Undefined symbol

[hihoag]

hello i am sorta new to this site long time stephen king fan though and IT was probably my favorite book The question i have i have asked before in another thread 2 months ago but i never got an answer also when i emailed the webmaster he told me the answer was probably in the message board so sorry if it is somewhere but i cant find it so here goes To be more specific in the chapter of the ritual of Chüd it reads:"There was a mark on the door, and heaped at its foot was a pile of bones.Small bones.The bones of God only knew how many children.They had come to the place of It.The mark on the door,then:What is That?" Directly after this sentence is a picture of an oriental character that looks kinda like a F with a hat.Each character did see this as his or her greatest insecurity or fear ie Bills saw a paper boat,Richie saw a pair of glasses covering eyes,Ben saw a pile of old candy wrappers,Bev saw a fist,and henry bowers sees a black moon. Each of these vision is a representation of the individuals fear or more accurately a representation of how It portrays Itself to the children so yea it does seem that this symbol is the actual written embodiment of It.Now does anybody have an idea of what the symbol is?

[Bryan James]

I don't have a copy anymore. I have a nice bookstamp that embosses my contact info onto paper of the books I lend out, but I still never get them back.

You might want to try a Wikipedia or IMDB search online. There was a great and bad horror movie about 20 years ago called "C.H.U.D."

I think it stood for Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers. I've killed a few brain cells since my formative years, but that movie might be a good place to start digging.

~BJS

[caracalla]

I always thought that the symbol was It's given name and like It's physical form was just to horrific to be comprehended by the human mind, so a person looking straight at it sees the closest thing to it that they can comprehend. If I remember there were some similar ideas in From a Buick 8.