Stephen King’s IT [1986]
If its horror you crave then Stephen King’s IT packs it from cover to cover. In the 1986 publication, seven childhood friends are brought back together after almost three decades to battle an ominous entity that feeds on children and takes the form of their innermost fears. Although the entity’s true form is revealed at the end, it’s most common form is that of a clown known as Pennywise . However, to each of the friends it manifests as something different, a large bird, a leper, the mummy and even dead people. While the novel is in its core a horror story, it is also a coming of age story that deals with abuse, guilt, sex, love and basically everything we experience growing up. It is graphic, thrilling and at times disturbing and shocking especially when details of the friends’ childhood encounter with It. The sexual activity portrayed in the book in the final part, The Ritual of Chüd, is rather scandalously pedophilic and at times perverted especially when an eleven y...
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