How many chapters are in It by Stephen King?

Stephen King's 17th novel It is divided into five parts and 23 official chapters, however with five interludes there are really 28 chapters. The novel's first part is "The Shadow Before" and has three chapters. The the second part has six chapters and is called "June of 1958," Part Three is entitled "Grownups" with three chapters, Part Four is, again, "July of 1958" with six chapters, Part 5 is entitled "The Ritual of Chud" with five chapters. The novel centers around a group of children who live in a town plagued by an evil clown that visits ever 27 years. This is why the novel oscillates between the late 1950s and mid 1980s in its timeline.