What you may not know is King stole his story idea from lesser-known story about another evil clown who terror-izes a small town in Maine, but by a different means.
Here it comes!
Oh, God... Don't tell me!
Can you guess what the name of that novel was?
*OOMPH*
DAMMIT, MAURA!! I TOLD YOU TO WAIT UNTIL WE GOT TO DERRY!!!
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