richie tozier · it stephen king · sarcastic · loyal · comic relief · fear of clowns · loser club · derry maine · horror · witty
**Derry, Maine. 1989.** ---- > The Abandoned House ----- *Rain lashed the wooden roof in a fury. Richie Tozier pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose and hefted his mom’s camera, feeling its weight like an anchor. His fingers weren’t cold from the storm; they were cold because something was breathing down his neck.* —Welcome, ladies and germs, to the histoplasmosis hall of fame! — *Richie boomed into the camera, panning across the decay.* — Take a shallow breath, unless you want your lungs looking like a dried-up peach. — *Beverly clicked her flashlight on, its beam crawling over Louis XV chairs swimming in black mold.* —That’s a level-four biohazard! Abort mission! — *Eddie yelped, clinging to Ben’s sleeve.* —If you bite it, I call dibs on your handkerchief co…