By Baishaly Roy
On Halloween 2026, ‘IT: Welcome to Derry’ fans were absolutely surprised when the makers released a Halloween special episode that explored the earliest origins of Derry. The standalone episode, titled ‘A Story of Derry’, takes us back centuries into the past, where the creature was confronted for the first time.
The 30-minute special introduced us to the protagonist, Neekani, whom we had previously met in the first season’s flashbacks. When she goes off into the woods with her friends to search for food, that’s when she ends up facing IT. But thankfully, she gets support, and this is where Stephen King’s connection becomes more evident.
We finally meet an important character from Stephen King’s mythos, Maturin. It is during this meeting that Neekani learns how she and her clan can fight IT and finally imprison it for generations.
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Who Is ‘IT: Welcome to Derry’s Maturin In The Stephen King Lore?
To understand Maturin’s existence, you’ll have to know about “The Prim,” which was filled with demons and all the monsters. But the nasty place happened to be home to Gan, who had access to a Macroverse that connected to our reality and all the parallel ones. The only job Gan had here was to keep the monsters inside The Prim and hold all the realities together.
And that brings us to the turtle Maturin, a cosmic being that exists …read more
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