This review is spoiler-free.
Stephen King's IT is a famously hefty tome, clocking in at well over 1,100 pages. But while most readers remember that King's tale of kids battling an evil clown from another dimension takes place over a couple of different time zones – the 1950s and the 1980s – the story stretches back much further than that. We learn that the entity known as Pennywise has been lurking beneath the streets of one small American town for centuries, periodically awakening to cause chaos before slumbering for another 27 years or so.
