Writer and actor Ron Riekki has won several screenplay awards including best sci-fi/fantasy from the International Family Film Festival, best comedy from the Los Angeles Film Awards and the Nuclear Pen Award from the GenreBlast Film Festival.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword (Joe Mynhardt)

Introduction (Ron Riekki)

Part One: The Novel

"He hits his fists against the post": Stuttering Bill, Trauma

and the Protective Power of the Imagination in Stephen King's It (Hayley Mitchell Haugen)

Seven Children and It: Stephen King's It as Children's Story (Cory R. Goehring)

Clowning Around: The Carnivalesque and Stephen King's

Novel It (Katherine A. Troyer)

Doing It: Sex and the Monster (Dominick Grace)

"The turtle can't help us": Evil, Enchantment and the Magic

of Faith in Stephen King's It (Gregory Stevenson)

Part Two: Television and Film

Changing Mike, Changing History: Erasing ­African-America

in It (2017) (Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. )

"Best Not to Look Back": Monstrosity, Medium and Genre

in Tommy Lee Wallace's It (1990) (June Pulliam)

Stephen King, Endings and the Unburdening of It (Jason V. Brock)

The Disturbing Appeal of Pennywise (Michelle Leigh Gompf)

Derry's Subterranean Carnival in Stephen King's It (Conny Lippert)

Patriarchy and Abject Horror in Stephen King's It: Young Beverly Marsh's Search for Subjectivity (Ralph Beliveau and Laura ­Bolf-Beliveau)

From Page to Screen: Troubled Domestic Space in the It Franchise (Rebecca Janicker)

The Truth Inside the Lie: It and the Evolution of the Serial Killer

(Rebecca Frost)

Wuh-We Do It: The Losers' Club and Collaborative Leadership

in It (André Loiselle)

The Clown Will Eat You Now (Brian W. Smith)

Appendix: Interview with Erik Junnola (Ron Riekki)

About the Contributors

Index