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2026 STEPHEN KING ANNUAL: IT - 40th Anniversary in FULL COLOR! Celebrating forty year’s of Stephen King's…IT Written and Edited by Dave Hinchberger. Cover and Interior art by Glenn Chadbourne. Featuring the only on set film 1990 interview with Tim Curry! The Stephen King Annual with articles, interviews, hundreds of illustrations, photos, and a 52-week Illustrated Calendar of Facts and Triva! Presenting this year’s theme celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Stephen King’s IT in novel, film, and TV. IT was released by Viking Press in 1986. Publisher’s Weekly listed it as the best-selling book in the United States for 1986. For a novel that came in at 1,138 pages that is a lot of hardcovers to sell in one year. In 1990 IT became a two-part mini-series on ABC starring Tim Curry. In 2017 and 2019 IT Chapter One and Chapter Two were released in theaters and became the highest horror film franchise earning over 1.2 billion dollars world-wide, for the two films combined. In October of 2025 HBO Max premieres an original story, IT: Welcome to Derry in a nine-episode series. We help celebrate the 40th anniversary of the novel with this year’s theme of the 2026 Stephen King Annual: IT Featured Guests and Articles Award-winning artist Glenn Chadbourne’s original wrap-around cover exclusively made for this year’s Stephen King Annual as well as original artwork featured throughout this 250-page full-color hardcover. Glenn Chadbourne’s cover art features Pennywise in the sewers of Derry in a wrap-around cover. Introduction: IT Happens - Dave Hinchberger BANGOR BEWARE! How Stephen King Moved to Bangor in 1980 to Write IT - Vincent Neyt Pennywise in the flesh: Tim Curry Unexpurgated Interview On the Set of Stephen King’s IT 1990. First time published in its entirety - Steve Newton Stephen King’s IT – The Miniseries (1990) - L.L. Soares Through Blood-Tinted Glasses IT, Time and Again - Kevin Quigley IT: Chapter One and Chapter Two, the Celluloi