It Characters

Bill and George Denbrough’s father and Sharon Denbrough’s husband. He is a waste water electrician who sometimes helps to repair disruptions to Derry’s sewage system in the 1950s. He also lives in town during the ambush on the Bradley Gang in 1929.

Harold Gardener’s father. He is a neighbor of the Denbroughs who, in 1957, finds George Denbrough’s dismembered body near the sewage drain, wraps him in a quilt, and takes him back to the Denbroughs’ house.

A Derry cop and the son of Dave Gardener. He witnesses downtown Derry’s collapse and tells his wife that “the end of the world [has] come.”

A draftsman with an engineering firm in Bangor and the partner of Adrian Mellon.

A fellow officer on Derry’s police force and Harold Gardener’s partner.

A seventeen-year-old who is brought in for questioning due to his involvement in the murder of Adrian Mellon. Dubay has an IQ of 68 and left school at the age of sixteen. He also has an abusive stepfather.

A Derry police officer and Paul Hughes’s partner. He assists in questioning John “Webby” Garton about the assault and murder of Adrian Mellon.

The legal official who, along with Chief Andrew Rademacher, questions Christopher Unwin about his involvement in Adrian Mellon’s murder.

A Derry cop who breaks up a possible fight between John “Webby” Garton and Adrian Mellon at the Derry Fair.

Charles “Chick” Avarino’s partner on the Derry police force.

Patricia Uris’s parents. They initially disapprove of Stanley due to his lower-income background and his wish to open his own business while still a young man.

Richie Tozier’s travel agent. She makes the arrangements for his transportation from Los Angeles to Derry, Maine.

Owner of The Red Wheel, a bar that Ben Hanscom frequents in Nebraska.

A man who went into the Red Wheel on the night of his suicide. Ben Hanscom’s eyes, which appear haunted and distracted on the evening of May 28, 1985, remind the Red Wheel’s proprietor, Ricky Lee, of Arnold’s eyes on the night he committed suicide.

The barmaid at the Red Wheel who becomes concerned by Ben Hanscom’s drinking on the night of May 28, 1985.

Eddie Kaspbrak’s wife. Myra is described as a “huge” woman who, in both size and temperament, is very similar to Eddie’s mother, Sonia. Myra helps Eddie with his chauffeuring business, Royal Crest.

Eddie Kaspbrak’s mother. Sonia is obese, overprotective of Eddie, and a hypochondriac. Sonia uses the specter of illness as a tool to ensure Eddie’s co-dependency, due to Sonia’s fears of Eddie growing up and leaving her alone.

Patrick Hocksetter’s infant younger brother, whom Patrick suffocates with a pillow.

Bill Denbrough’s agent with whom he has a sexual relationship before meeting his future wife, Audra.

The head librarian at the Derry Public Library from 1914-1960. Carson helps Mike Hanlon to initiate his research into Derry’s history.

The owner of a Gulf station and the father of the deceased Betty Ripsom, who is his only child.

The only daughter of Mr. Ripsom and his wife. Betty is found on Outer Jackson Street just after Christmas in 1957. Her body is found “ripped wide open.”

One of Derry’s historians. He commits suicide by hanging.

A murder victim from Derry who is killed at the age of sixteen.

A three-year-old murder victim from Derry.

A boy whose body is discovered on July 15, 1958. Jimmy is a quiet child who wears glasses and likes to play Scrabble on rainy days. One day, while playing in the Barrens, the children unknowingly pass over his body, floating in the Canal.

A fourth-grader at Neibolt Street Church School whose body is discovered in the sewer. Beverly Marsh knew her. Henry Bowers is convicted of murdering her after her underwear is found tucked under his mattress.

The janitor at Derry Elementary School. He is the brother of Armando “Mandy” Fazio, the keeper at the town dump. Mr. Fazio warns Ben Hanscom to watch out for frost-bite shortly before Ben has his first vision of Pennywise the Clown on the frozen Canal.

The fifth-grade teacher at Derry Elementary School. Ben Hanscom is in her class. She is in her forties, Ben figures, and is as fond of Ben as he is of her.

