IKENNA OBIOHA
Following last year’s release Elevation, famous American author Stephen King announces the release date for his new novel The Institute. Teased for months now, the team revealed that the book has secured a September 10 release date to bookstores.
His latest effort, a 576-page novel details the life of Luke Ellis who possesses supernormal powers. It follows in the lineup of events slated for this year from the Stephen King’s stable. Just this year alone, the second chapter of the movie It is expected in September, April will see a reimagining of his novel Pet Samantry into motion picture, while Doctor Sleep is slated for November.
As psychically terrifying as Firestarter — one of his classic novels — 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 good guys don’t always win. A short pitch on the author” website depicts the terror penned by 71-year-old King.
A detailed synopsis of the book reads:
“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.”