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It’s called “A Story of Derry” and it’s more than terrifying enough to hold fans over until the next season releases. Credit: Phillip Faraone /

HBO Max gave horror fans a Halloween gift this year. HBO released a surprise episode of ‘It: Welcome to Derry’ on the streaming platform Saturday at midnight. The special is called ‘A Story of Derry.’ It arrived with almost no warning.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first-ever Stephen King adaptation, Brian De Palma’s seminal 1976 Carrie. That means that for five full decades now, audiences have been inundated not only by King’s written stories – the author is obscenely prolific, both as himself and under various pseudonyms – but also translations of his…

HBO Max has pulled a little trick on “IT: Welcome to Derry” fans — but it’s really quite a treat.

It’s been almost a year since the Season 1 finale of IT: Welcome to Derry arrived, wrapping up the 1960s-set story that predated Andy Muschietti’s 2017 reboot of the Stephen King story. In that time, the team behind the show have been open about developing the next batch of episodes for the series and what…