The characters / Recurring character
Mike Hanlon
Mike Hanlon is recorded in 2 distinct stories.
Reveal identity notes · spoilers
Librarian who summons his childhood friends back to Derry. IT places Mike Hanlon working in the Derry Public Library and explicitly identifies Michael Hanlon as its head librarian elsewhere in the same narrative. Insomnia’s narrative identifies Mike at the same library and depicts him responding to the disturbance involving Ralph Roberts. Matching distinctive identity, town, and library role support one character.
Also recorded as Michael Hanlon, Mikey.
Stories and supporting passages
Insomnia
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Of course it wouldn’t come to that, he told himself, it never does. But was that true? He didn’t really know, that was the devil of it, and the books on the subject Mike Hanlon steered him to down at the Derry Public Library weren’t much help.
Mike Hanlon is the Derry librarian in Insomnia and the continuing Derry contact in It; existing source review establishes his library role.
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Now you come, Ralph thought wearily. Where were you three minutes ago, when this guy was on the verge of popping my left lung like a balloon? Mike Hanlon, looking slim and no more than thirty despite his tight cap of gray hair, appeared in the doorway.
Reviewed narrative excerpt depicts this character in the story.
It
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Staring into her husband’s dead and sparkling eyes, she began to scream. 2 Richard Tozier Takes a Powder Rich felt like he was doing pretty good until the vomiting started. He had listened to everything Mike Hanlon told him, said all the right things, answered Mike’s questions, even asked a few of his own.
Mike Hanlon is the Derry librarian in Insomnia and the continuing Derry contact in It; existing source review establishes his library role.
Read the passage Spoilers · Story context
2 Richard Tozier Takes a Powder Rich felt like he was doing pretty good until the vomiting started. He had listened to everything Mike Hanlon told him, said all the right things, answered Mike’s questions, even asked a few of his own.
Librarian who summons his childhood friends back to Derry.