- After the Flood (1957)
- After the Carnival (1984)
- Six Phone Calls (1985)
- Derry: The First Interlude
- Ben Hanscom Takes a Fall
- Bill Denbrough Beats the Devil (I)
- One of the Missing: A Tale From the Summer of '58
- The Dam In the Barrens
- Georgie's Room and the House On Neibolt Street
- Cleaning Up
- Derry: The Second Interlude
- The Reunion
- Walking Tours
- Three Uninvited Guests
- Derry: The Third Interlude
- The Apocalyptic Rockfight
- The Album
- The Smoke-Hole
- Eddie's Bad Break
- Another One of the Missing: The Death of Patrick Hockstetter
- The Bullseye
- Derry: The Fourth Interlude
- In the Watches of the Night
- The Circle Closes
- Under the City
- The Ritual of Chud
- Out
- Derry: The Final Interlude
- Epilogue: Bill Denbrough Beats the Devil (II)
Derry: The Third Interlude
The middle entry of our Trilogy of Narratives is considerably shorter than the previous one and feels much less personal. We are told the story of the Bradley Gang who are gunned down by Derry's everyday citizens one day, an act that Mike believes is what woke up Pennywise for what would be the the cycle of murders from 1929-30, climaxing in the fire at the Black Spot.
This story reminds us that there is something fundamentally wrong in Derry. The previous entry could be shrugged away as just an act of racism, which was certainly commonplace in 1930. This however, is a perfect illustration of a town having a strangely perverse history. It also is a nice way of bringing in Norbert Keene and Officer Nell, both of whom have had minor roles in the main story, and giving them more focus here. Every character that plays a tiny role in the big story has their own tangential story to tell. This makes the saga feel like a gigantic mythos rather than just a singular novel. It is larger than life!
Once again, there is absolutely nothing supernatural about the story until the last few pages when Keene mentions having spotted Pennywise and seems very nonchalant about what he's seen. Same as before: everything becomes strangely tied together.
This story reminds us that there is something fundamentally wrong in Derry. The previous entry could be shrugged away as just an act of racism, which was certainly commonplace in 1930. This however, is a perfect illustration of a town having a strangely perverse history. It also is a nice way of bringing in Norbert Keene and Officer Nell, both of whom have had minor roles in the main story, and giving them more focus here. Every character that plays a tiny role in the big story has their own tangential story to tell. This makes the saga feel like a gigantic mythos rather than just a singular novel. It is larger than life!
Once again, there is absolutely nothing supernatural about the story until the last few pages when Keene mentions having spotted Pennywise and seems very nonchalant about what he's seen. Same as before: everything becomes strangely tied together.