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Stephen KingITHodder & StoughtonLONDON SYNDEY AUCKLAND TORONTOBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication DataKing, Stephen, 1947 -It.I. Title 813'.54[F] PS3561.I483ISBN 0-340-36477-7Copyright (c) 1986 by Stephen King. First printed 1986. Third impression October 1986. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Printed in Great Britain for Hodder and Stoughton Limited, Mill Road, Dunton Green, Sevenoaks, Kent by The Garden City Press Limited, Letchworth, Herts. Photoset by Rowland Phototypesetting Limited, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Hodder and Stoughton Editorial Office: 47 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3DP.Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint excerpts from the following copyrighted material:'My Town' by Michael Stanley. (c) 1983 by Bema Music Co./Michael Stanley Music Co.'The Return of the Exile' from Poems by George Seferis. Translation copyright (c) 1960 by Rex Warner. Reprinted by permission of David R. Godine, Publisher, Inc.'My My Hey Hey' by Neil Young and Jeff Blackburn. (c) 1979 Silver Fiddle. Used by permission of Warner Bros. Ltd. All rights reserved.Paterson by William Carlos Williams. Copyright (c) 1946, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1958. Copyright (c) Florence Williams, 1963. Reprinted by permission of Penguin Books Ltd.'No Surrender,' 'Glory Days,' and 'Born in the U.S.A.' by Bruce Springsteen. (c) 1984 BruceSpringsteen. ASCAP. All rights reserved.'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' words and music by Norman Whitfield and Barren Strong. (c) 1966 Jobete Music Co., Inc. Used by permission. International copyright secured. All rights reserved.'The Rubberband-Man' by Tom Bell and Linda Creed. 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Used with permission.This book is gratefully dedicated to my children.My mother and my wife taught me how to be aman. My children taught me how to be free.NAOMI RACHEL KING, at fourteen;JOSEPH HILLSTROM KING, at twelve;OWEN PHILIP KING, at seven.Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and thetruth of this fiction is simple enough: the magicexists.S.K.'This old town been home long as I remember This town gonna be here long after I'm gone. East side west side take a close look 'round her You been down but you're still in my bones.'-The Michael Stanley Band'Old friend, what are you looking for?After those many years abroad you comeWith images you tendedUnder foreign skiesFar away from your own land.'-George Seferis'Out of the blue and into the black.'-Neil YoungCONTENTSPART 1: THE SHADOW BEFORE1 After the Flood (1957)2 After the Festival (1984)3 Six Phone Calls (1985)Derry: The First InterludePART 2: JUNE OF 19584 Ben Hanscom Takes a Fall5 Bill Denbrough Beats the Devil - I6 One of the Missing: A Tale from the Summer of '587 The Dam in the Barrens8 Georgie's Room and the House on Neibolt Street9 Cleaning UpDerry: The Second InterludePART 3: GROWNUPS10 The Reunion11 Walking Tours12 Three Uninvited GuestsDerry: The Third InterludePART 4: JULY OF 195813 The Apocalyptic Rockfight14 The Album15 The Smoke-Hole16 Eddie's Bad Break17 Another One of the Missing:The Death of Patrick Hockstetter18 The BullseyeDerry: The Fourth InterludePART 5: THE RITUAL OF CHUD19 In the Watches of the Night20 The Circle Closes21 Under the City22 The Ritual of Child23 OutDerry: The Last InterludeEPILOGUE:BILL DENBROUGH BEATS THE DEVIL - IIPART 1THE SHADOW BEFORE'They begin!The perfections are sharpenedThe flower spreads its colored petalswide in the sunBut the tongue of the beemisses themThey sink back into the loamcrying out-you may call it a crythat creeps over them, a shiveras they wilt and disappear . . . . '-William Carlos Williams,Paterson"Born down in a dead man's town"- Bruce SpringsteenC H A P T E R 1After the Flood (1957)1The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years - if it ever did end - began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.The boat bobbed, listed, righted itself again, dived bravely through treacherous whirlpools, and continued on its way down Witcham Street toward the traffic light which marked the intersection of Witcham and Jackson. The three vertical lenses on all sides of the traffic light were dark this afternoon in the fall of 1957, and the houses were all dark, too. There had been steady rain for a week now, and two days ago the winds had come as well. Most sections of Derry had lost their power then, and it was not back on yet.A small boy in a yellow slicker and red galoshes ran cheerfully along beside the newspaper boat. The rain had not stopped, but it was finally slackening. It tapped on the yellow hood of the boy's slicker, sounding to his ears like rain on a shed roof . . . a comfortable, almost cozy sound. The boy in the yellow slicker was George Denbrough. He was six. His brother, William, known to most of the kids at Derry Elementary School (and even to the teachers, who would never have used the nickname to his face) as Stuttering Bill, was at home, hacking out the last of a nasty case of influenza. In that autumn of 1957, eight months before the real horrors began and twenty-eight years before the final showdown, Stuttering Bill was ten years old.Bill had made the boat beside which George now ran. He had made it sitting up in bed, his back propped against a pile of pillows, while their mother played Fur Elise on the piano in the parlor and rain swept restlessly against his bedroom window.About three-quarters of the way down the block as one headed toward the intersection and the dead traf... 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