The pretty young librarian who is reading the story of “The Three Billy Goats Gruff” when Ben Hanscom enters the Children’s Library one day during story hour.

Wife of Richard Macklin and mother of Edward and Dorsey Corcoran. Monica covers for Richard’s abuse of the boys. Her own relationship with Richard is violent, resulting in several police visits to their home, though Richard never hits Monica. Monica divorces Richard after he confesses to killing Dorsey.

The chief of the Derry Police in the 1950s who heads the investigations of the mysterious murders of that decade, as well Richard Macklin’s killing of his stepson, Dorsey Corcoran.

Edward Corcoran’s fifth-grade teacher at Derry Elementary School. She notices Eddie coming to school with bruises but is discouraged from saying anything due to the school’s fears that it will lose money during “tax appropriation time.”

A Derry police officer who speaks in “whiskey-roughened tones.” He is an Irish Catholic and is married to Maureen Nell. He dies around the same time that Derry collapses.

Richie Tozier’s parents. Wentworth is a dentist and Maggie quietly wishes that she were the mother of a little girl, due to her inability to understand Richie’s crude behavior.

Bill Denbrough’s new friend whom he meets at a speech class in Bangor. Bradley has a lisp. He is expelled from the Losers’ Club after calling Beverly Marsh a “cheater” during a game of pitching pennies.

A five-year-old girl who goes missing in February 1985. Police suspect that her father, Horst Winterbarger, whom Laurie’s mother accused of sexually abusing the girl during their custody battle, has kidnapped her and taken her to Florida.

A sixteen-year-old boy who goes missing in the same week that Laurie Ann Winterbarger disappears. Unlike Laurie, Dennis comes from a “wonderful family,” is an Honor Roll student, and plays football. The police conclude that he had every reason to stay in Derry, making his disappearance inexplicable.

Phil and Tony Tracker are lifelong bachelors and owners of a truck depot in Derry. They own a house on West Broadway considered to be the nicest house on the street. Sonia Kaspbrak suspects them of being gay for keeping such a nice and neat property.

A large man from the South with carroty red hair and pimples who picks on Will Hanlon due to his racism and resentment for Hanlon’s competence.

A black soldier who is present with Will Hanlon and Dick Hallorann when the Black Spot is burned down. He saves Will from being trampled during the stampede to escape the burning shack.

A boy from Derry who is killed in the 1980s by a fish-like creature, similar to the one that kills Edward Corcoran. He is found dead on 29 Neibolt Street with his legs gone. A postman finds him by seeing a hand sticking out from under the porch.

A hermit who lives on Route 7 in a shack. Chief Rademacher suspects him of killing John Feury. When asked if he’s killed anyone, Earl says that he killed many people during the war. This is taken as a confession and Earl is sent to Bangor Mental Health Facility.

The “counselors” at Juniper Hill, the facility for the criminally-insane where Henry Bowers is imprisoned. The guards are not allowed to carry billy clubs, so they carry rolls of quarters instead, which they use to hit inmates on the back of the neck.

The “counselor” at Juniper Hill whom Henry Bowers considers to be the cruelest of all. While guarding the Blue Ward where Henry is imprisoned, Koontz is confronted by It, who is transformed into a Doberman dog (the only thing Koontz fears), as It helps Henry escape.

One of the inmates in the Blue Ward who ends up at Juniper Hill after killing his mother and eating her brains. Pennywise the Clown transforms into his mother to frighten and upset Donlin, whose screams distract John Koontz while Henry Bowers escapes.

A pyromaniac and fellow inmate in the Blue Ward at Juniper Hill who maniacally repeats, “Try to set the night on fire!”, the refrain from The Doors’ song, “Light My Fire.”

The British producer of Attic Room—a film adaptation of one of Bill Denbrough’s novels, starring Audra Phillips and written by Bill.

Norbert Keene’s grandson. Andrew witnesses the collapse of part of downtown Derry, but he has smoked so much Colombian Red marijuana that he perceives it to be a hallucination.

