HBO Max is giving "IT: Welcome to Derry" fans a special spooky goody. The second episode is slated for an early release in honor of Halloween, according to a news release. It will be available on HBO Max on Friday, Oct. 31, at 3 a.m. ET. It will also air on HBO on Sunday, Nov. 2 at 9 p.m. ET.

The first episode of It: Welcome to Derry debuts on Sunday, October 26 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on HBO. It will also, as we have now come to expect, be available to stream on HBO Max at that time locally.

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Welcome to Derry" Episode 1. If the "It: Welcome to Derry" premiere felt bloodier or more intense than the two movies, well that was by design. The new HBO series takes place in 1962 -- which is the monster's 27-year cycle before the Losers Club face off against him in the 2017 film -- and starts with a bloody bang.

The show's creators also collaborated with John Bear Mitchell, a member of the Penobscot Nation and a professor at the University of Maine who works in movies and TV both in front of and behind the camera.

A seminal work of modern horror, It is an epic of friendship, suffering, and evil—on a personal, societal, and supernatural scale—that forever turned clowns into figures of unspeakable terror. Twice adapted for the screen,

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