“A landmark in American literature.”
— Chicago Sun-Times
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It will overwhelm you…Characters so real you feel you are reading about yourself…scenes to be read in a well-lit room only.”
— Los Angeles Times
“The indisputable King of Horror.”
— Time Magazine
“A mesmerizing odyssey of terror…King writes like one possessed, never cheats the reader, always gives full measure…He is brilliant…dark and sinister.”
— The Washington Post Book World
“Vintage King…a magnum opus of terror…just a glance at the first few pages, and you can’t put this novel aside.”
— St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“A great scary book…a nightmare roller-coaster…packed with more chills than a Frigidaire… ‘It’ turns out to be the monster-dread in us all, the one that refuses to go away.”
— San Francisco Chronicle
“Epic…gargantuan…breathlessly accelerating suspense… King is our great storyteller…I imagine him as a possessed figure rocking over a smoking word processor, hunting for a beat his sentences can dance to, pounding the shocks and scares like a rock organist laying down the power chords.”
— Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
“A ghoul’s delight…a good old-fashioned chill and shiver fest…as creepy as the finest of that genre.”
— Kansas City Star
“ King’s most ambitious project…reads as if written in a white heat!”
— San Jose Mercury News
“IT exhibits the potato chip syndrome – quite simply, you can’t read just one page and stop…It is in this novel that King comes out of the closet, a closet jammed and crowded with his own monsters.”
— Houston Chronicle
“Compulsively readable.”
— Fort Worth Star Telegram
“King’s most mature work.”
— St. Petersburg Times
“Chock-full of spooky stuff…a sprawling scare-fest that defines King’s recurring themes and adds a new set of ambitions to the mix.”
— The Philadelphia Inquirer
