Synopsis & Release Date for Stephen King’s Next Novel THE INSTITUTE
In case two big Stephen King-related news stories weren’t enough for one day (we just reported on the release date for The Shining sequel Doctor Sleep and a new adaptation of The Stand being produced for CBS All Access) we’re also getting details regarding the bestselling author’s next novel. Yes, the Master of Horror is still a prolific writer after all these years!
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StephenKing.com announced this morning that The Institute will be available at online and brick and mortar retailers beginning September 10th (just four days after the release of Andy Muschietti’s IT: Chapter Two, by the way). The site describes the novel as a “gut-wrenchingly dramatic story of good vs. evil in a world where the good guys don’t always win”.
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Synopsis:
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.
The Institute is 576 pages.
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