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It
"It," published by Stephen King in 1986, follows a group of childhood friends in the fictional town of Derry, Maine who confront a shape-shifting entity that typically appears as a sinister clown named Pennywise, first as children in the 1950s and again as adults decades later. At over 1,100 pages, the novel is one of King's longest works, and its structure alternates between the characters' childhood and adult timelines, exploring how childhood trauma and memory shape adult identity alongside its horror narrative. The novel's Pennywise the Dancing Clown became one of the most culturally recognizable horror figures ever created, significantly amplified by a widely watched 1990 television miniseries adaptation and later a hugely successful 2017 feature film, both of which introduced the character to new generations of audiences. It's combination of King's ambitious dual-timeline childhood-and-adulthood structure and Pennywise's status as one of horror fiction's most iconic villains has made it one of the most culturally significant horror novels ever published.
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Pet Sematary
"Pet Sematary," published by Stephen King in 1983, follows Dr. Louis Creed and his family after they move next to an ancient burial ground with the power to resurrect the dead, though anything buried there returns fundamentally, disturbingly changed. King has said he initially considered the novel too disturbing to publish and set the manuscript aside for years before eventually releasing it, largely due to the depth of grief and parental horror explored in the story's central premise involving the death of a young child. The novel drew directly on King's own family's real experience living near a busy highway in Maine, including a pet cemetery near their home and a close call involving one of King's own children, grounding the story's horror in genuinely lived personal anxiety. Pet Sematary's combination of King's initial reluctance to publish something he found too disturbing and its grounding in his own family's real experiences has made it one of the most emotionally harrowing horror novels ever written.
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