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70 Awesome Facts and Stories About Stephen King for his 70th Birthday
70 Reasons We Love Stephen King
Stephen King was born on Sept. 21, 1947, and to mark the legendary author's 70th birthday, EW has compiled a list of 70 random facts about "Uncle Steve" that are cause for celebration. Let's venture into the dark, which is lit today by a lot of birthday candles ...
The Books
By coincidence, 70-year-old King has published about 70 books. Rather than mention every title, however, we're going to hit them all here at once. We love Stephen King for every word, every page. "Books are uniquely portable magic," he once wrote. Amen.
Uncle Steve
Read enough personal encounters with him, and you see King really is who you expect him to be. He's more funny than scary. More generous than ominous. And he exalts in all the weirdness he likes to foist on his Constant Readers. Even his Victorian house in Bangor, Maine, has bats and gargoyles in the wrought iron gates. He knows what you love, and he serves it up with a smile.
What Scares Him?
King probably gets this question more than any other. The answer: um, you. Lots of you. "What scares me is when a whole bunch of [fans] are together. I was out one night in this area, and
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It (character)
Title character of Stephen King's 1986 novel
This article is about the Stephen King antagonist. Not to be confused with Cousin Itt.
Fictional character
It, also known as Pennywise, Robert 'Bob' Gray, and Pennywise the Dancing Clown, is a fictional character and the titular main antagonist in Stephen King's 1986 horror novel It. The character is an ancient, trans-dimensional malevolent entity who preys upon the children (and sometimes adults) of Derry, Maine, roughly every 27 years, using a variety of powers that include the ability of shapeshifting and manipulation of reality. During the course of the story, It primarily appears in the form of Pennywise the Dancing Clown. "The Losers Club" becomes aware of Pennywise's presence after it kills Bill Denbrough's little brother, Georgie.
King stated in a 2013 interview that he came up with the idea for Pennywise after asking himself what children feared "more than anything else in the world", and feeling that the answer was clowns.[1] King thought of a troll like the one in the children's tale "Three Billy Goats Gruff",[2] though he imagined it living in a sewer system rather than under a bridge.
The character was portrayed in its Pennywise form by Tim Curry in the 1990 televis