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2026 STEPHEN KING ANNUAL:
IT 40th Anniversary - in FULL COLOR!

2025 THEME: IT / Pennywise

Celebrating forty year’s of Stephen King's…IT

Written and Edited by Dave Hinchberger.

Cover and Interior art by Glenn Chadbourne.

Featuring many authors and guests.

The Stephen King Annual with articles, interviews, hundreds of illustrations, photos, and a 52-week Illustrated Calendar of Facts and Triva!

Presenting this year’s theme celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Stephen King’s IT in novel, film, and TV.

IT was released by Viking Press in 1986. Publisher’s Weekly listed it as the best-selling book in the United States for 1986. For a novel that came in at 1,138 pages that is a lot of hardcovers to sell in one year. In 1990 IT became a two-part mini-series on ABC starring Tim Curry. In 2017 and 2019 IT Chapter One and Chapter Two were released in theaters and became the highest horror film franchise earning over 1.2 billion dollars world-wide, for the two films combined. In October of 2025 HBO Max premieres an original story, IT: Welcome to Derry in a nine-episode series. We help celebrate the 40th anniversary of the novel with this year’s theme of the 2026 Stephen King Annual: IT

Featured Guests and Articles

• Award-winning artist Glenn Chadbourne’s original wrap-around cover exclusively made for this year’s Stephen King Annual as well as original artwork featured throughout this 250-page full-color hardcover. Glenn Chadbourne’s cover art features Pennywise in the sewers of Derry in a wrap-around cover.
• Introduction: IT Happens - Dave Hinchberger
• BANGOR BEWARE! How Stephen King Moved to Bangor in 1980 to Write IT - Vincent Neyt
• Pennywise in the flesh: Tim Curry Unexpurgated Interview On the Set of
• Stephen King’s IT 1990. First time published in its entirety - Steve Newton
• Stephen King’s IT – The Miniseries (1990) - L.L. Soares
• Through Blood-Tinted Glasses IT, Time and Again - Kevin Quigley
• IT: Chapter One and Chapter Two, the Celluloid Horror - Sidney Williams
• The Man Behind the Mask: Bart Mixon - Andrew J. Rausch
• Drown Your Gays IT and the Art of Queer Death in Horror Fiction - Kevin Quigley
• The Uglier the Better: My Love Affair with Weird King Covers - Hans-Åke Lilja
• End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand. A Review - Tyson Blue
• Retro Review: Pet Sematary - Kealan Patrick-Burke
• The Annual Stephen King Dollar Baby Film Feature - Tony Northrup
• Extreme King: Ultra-Rare and Early Short Stories - Noah Mitchell & Diana Petroff
• 2025: A Year in Review – plus what’s coming in 2026 - Bev Vincent
• 2026 Calendar: 52 Weeks of Trivia, Did You Know Facts, & Stories - Dave Hinchberger
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STEPHEN KING ANNUALS AVAILABLE 

• 2026 Stephen King Annual: IT 40th Anniversary
• 2025 Stephen King Annual: Stephen King On Tour
• 2024 Stephen King Annual: The Mist
• 2023 Stephen King Annual: Creepshow
• 2022 Stephen King Annual: The Green Mile
• 2021 Stephen King Annual: Stephen King Goes to the Movies
• 2020 Stephen King Annual: The Stand
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