As psychically terrifying as Firestarter, and with the spectacular kid power of It , The Institute is King\'s gut-wrenchingly dramatic story of good vs. evil in a world where the good guys don\'t always win..
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 vs.
But no one has ever escaped from the Institute.
As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help.
If you don\'t, punishment is brutal.
If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines.
There are no scruples here.
Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts.
In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs.
You check in, but you don\'t check out.
Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, like the roach motel, Kalisha says.
They are all in Front Half.
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.
Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there\'s no window.
The operation takes less than two minutes.
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.
A NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2019 SELECTION From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, the most riveting and unforgettable story of kids confronting evil since It. evil in a world where the good guys don\'t always win.
As psychically terrifying as Firestarter, and with the spectacular kid power of It , The Institute is King\'s gut-wrenchingly dramatic story of good vs
