King, Moore & Abrams Teams Up For Lisey's Story
Posted: April 9, 2019, 09:35
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Casting News For Creepshow
Posted: April 3, 2019, 23:17
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“I feel I’m in great company getting the opportunity to direct a story written by Steve. Between Salem’s Lot, Pet Sematary and The Stand, I’ve always found his stories rich in relatable characters forced into supernatural situations beyond their control—the everyday person’s primal fears. To visualize ‘Gray Matter’ for Creepshow with the help of Adrienne, Giancarlo and Tobin was about as good as it gets for a horror fan from Pittsburgh!”
Greg Nicotero
“I was thrilled when Greg asked me to join the Creepshow world once again. And then working with Tobin and Giancarlo, with Greg as our director, well, that was the icing on the cake — no, not that cake. Oh, you know what I mean.”
Adrienne Barbeau
Gallery Books Cover For Shining In The Dark
Posted: April 3, 2019, 17:35
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Pre-order here.
Clip From IT: Chapter 2
Posted: April 3, 2019, 14:52
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It: Chapter 2: The It Chapter 2 footage shown at CinemaCon wasn’t a trailer, but rather a scene that gave way to a quick sizzle reel. The scene in question is lifted directly from Stephen King’s book. The adult Bev Marsh (Jessica Chastain) returns to her childhood home in Derry, looking for her father. Instead, she encounters an old woman named Mrs. Kersh now living in the house. Mrs. Kersh sadly informs Bev that her father passed away, and then invites Bev into her house.
Bev obliges. Once inside, she finds the old poem on the postcard Ben sent her in the first film. And then things start to get creepy. “You know what they say about Derry,” says Mrs. Kersh. “No one who dies here never really dies.” She fixes Bev with a scary, blank stare, and sure enough, Pennywise soon rears his ugly head.
The Story About The Pet Sematary Book Cover
Posted: April 3, 2019, 12:58
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First Clip From Doctor Sleep
Posted: April 3, 2019, 10:48
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Doctor Sleep: We got a glimpse behind the scenes, with Ewan McGregor (sporting a beard as the grown-up Danny) explaining that the film directly addresses his character’s traumatic stay at the Overlook Hotel. Specifically: “How does he deal with that terrible experience from his childhood?” Naturally, the presentation also noted that Stephen King is very involved in the production.
The sneak peek itself featured snippets of intriguing footage. A car driving through the woods in the beginning was clearly reminiscent of the opening sequence from The Shining. A group of people gathered around a campfire – possibly the villains of the film, a nomadic group of people with powerful psychic abilities who prey on those who can “shine.” We also see Danny touch hands with a young girl (possibly Abra Stone, a psychic kid played by Kyliegh Curran). Then there’s a shot of a woman walking with a needle hidden behind her back. Could this be Rose the Hat (Rebecca Ferguson), the main villain of the film?
Finally, the kicker: Danny stands in a filthy bathroom and “redrum” is scratched into the mirror.
Huge News About Shining in the Dark!
Posted: April 1, 2019, 16:41
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Huge news for Shining in the Dark! On October 22 Gallery Books will release the anthology in trade paperback and eBook.You can pre-order your copy here:
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King Talks Pet Sematary
Posted: March 29, 2019, 22:41
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My daughter’s cat died. And we buried it in the pet cemetery. That was Smucky. She made a little cross that said “Smucky — he was obedient.” And I mean, he was a cat. [Laughs] He wasn’t f—ing obedient! But she loved that cat.
Pet Sematary Prequel?
Posted: March 27, 2019, 10:38
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“I generally don’t start thinking about [sequels] until they’re a success, [but]I think if there’s anything here, there’s a prequel. I think if you look at the book, we didn’t cover all that stuff that happens before the Creed family moves in.”
Source: Dread Central
Bill Hadler Talks IT 2
Posted: March 27, 2019, 08:33
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Trained Cats For Pet Sematary
Posted: March 26, 2019, 10:54
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Ep. 100!!!!!!!! - Kingnassaince Continues in 2019
Posted: March 25, 2019, 12:53
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Welcome to the Stephen King Podcast - Constant and New Listeners!
Join your host - longtime Constant Reader - writer/podcaster - Lou W. Sytsma.
Welcome to Episode 100 of The Stephen King Podcast!
Made it! Episode 100!! WooT!
Joining me this episode are two awesome guests. Returning to the show is former
co-host Hans Lilja and writer Bev Vincent. Together we discuss the upcoming King events in 2019 and rank them:
1) Pet Sematary - movie
2) IT - Chapter 2 - movie
3) The Institute - King's new book
4) Mr. Sleep - movie
Hope you enjoy this episode and, as usual, I want to hear from you.
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2) 00:30 - Podcast - King in 2019
3) 41:32 - Outro
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Dark Tower TV Show Casting News
Posted: March 21, 2019, 20:32
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The TV series is independent from the film and is supposed to be an adaptation of the forth book Wizard And Glass. That book take place many years before the events depicted in the feature and focus on Roland’s origin story, how he became a gunslinger and got his guns and meet his first (and only) love.
