THE LOSERS ARE STILL LOSING, BUT STANLEY URIS IS FINALLY AHEAD.

I think what was here before is still here... the thing that has shown up every twenty-seven years or so. Sometimes it comes a little sooner, sometimes a little later... but it always comes... It always comes back, you see. It.

Want a balloon?

stop now before i kill you
a word to the wise from your friend
PENNYWISE

For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even crying . . . but alive. Safe. Then he pushed the thought away. Its charm was deadly, its comfort fatal.

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up