it written in patrick's blood warning them that it'll kill them. After eddie is released from the health center with a broken arm, ben makes two silver slugs out of a silver dollar, believing that silver will damage it. At this factor the narrative modifications and "it" informs the reader that it existed at first in a void between our universe and others, in a measurement referred to as the macroverse. It boasts to the reader that it's far advanced to whatever on earth and confirms that it chooses to prey on children as it believes their fears are less complicated to interpret in a bodily form, which it claims is corresponding to "salting the beef".

The kids go back to the residence on neibolt road in which eddie, invoice, and richie had formerly encountered it and it assaults them within the form of a werewolf. Beverly shoots a slug from bill's slingshot at the werewolf, injuring it, and causing it to escape again to the sewers. It, now seeing the losers as a chance, manipulates the thoughts of henry bowers, making him kill his violent alcoholic father and providing him with a switchblade. Henry and his  closest pals, victor "vic" criss and reginald "belch" huggins, follow the losers into the sewers with the purpose of killing them; however, it assaults the 3 bullies inside the form of frankenstein's monster, ripping vic's head off and mutilating belch's face. Henry, pushed insane, chases the losers and receives lost. He ultimately washes out of the sewers into a nearby river and is blamed for all the toddler murders. Meanwhile, bill discovers the "ritual of chüd," an ancient ritual that permits him to enter the macroverse to confront it. At some stage in the ritual bill encounters mataurin, an historic dweller and the writer of the universe who explains that it is able to handiest be defeated in the course of a struggle of wills. Invoice enters the monster's thoughts through the ritual of chüd and discovers that it is real form is a mass of destructive orange lights which it refers to as the "deadlights". With the assist of mataurin, invoice is capable of defeat it and send it again to its shut eye. After the warfare, the losers wander away within the sewers till beverly has intercourse with all of the boys to carry solidarity again to the institution.[2] the losers then swear a blood oath to return to derry should it go back in the future.