Shawn Van Horn has been a Senior Features Author for Collider since 2022 with a focus on horror, and 90s TV and movies.
The Big Picture In 1986, Stephen King was already a household name, a prolific master of horror ever since his debut novel, Carrie, in 1974. 12 years later, he released his most shocking book, It. Set in the fictional town of Derry, Maine, like many of King's stories, It is at once a coming-of-age story and a terrifying fright fest about a killer clown named Pennywise.
Stephen King created Pennywise based on those fears, but what made him especially scary were two things: One, Pennywise is not a man. For much of the novel, we don't know exactly what Pennywise is, but we know he's not human and so, can not be defeated by conventional means. He is an otherworldly shapeshifter who becomes what we fear most, and who lives to feed on that fear. That's bad enough, but in It, the tastiest prey for Pennywise is children.
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