Please help, Is IT dead?

**Tiny** · June 3rd, 2011

I have come to believe (Hope) that Mr. Joe King will be 'Authorized' to carry on the SK. multi-verse's . I hope Stephen Choses someone.

**bluesology** · July 7th, 2011

I believe that It was killed at the end of the book.

However, as others have pointed out, I agree with the possibility of one of the offspring escaping out from under Ben's heel. My personal opinion is that

**CaptainClaudius** · July 20th, 2011

In the physical sense of being dead then It is physically dead. However, I would argue that the part of It that existed in the Macroverse remained there, perhaps as some sort of physic shadow just as the turtle was still there. Hypothetically speaking if one were to travel to the Macroverse some part of It would still be there. I always thought that It existed in two parts: physically in the world and in the abstract of the Macroverse, so the physical part of It is dead but I think a shadow of It still resides in the Macroverse.

**JohnDalglish** · July 20th, 2011

Hi,

Where is Robert Grey when you need him?

Long days and pleasant nights

**The Nameless** · July 24th, 2011

I think the fact that even Mike started to forget after "killing" IT 2nd time round, and how everything that he wrote about IT in his journals started to fade means that IT is dead and all of IT's evil hold on Derry has been released. The way I see it, if any of IT's evil was still around, then Mike, as long as he was in Derry, would still be unable to forget. The fact that they all started to forget each other so soon after the 2nd killing, to me, says that IT is gone and wont come back.

However, IT did say IT was immortal, whether or not IT actually was, or just thought IT was, only Mr. King can tell us.

**Ahhcrap** · December 21st, 2011

Originally Posted by dwalters

Now THAT is a great idea. I know King probably would prefer not to come back to this story/character, but the history that Mike dug up was so rich I could totally imagine a series of short stories on this.

The 1632 series has a bunch of offshoots written by fans and are published together (the best of them) . . . I wonder if Mr King would allow something like that. Or to invite other established authors to do it for him (Such as Peter Straub). It would allow for more diversity I think and would satisfy us readers.

**muskrat** · December 21st, 2011

It's gonna stay dead, but Derry lives on. I'd like to read a big old Derry epic to end all Derry books, sorta like what he did for Castle Rock in Needful Things. Not that I'd want there to be a last Derry book, but if King wrote one, it'd be boss and bitchin.

Maybe the citizens of Derry start turning into slow mutants, beep-beep, no stinkin badges...sorry, just geekin out along the beam.

**The Good Guy** · December 27th, 2011

I personaly think IT's dead. For one, IT begged for it's life while it fought the losers and if I recall, Audra (Bills Wife) awoke from her Catatonic state of mind. Who knows though.

If it where alive, would that mean that five losers would have to go back and fight it again when there like 60/70?

**cbenee** · February 2nd, 2012

well Pennywise was seen in Tommyknockers

And IT's aura in Insomnia

So when are those books set in releation to IT?

**Sungrey** · February 12th, 2012

Perhaps the destruction of the Spider - It's primary physical manifestation in "this" universe - means It was banished once and for all but not killed, since It's true essence is a being of light that exists in the macroverse.

As far as a sequel with one of It's offspring, Ben tells Bill and the others he thinks he smashed all of the eggs and killed all of the little spiders. He, and we, are not 100 percent certain.