Connections to IT

[isolde46]

Derry Maine is the locale
Mike Hanlon makes a comeback


and there are definately more. while i was reading i kept coming across things that were referenced in IT first. Does anyone remember any more?

[strange]

Ralph sees a weird aura coming from a manhole, theres mentions of the events with the guy being killed at the bridge and the Crimson King mentions shapeshifting is a time honoured tradition in Derry. Was Insomina set after It? I've never read IT but no about it in parts becuase Ed's ring falls into the sewer. could that have a connection?

[CruelPuppet]

Yeah, Insomnia takes place sometime in th 90's. Present-day IT took place in 1985.

-They say that one of the 7 kids (Hanscom?) was the architect for a buildings.
-Ed's ring falls into the sewer and the narrator says lots of things in Derry that go down the sewer turn up again.
-They mention the Aladdin theatre.
-They make lots of references to the storm of '85, which was the earthquake caused by IT's death.
-They mentioned the name Butch Bowers at one point, the bully from IT (or was it his dad?)

[Ted Brautigan]

I just started reading this book about 2 days ago and in the prologue when Ralph sees crazy Ed D. yell at landscaper guy and says "Baby killer" it starts getting stormy and then there is a mention of a storm a couple of years back that sunk the downtown which is of course the end of IT. And in the first chapter Ralph reads books on insomnia which Mike Hanlon gave him.

[~Ally~]

Hi guys .

I am not sure how much "King" you have read, but in some way or another you will find almost every book has a connection with another story, whether in the background synopsis or simply a character mention.
That is the beauty of Uncle Steve's universe. The people and the places to him are real and that is how he portrays them to us, his constant readers.
I love reading a story and recognising an old character from another book, always makes it feel very personal.

[Nero]

Hi guys .

I am not sure how much "King" you have read, but in some way or another you will find almost every book has a connection with another story, whether in the background synopsis or simply a character mention.
That is the beauty of Uncle Steve's universe. The people and the places to him are real and that is how he portrays them to us, his constant readers.
I love reading a story and recognising an old character from another book, always makes it feel very personal.

For example, the child's shoe that Ralph finds in the little bald evil doctor's lair, is from Gage Creed in Pet Sematary.

I urge you to follow the... web... of connections from book to book, but watch out you'll probably find more than one spider lurking out there

[Daniel Lee Severn]

Insomnia references the "deadlights" as well.

[bluesology]

One of the cops is the grandson of officer Nell, the cop who found the loser's club making their dam. In Insomnia, Roberts goes into the same second hand store where Stuttering Bill bought the bike as an adult. Tons of references to the flood that almost destroyed the town. Lots of references to common places, like the Barrens and Niebold Street. Also, there are a number of references to what Mike Hanlon talked about quite a bit - about how under the surface, there was something not right about Derry, how the town seemed to have almost a kind of sickness