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Perhaps Stephen King's scariest book to date, The Horror Meter returns to his classic themes, weaving them into crisis-era America. Late at night, in a quiet suburb of Minneapolis, strangers break into the home of the Ellis family and, after quietly murdering the parents of twelve-year-old Luke, kidnap him and put him in a black SUV. Luke wakes up at the Institute, in a room just like his, but without windows. Outside his own door are other doors, behind which are kept other children with special abilities, such as telepathy and telekinesis. They have come here in a similar way. They are Kalissa, Nick, George, Iris and ten year old Avery Dixon. In this cruel institution, the headmistress, Mrs. Sigsbee, and her staff are completely devoted to their cause: to wring from the children the power that their supernatural gifts owe to them. There are no moral qualms. If you cooperate, you earn tokens for the snack and refreshment vending machines. If not, the punishment is harsh. One by one, the children disappear and Luke is desperate to escape. But so far no one has escaped from the Institute... Unspeakably terrifying, just like the Fury of Fire, but with the power of a child's eye This, The Institute is a tragic and shocking story of good versus evil in a world where good guys don't always win. They said of the book: “Classic King with extra doses of tension and fury. Behind the dizzying plot and his well-known impetuous prose lies the main driving force of the book - a concern that could not be more timely: the inhumane treatment of children... Once again, behind the curtain of our King's imagination the real world peeks in... A first-rate play that has something important to say.” –The Washington Post "Harrowing, moving and terrifyingly real... The carefree depiction of the unknown as an imminent threat is the hallmark of King's writing." –The Boston Globe "Of all the mundane threats King's heroes have faced from time to time, this slow slide into cruelty and inhumanity is perhaps the scariest because it is the most real." –The New York Times Book Review Stephen King is considered one of the most important writers in the world. He has written over 50 novels, 200 short stories and essays, with sales of over 350,000,000 copies. His works, many of which were made into films or series, include Salem's Lot, It, The Crow, The Shining, The Green Mile, Misery, Hearts in Atlantis, Outsider, Exaltation. He has been honored with many important literary awards. King lives in Bangor, Maine with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.