- 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)
Three Uninvited Guests
I love this chapter; it's tight and moves the plot along nicely, and it ends leaving you rubbing your hands in anticipation. You have to marvel at King's epic scope, weaving three more plot threads into the gigantic mix, each of which will play a role in the finale to come.
We learn for the first time that Henry Bowers was blamed for Pennywise's murders in the summer of 1958 and that he has spent his adult life in two mental hospitals. It's interesting that Henry remembers perfectly everything that happened, unlike the Losers. Adult Henry is also quite different from his youthful counterpart; he is a coward scared of everything who sleeps with a night-light. He also seems smarter; possibly the most intelligent inmate at Juniper Hills. Interestingly, we never get the full story of what happened to Henry, Belch, and Victor in the sewers; we only catch glimpses. Henry has visions of Pennywise in the moon and is eventually visited by an apparition of Victor that tells him to go back to Derry and then helps him to escape. Henry gets past the guard Koontz (how kind of King to portray his rival author as a sadistic guard). Pennywise appears to Koontz as a clown with the head of a dog...which is admittedly campy.
Meanwhile, Tom Rogan learns of Beverly's whereabouts by beating up Kay McCall (it's odd seeing her turning up again after so many pages; the first time I read the book I was confused as to who she was and why King was introducing a new character so late in the book). Tom reveals just how much of a monster he is, threatening to murder Kay if she rats on him. He arrives at Bangor Airport at just the same that Audra does, and we get a short section about Audra's experience with a bossy and rude producer. Audra rents a car while Tom buys one in cash and steals a license plate, and the two end up staying in hotels next to one another, their cars parked nose to nose.
It is interesting that Myra Kaspbrak is the only spouse to not follow one of our heroes out to Derry, but presumably, the fact she was driving Al Pacino was her excuse.
And so the "Grownups" section of the book ends, setting up just the very beginnings of what will the be the third act of this tale...but we're not there yet!
We learn for the first time that Henry Bowers was blamed for Pennywise's murders in the summer of 1958 and that he has spent his adult life in two mental hospitals. It's interesting that Henry remembers perfectly everything that happened, unlike the Losers. Adult Henry is also quite different from his youthful counterpart; he is a coward scared of everything who sleeps with a night-light. He also seems smarter; possibly the most intelligent inmate at Juniper Hills. Interestingly, we never get the full story of what happened to Henry, Belch, and Victor in the sewers; we only catch glimpses. Henry has visions of Pennywise in the moon and is eventually visited by an apparition of Victor that tells him to go back to Derry and then helps him to escape. Henry gets past the guard Koontz (how kind of King to portray his rival author as a sadistic guard). Pennywise appears to Koontz as a clown with the head of a dog...which is admittedly campy.
Meanwhile, Tom Rogan learns of Beverly's whereabouts by beating up Kay McCall (it's odd seeing her turning up again after so many pages; the first time I read the book I was confused as to who she was and why King was introducing a new character so late in the book). Tom reveals just how much of a monster he is, threatening to murder Kay if she rats on him. He arrives at Bangor Airport at just the same that Audra does, and we get a short section about Audra's experience with a bossy and rude producer. Audra rents a car while Tom buys one in cash and steals a license plate, and the two end up staying in hotels next to one another, their cars parked nose to nose.
It is interesting that Myra Kaspbrak is the only spouse to not follow one of our heroes out to Derry, but presumably, the fact she was driving Al Pacino was her excuse.
And so the "Grownups" section of the book ends, setting up just the very beginnings of what will the be the third act of this tale...but we're not there yet!