From #1 NY Occasions bestselling author Stephen King, the most riveting and unforgettable story of kids confronting evil because it.

In the middle of the night, in a house on the quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him right into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two moments. Luke will wake up on the Institute, in a room that looks exactly like his very own, except there’s no windows. And outside his door are other doors, behind that are additional about The Institute: A Novel kids with special talents—telekinesis and telepathy—who got to this place the same manner Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back again Half, “like the roach motel,” Kalisha says. “You check in, but you don’t check out.”

In this most sinister of institutions, the movie director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly focused on extracting from these kids the drive of their extranormal presents. A couple of no scruples here. If you go along, you obtain tokens for the vending machines. In the event that you don’t, abuse is usually brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to obtain out and get help. But no-one offers ever escaped from your Institute.

As psychically terrifying as Firestarter, and with the spectacular child power of It, The Institute is Stephen King’s gut-wrenchingly dramatic tale of great vs. wicked in a global where the great guys don’t always win.