IT - The Shadows Beneath

Summer 1989. Derry, Maine.
The sun's out. The drains are whispering. Something's hungry again.

Derry's always been a town that forgets what it shouldn't and remembers what it shouldn't have to. But some summers-the bad ones-it remembers too much.

Maddison Criss shows up in July wearing a pink dress and carrying secrets sharp enough to draw blood. Her twin brother Victor is still tangled up with Henry Bowers and the rest of the bad crowd, but Maddison? She's looking for something else. Maybe a way out. Maybe a way in. She finds it in the Losers Club-a patchwork gang of kids who know too much about monsters and not enough about healing. Not yet, anyway.

There's Sam Bowers too. Older brother of Henry. Quiet. Watchful. Hands that shake like they've done things they shouldn't. He keeps his distance, until he can't.

But Derry is waking up again. Pets go missing. People too. Black balloons float down storm drains that smell of rot and old metal. Voices echo in the pipes at night, saying your name in the voice of someone you loved. Or someone you lost.

And under it all-It waits. Still hungry. Still changing shape. Still knowing exactly what scares you most.

Together, Maddison and the Losers will face what crawls beneath the streets and inside their heads. They'll fight illusions that tear at the truth, ghosts wearing familiar faces, and fears that know them too well. And love-new, fragile, real-might just be the most dangerous thing of all.

Some will never be the same. But when you go down into the dark, something always comes back up with you. And in Derry... it remembers.

A story about the scars that shape us, the monsters that know our names,
and the summer where the drains ran red again.
Because in Derry, nothing stays buried for long.