I care about a government that’s too big and that will try to do things where the ends justify the means. “One of the challenges when you’ve been around as long as I have and you think you’ve explored all the corners of the room, you have to say to yourself, ‘What are the things that really concern me? What are the things that I care about?’” King says. The plots of “It” and “The Institute” are completely different, but at the core of each story is something the author says matters more and more to him these days: not creating fear, but dispelling it. A sequel, “ It: Chapter Two,” which adapts the grown-up half of his novel, opens in theaters on Sept. King acknowledges “The Institute” shares that theme with his 1986 epic “ It,” which has sparked a resurgence of film and TV adaptations of his work after the blockbuster success of the 2017 movie version. Stephen King’s latest book, “The Institute,” comes out Sept. “We’re each on our own island, and at the same time sometimes we can yell to each other and get together, and there is that sense of community and empathy.
“I wanted to write about how weak people can be strong,” King says, speaking by phone from his home in Bangor, Me.
When he began writing the book in March 2017, he thought of it not as a horror story but as a resistance tale, with 12-year-old telekinetic genius Luke, teenage mind reader Kalisha and 10-year-old power-channeler Avery forming a rebellion inside their detention center. The concept for the book dates back more than two decades, when King - who has depicted similar psychic characters as loners in books such as “ Carrie,” “The Shining,” “Firestarter” and “ The Dead Zone” - pictured an entire schoolhouse filled with such kids. Those who think of King primarily for horror may be surprised by how much warmth there is in a book that sounds so coldblooded. The author is about to turn 72 as he publishes his 61st novel, “The Institute,” about children who display supernatural abilities being forcibly rounded up for study by a shadowy organization that brutally discards them when their usefulness is exhausted. That may be why so many readers, many of whom discovered his books when they were kids themselves, have remained loyal over 45 years of storytelling. Within every terrifying story about a shape-shifting killer clown, homicidal father in a haunted hotel or super flu that depopulates the planet, the relentlessly prolific writer has filled his pages with equally powerful supplies of strength, selflessness and even hope.
Stephen King wouldn’t still be in business if all he had to sell was fear.
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