The owner of Machen’s Sporting Goods. Lal dies in 1959. He waits on the men from the Bradley Gang when they go shopping for ammunition at his store. He also participates in the ambush that kills the gang.

Derry’s local sheriff. He is present during the ambush on the Bradley Gang. He also helps Will Hanlon to get justice after Buck Bowers destroys the chicken coop on the Hanlon farm.

Wife of Will Hanlon and mother of Mike Hanlon. She is a devout Baptist and originally from Texas.

An army officer who works with the Derry Town Council to control the Black Spot. Fuller is racist, and doesn’t want the black soldiers in Derry, but he also doesn’t want to shut down the Black Spot and anger the white patrons from town who go there.

A mentally-challenged high-school boy who joins Henry Bowers, Victor Criss, and “Belch” Huggins in bullying Mike Hanlon. He takes his nickname from a character of the same name in the Archie comics.

A woman whom Butch Bowers courts for eight years. She is “fat, forty, and usually filthy.” She farms beans, which are her “pride,” and cooks them for Butch and Henry Bowers.

A toothless 93-year-old man who tells Mike Hanlon the story of the affair of Claude Heroux and the Silver Dollar, a massacre committed by Heroux which Thoroughgood witnessed. Thoroughgood has a strong rural accent that makes it difficult for Mike to understand him.

A folklorist at the University of Maine who helps Mike Hanlon to collect historical records and old tales about Derry.

The chief “organizer” or “ringleader” of the union of lumbermen and a greatly admired figure. Hartwell is found floating face-down in the Kenduskeag River along with Amsel Bickford. His legs are dismembered and something is left “distended [in] his mouth, stuffing out his cheeks.”

Another one of the union of lumbermen’s “ringleaders” who is found decapitated and floating face-down in the Kenduskeag river, along with Davey Hartwell. Like Hartwell, he has a paper with the word “union” pinned to the back of his shirt.

Tom Rogan’s father. He commits suicide by drinking “a gin-and-lye cocktail,” leaving Tom in charge of his brother and sisters and vulnerable to his mother’s abuse if he does not look after them satisfactorily.

A timber baron who once lived on West Broadway. Bowie is a devout churchgoer and a deacon, as well as president of Derry’s White Legion of Decency chapter.

A firemen with the Derry Fire Department, and one of the Clark twins Bill Denbrough, Ben Hanscom, Beverly Marsh, and Richie Tozier attend school with. Calvin is electrocuted almost instantly after stepping on a live fallen power line.

A woman who is killed when “an ancient gear-wheel [catapults] from her toilet along with a gout of sewage.” The gear-wheel goes through her shower door and hits her in the throat.

Cheryl Lamonica’s younger brother. He is the nurse who attends to Mike Hanlon at the Derry Home Hospital. Under the influence of It, he attempts to kill Mike in his hospital bed with a deadly shot.

A janitor at Wally’s Bar and an alcoholic. While sweeping up at the bar, all of the beer taps turn on spontaneously, running not only beer but chunks of hair and flesh. After seeing greenish smoke drift out of the cupboard doors, he flees both the bar and Derry.

Aloysius Nell’s wife who witnesses his death and gives him his last rites herself, as the telephone is out of order and she can’t call their priest.

A retired doctor who lives on West Broadway for fifty years and is killed by a flying manhole cover, which decapitates him while he goes out for his regular two-mile morning walk.

An old woman whom Bill Denbrough sees in the street after Derry begins to collapse. She and Bill wave at each other because he remembers how her sister used to babysit him and George. Mrs. Nelson’s presence brings Bill some comfort.

Manager of the Aladdin Theater until 1973. He is hurt when a section of bleachers collapses at Bassey Park during a horse race.

The police officer who finds Chief Andrew Rademacher dead after the tramp-chair in the attic falls through the roof of the chief’s office and directly onto him.

Eddie Kaspbrak’s doctor. Mr. Keene accuses him of being weak in the face of Sonia Kaspbrak’s hypochondria.

The shopkeeper at the Costello Street Market. He tries to break up the fight between Eddie Kaspbrak and Henry Bowers, but Henry pushes him and threatens him with physical harm if he does not go back inside the store.