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Gripping tale of gifted kids, sinister captivity.

If you're drawn to tales that weave horror with the innocence of childhood, "The Institute" won't disappoint. Imagine a place where the brightest minds face the darkest deeds—an unsettling juxtaposition Stephen King masters. The sense of hope in the face of relentless adversity makes rooting for Luke and Avery a compelling emotional journey. Your instinct for justice will meet its match in this narrative.

  • Locus Award Nominee for Best Horror Novel (2020)
  • Audie Award for Thrillers/Suspense (2020)
  • British Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Horror Novel (August Derleth Award) (2020)
  • Goodreads Choice Award for Horror (2019)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Institute

Regular price $12.90
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ISBN: 9781529331660
Authors: Stephen King
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Date of Publication: 2020-07-14
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 4.2
(rated by 288753 readers)

Description

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.As psychically terrifying as Firestarter, and with the spectacular kid power of It, The Institute is Stephen King's gut-wrenchingly dramatic story of good versus evil in a world where the
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Gripping tale of gifted kids, sinister captivity.

If you're drawn to tales that weave horror with the innocence of childhood, "The Institute" won't disappoint. Imagine a place where the brightest minds face the darkest deeds—an unsettling juxtaposition Stephen King masters. The sense of hope in the face of relentless adversity makes rooting for Luke and Avery a compelling emotional journey. Your instinct for justice will meet its match in this narrative.

  • Locus Award Nominee for Best Horror Novel (2020)
  • Audie Award for Thrillers/Suspense (2020)
  • British Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Horror Novel (August Derleth Award) (2020)
  • Goodreads Choice Award for Horror (2019)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.