It, also known as
Pennywise the Dancing Clown and
Robert "
Bob"
Gray, is the
title character and main
antagonist of
Stephen King's 1986
horror novel
It. "It" is a
shapeshifting entity who every three decades preys on the local children of
Derry, Maine, and, in order to kill them, takes the form of its victims' greatest and most terrifying
phobias. "It" also possesses a power to control people's actions to achieve evil aims and can take over a person's mind.