The post that was quoted here has been removedI agree, I think "It" is easily the most spine chilling horror story ever written...The film was just a cartoon-like comedy compared to the indescribable evil in the book. I read it many years ago and I still wake up sometimes with visions of "scaberous" faces, or some vile thing tearing a young man's head off "with a satisfied grunt" and the silky voice of Pennywise the clown telling me "when you're down here with us you'll float too." A nightmare on every page.