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On the back of Sam’s suggestion to spend a day at the beach, the eight head to Morecambe, seven miles west of the city and hopefully out of Pennywise’s reach. However, when Sam’s next idea to explore the abandoned theme park on the seafront goes awry, they’ll realise that no matter where they go, Pennywise will find them. And it’s only a matter of time before It devours them all. How are the losers going to escape this time? Or has their time finally run out…
Tom believes he’s safe. Or at least, in his own home. Developing the photographs from that day, he is sore but victorious after that epic rock battle across the train tracks with those bullies. Blinded by their triumph, by the adrenaline in his veins making him feel invincible, Tom has forgotten one crucial thing about …
Somehow, these eight unlikely losers have all found each other. If IT thought it could scare them into scattering, IT was wrong. Together, they’re stronger than ever before and in the face of high school bullies, they won’t back down. They’ve faced real nightmares now and a little rock war across the train tracks isn’t enough to scare them…But the question remains: how do they defeat IT? Perhaps Sam’s got the perfect plan…for once.
Erika knows real horror. She knew what it meant to be scared long before her encounter with the crone – It – in the woods. And while she doesn’t know much beyond the world of drugs, poverty and starvation, she does know for certain that the only thing that matters is taking care of her little sister. Of making sure Vicky didn’t end up like Erika, or worst, Enid, their eldest sister. Their dead sister. The only other thing Erika knows for certain is that ghostly voices in plugholes? The voices of the dead children murdered by It? That was something, a month ago, she could have never believed. But now she knows the truth. Now she’s stared into the eyes of real evil and she’s about to come face to face with it again…Will she be as lucky this time?
Dominic is yet to meet It but he doesn’t need to in order to believe. He trusts his friends, his best friend and boyfriend. He believes they all saw something – all fought something. It killed his brother. It’s the same thing that’s been killing all the children and it’s time someone put a stop to It. They know they can harm It and so now, they must find a way to kill It. With help from Emily, Dominic takes to the town library for answers. However, what he finds there might be more than he bargained for…
Elivia Spencer has never had many friends. But now, Elivia must face six new people. Six people who have also seen It. Will they believe her story of terror? How could they? She could hardly believe it herself. Elivia knows that her secret can no longer stay that way. And neither can Anna’s.
Monsters, ghouls and ghosts – it was all just fiction.
But It isn’t. And It’s coming. It’s coming for them all…
Tom’s been looking forward to his summer photography course at the university ever since he signed up. Even more so recently since all of his friends seemed to be losing their minds. A shapeshifting monster chasing them? Killing the children? It was absurd, but even Tom’s boyfriend, Dominic believes them. Tom needs a break. A week away from the hysteria. Paired with timid Elivia Spencer, a girl from the private school, on an assignment, Tom is reluctant at first. All rich people are the same in his eyes but he’s quick to learn that there’s something different about Elivia. And that afternoon, upon hearing the other kids talking about a secret tunnel beneath the campus, the two team together to investigate. But this adventure soon goes awry when Tom and Elivia realise they’re not the only ones in these tunnels. And as they delve deeper, they will soon understand the true meaning of fear. Maybe Tom will finally believe his friends’ tales of horror now he’s come face to face with his own nightmare…
Now, Erika, Will and Emily have all faced It. Dominic believes It’s the same thing killing the children. The same thing that killed his brother. Tom still isn’t sure. And Sam? He doesn’t believe a word. Even after listening to Emily and Will’s terrifying account of the Merman emerging from the font in the church, Sam can’t possibly believe it. So certain that monsters, ghouls and ghosts could never exist in this cold, callous, mundane world, Sam doesn’t fear the lone journey home after curfew through Williamson Park; the formidable park sat at the highest point of the city where the great Ashton Memorial resides. But his confidence is about to be shaken – his whole world is about to change when Sam comes face to face with his own worst nightmare. Something that petrifies him far more than his brutish father. Something that will haunt him for the rest of his life…if he survives the night.
Tom doesn’t believe his boyfriend’s tale of Erika and Emily’s brave escape from a monster in the forest. How could he? This wasn’t a film or book. This was the real world and in the real world, children will killed by murderous lunatics who were, as much as people tried to deny it, human.
Not monsters. Not creatures of the deep. And certainly not witches.
But upon talking to Emily Fox, who Tom trusts far more than ‘crazy Erika Waterstone’, he begins to question his perfect reality.
Emily, however, has no doubt that what she faced on Friday night with Erika was real and after being punished by her strict, pious guardian, Rupert, Emily must face an evening alone in the church – the last place she had faced something she couldn’t explain. She’s escaped its clutches twice – is her luck about to run out?
After another argument with her abusive mother, Erika finds herself homeless, not for the first time, and takes to the woods in Greaves to find some sanctuary. She’s not scared of the stories of drug addicts or the ‘Occult’ that are said to haunt these woods at night. Nor does she fear the ‘Legend of the Witch’; the tale of the vengeful Crone hellbent on making others suffer. But Erika is naive to believe that she’s the only soul in the woods tonight and she’ll be lucky to make it out alive…