As Stephen King fans eagerly anticipate the arrival of It: Welcome to Derry , a new HBO series developed by the creators of the recent It movies, including director Andy Muschietti, here’s a reminder that it’s not the first series to expand King’s horror world with original stories .

While Derry riffs on flashbacks from the 1986 book to build a history for Pennywise’s reign of terror , the Hulu series Castle Rock also zeroed in on a picturesque yet cursed part of Maine explored in King’s many works. While the two shows will no doubt have many differences between them— Castle Rock was an almost entirely original creation; Derry draws from a specific novel as well as two movies—we’re anticipating similar tales of small-town terror and dread, with background characters

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