

Luke befriends several other kids: Kalisha Benson, Nick Wilholm, George Iles, Iris Stanhope, Helen Simms, and later ten-year-old Avery Dixon, in the area known as Front Half. The Institute houses a number of other kidnapped children, each with special talents- telekinesis and telepathy. Luke wakes up in a room almost identical to his own at "the Institute," a facility secretly located deep in the forests of Maine. One night, intruders silently murder Luke's parents and kidnap him. A decorated former policeman, Tim takes a job as a local patrolman, and soon develops a relationship with a deputy, Wendy Gullickson.Īnother storyline begins in suburban Minneapolis with Luke Ellis, a twelve-year-old intellectual prodigy with mild telekinetic abilities. By coincidence, en route, he gives up a seat on a plane and finds himself in the small town of DuPray, South Carolina. Tim Jamieson leaves his job in Florida and prepares to head to New York City.

The Institute was published on September 10, 2019, and met with generally positive reviews. When his parents are murdered, he is kidnapped by intruders and awakens in the Institute, a facility that houses other abducted children who have telepathy or telekinesis. The book follows twelve-year-old genius Luke Ellis. evil in a world where the good guys don’t always win.The Institute is a 2019 American science fiction- horror thriller novel by Stephen King, published by Scribner. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute.Īs 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. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. 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. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, “like the roach motel,” Kalisha says. 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.
