(KTLA) -- The second episode of HBO's "It: Welcome to Derry" premiered Friday, serving up more "King"-sized scares for Halloween and beyond. The episode, "The Thing in the Dark," follows the thrilling series premiere earlier this week by delving deeper into the evils at work in the fictional Maine hamlet.

Spoilers ahead for "It: Welcome to Derry" episode 2.

'This isn't America. This is Derry'

While episode one, titled "The Pilot," hinted around at the racial tensions that pervade Derry in the 1960s, episode two dives head first into the real life horrors Black citizens of the town are facing.

We learned last episode that police attempted to pin Matty Clements' disappearance on theater projectionist Hank Grogan (Stephen Rider), and Friday's episode opens with officers still stalking the

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