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Welcome to Derry, Maine ...
It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real ...
They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them can withstand the force that has drawn them back to Derry to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name.
It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real ...
They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them can withstand the force that has drawn them back to Derry to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name.
1184 pages, Paperback
First published September 15, 1986
About the author
Stephen King
2,138 books902k followersStephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged.
Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. He graduated in 1970, with a B.A. in English and qualified to teach on the high school level. A draft board examination immediately post-graduation found him 4-F on grounds of high blood pressure, limited vision, flat feet, and punctured eardrums.
He met Tabitha Spruce in the stacks of the Fogler Library at the University, where they both worked as students; they married in January of 1971. As Stephen was unable to find placement as a teacher immediately, the Kings lived on his earnings as a laborer at an industrial laundry, and her student loan and savings, with an occasional boost from a short story sale to men's magazines.
Stephen made his first professional short story sale ("The Glass Floor") to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967. Throughout the early years of his marriage, he continued to sell stories to men's magazines. Many were gathered into the Night Shift collection or appeared in other anthologies.
In the fall of 1971, Stephen began teaching English at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels.
Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. He graduated in 1970, with a B.A. in English and qualified to teach on the high school level. A draft board examination immediately post-graduation found him 4-F on grounds of high blood pressure, limited vision, flat feet, and punctured eardrums.
He met Tabitha Spruce in the stacks of the Fogler Library at the University, where they both worked as students; they married in January of 1971. As Stephen was unable to find placement as a teacher immediately, the Kings lived on his earnings as a laborer at an industrial laundry, and her student loan and savings, with an occasional boost from a short story sale to men's magazines.
Stephen made his first professional short story sale ("The Glass Floor") to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967. Throughout the early years of his marriage, he continued to sell stories to men's magazines. Many were gathered into the Night Shift collection or appeared in other anthologies.
In the fall of 1971, Stephen began teaching English at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels.
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January 12, 2024
3🌟
（人物形象3+恐怖紧张氛围5+写作水平引人入胜4+故事情节3+总体阅读体验3）/5=4.5🌟
（人物形象3+恐怖紧张氛围5+写作水平引人入胜4+故事情节3+总体阅读体验3）/5=4.5🌟
March 10, 2025
3.5 很难评。虽然很长但是确实很entertaining。就算是归结于时代的局限性，但里面的racism, misogyny, child pornography, 男凝，各种莫名其妙的balls and erections还是令人非常不适。后来意识到当成故事会看，只倾听不评判（）就和解了。
August 18, 2024
我看到的是作者对于童年的乡愁
August 16, 2026
終於看完這本一千一百多頁的書了！雖然書本結尾沒有開頭那麼戲劇化與令人印象深刻，倒也很佩服作者塑造劇情與人物的功力。書裡提到許多課題如友情、愛情、親情、種族、性別、霸凌等等，藉著小孩與成人的各種視角切換，也讓讀者蠻有一番體會。能夠看完這麼多頁也是一種人生成就吧🧐
August 13, 2020
牠（上）
真的翻開書才意識到我真的沒有讀過史蒂芬金，一本都沒有。我一直以為我至少看過魔女嘉莉，但其實沒有XD
之前看了《牠》的電影版，算喜歡，想說看一下小說好了……嗯，某方面來說，這真的有夠少年故事欸，敘事很厲害也是真的，推進故事的方式相當厲害。
就算其他全部不論，單就敘事手法就值得一讀。
然後其實不恐怖嘛完全不是恐怖故事（真誠）
牠（下）
好啦我看完了。
看完小說的確會覺得電影是很不錯的改編呢……核心略有不同，但抓得算準。
之前有聽說小說裡貝芙莉把所有人帶出來的方式，微妙的覺得可以理解，但不喜歡，只是這個不太喜歡多少也有點矛盾就是了。感覺蠻奇特的XD
但，的確蠻好看，我想我很喜歡那些對於童年以及恐懼的思索吧。
真的翻開書才意識到我真的沒有讀過史蒂芬金，一本都沒有。我一直以為我至少看過魔女嘉莉，但其實沒有XD
之前看了《牠》的電影版，算喜歡，想說看一下小說好了……嗯，某方面來說，這真的有夠少年故事欸，敘事很厲害也是真的，推進故事的方式相當厲害。
就算其他全部不論，單就敘事手法就值得一讀。
然後其實不恐怖嘛完全不是恐怖故事（真誠）
牠（下）
好啦我看完了。
看完小說的確會覺得電影是很不錯的改編呢……核心略有不同，但抓得算準。
之前有聽說小說裡貝芙莉把所有人帶出來的方式，微妙的覺得可以理解，但不喜歡，只是這個不太喜歡多少也有點矛盾就是了。感覺蠻奇特的XD
但，的確蠻好看，我想我很喜歡那些對於童年以及恐懼的思索吧。
棄
October 3, 2015（2011年皇冠回收版）
此書於2011年出版，旋即遭網友對釘後踢爆漏譯頗多，根本只是拿1987年皇冠出版社無版權時期的舊譯本，稍作校對修改就大著膽子打著「全譯本」的旗號出版，引發書友同聲韃伐。不多久，皇冠便宣佈下架，另找穆卓芸重新翻譯，經年後才於隔年年底正式再以「全新譯本」分上下兩冊重新出版，並可憑舊書換新書，成功平息一次「偽全譯本」廣告不實的醜聞。
此書於2011年出版，旋即遭網友對釘後踢爆漏譯頗多，根本只是拿1987年皇冠出版社無版權時期的舊譯本，稍作校對修改就大著膽子打著「全譯本」的旗號出版，引發書友同聲韃伐。不多久，皇冠便宣佈下架，另找穆卓芸重新翻譯，經年後才於隔年年底正式再以「全新譯本」分上下兩冊重新出版，並可憑舊書換新書，成功平息一次「偽全譯本」廣告不實的醜聞。
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