Stephen King is an absolute machine. It seems like only yesterday when The Outsider was soon to be on its way, but now that’s been and gone and his next novel is set to be released this September. Titled The Institute, the story has been compared to Firestarter and It, being described at psychically terrifying and gut-wrenchingly dramatic.
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If you want to read a detailed description of the plot, then do read on:
“In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents—telekinesis and telepathy—who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, “like the roach motel,” Kalisha says. “You check in, but you don’t check out.”
In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don’t, punishment is brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute.”
Look out for The Institute this September 10th in its 576-page entirety.
Words: Jessy Williams (@JessyCritical)