Casting News For Mr Mercedes Season 3
Posted: March 21, 2019, 08:27
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“Mr. Mercedes” has added three recurring guest stars to the upcoming third season on AT&T Audience Network. Kate Mulgrew will play Alma Lane, a lifelong resident of Bridgton, Ohio; Brett Gelman is Roland Finklestein,a passionate defense attorney Lou Linklatter (Breeda Wool) in her murder trial; and Natalie Paul will play Sarah Pace, a prosecutor on Lou’s case. The series is based on author Stephen King’s Bill Hodges trilogy, and the third season will closely follow the second book “Finders Keepers,” exploring the fallout from Brady Hartsfield’s (Harry Treadaway) massacre.
Castle Rock Season 2 Based On Misery
Posted: March 20, 2019, 21:22
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The Hollywood Reporter report that Lizzy Caplan, Tim Robbins, Elsie Fisher, Garrett Hedlund, Barkhad Abdi, Yusra Warsama and Matthew Alan has been cast.
Season two will explore a feud between warring clans that comes to a boil when budding psychopath Annie Wilkes, King's nurse from hell, gets waylaid in Castle Rock.Tim Robbins will play Reginald "Pop" Merrill, the famed patriarch of King's iconic crime family who is dying of cancer and at a reckoning with his family. Garrett Hedlund will play John "Ace" Merrill, the town of Castle Rock's legendary bully who is taking over his uncle Po's business and threatening a fragile peace with nearby Jerusalem's Lot. Matthew Alan will portray Chris Merrill, Pop's nephew and Ace's brother who struggles to keep peace between the Merrills and the Somali community.
Yusra Warsama will play Dr. Nadia Omar, the Harvard-trained Somali medical director of a rural hospital in Jerusalem's Lot whose rational and scientific mind will be put to the test. Barkhad Abdi will play Abdi Omar, Nadia's tough older brother who leads the charge to build a Somali community center that will deepen the roots of his people in Maine.
Elsie Fisher will play Joy, Annie's homeschooled teenage daughter who is starting to have questions about her mother's sanity. Lizzy Caplan takes on Kathy Bates' iconic Misery role of Annie Wilkes, a nurse and superfan battling to overcome mental health issues in Castle Rock.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Lilja On Unnerving Podcast
Posted: March 18, 2019, 13:05
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Photos From Pet Sematary
Posted: March 18, 2019, 11:00
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New Pet Sematary Featurette
Posted: March 15, 2019, 09:28
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Night Of 1000 Stories Feat. Stephen King
Posted: March 13, 2019, 16:10
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Join 826 Boston for the never-boring, always story-worthy Night of 1,000 Stories gala. Special guest Stephen King will be joined by 826 Boston students for an evening of showcases and surprises. Cocktail hour begins at 5:30 PM, followed by an action-packed dinner at 7:00 PM. Tickets start at $500. All of the funds raised at the event will support 826 Boston's free youth writing and publishing programs. The event will start at 5:30 PM with a cocktail reception; formal program starts at 7:00 PM. A limited number of individual tickets are available for purchase online.
The Talisman Has Found It’s Director
Posted: March 12, 2019, 19:48
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Collider has exclusively learned that Mike Barker, who has directed numerous episodes of Hulu’s Emmy-winning series The Handmaid’s Tale, is set to direct a big-screen adaptation of King and Peter Straub‘s bestselling 1984 fantasy novel The Talisman for Steven Spielberg‘s Amblin Partners and The Kennedy/Marshall Company.
Frank Marshall will produce on behalf of Kennedy/Marshall, while former Amblin CEO Michael Wright will serve as an executive producer on The Talisman, which will be adapted by veteran genre scribe Chris Sparling (Buried).
New TV Spot
Posted: March 12, 2019, 15:59
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King's Schedule For Wordplay In Minneapolis
Posted: March 11, 2019, 11:39
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Ep. 99: King Catchup
Posted: March 11, 2019, 10:39
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Welcome to the Stephen King Podcast - Constant and New Listeners!
Join your host - longtime Constant Reader - writer/podcaster - Lou W. Sytsma.
Welcome to Episode 99 of The Stephen King Podcast!
After a month long layoff due to knee surgery I'm back! And boy there was a ton of Stephen King news during the month of February!!
So this episode is a catch-up one on the news front.
Hope you enjoy this episode and, as usual, I want to hear from you.
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2) 00:30 - Podcast Setup
3) 03:04 - News from the Deathroom
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Dark Tower Didn't Ripp Off Time-Traveling Comic
Posted: March 4, 2019, 18:34
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A Florida federal judge on Friday dismissed a suit claiming Stephen King’s “The Dark Tower” ripped off the time-traveling comic book series “The Rook,” ruling that the protected elements of the two works are dissimilar and that no reasonable jury could conclude King infringed the comic's copyrights.
U.S. District Judge Harvey Schlesinger granted summary judgment in favor of King after finding that even though the two series feature adventure-seeking protagonists who don Western garb and engage in time travel, they are far more different in substance.
The judge said the plaintiff, the nephew of now-deceased comic book writer William B. DuBay, “analyzes the characters at such a high level of abstraction and generality that it does not truly reflect the characters or their shared traits.”
DuBay’s nephew, Benjamin DuBay, claims in his suit launched in March 2017 that King’s eight-book fantasy series “The Dark Tower” featuring protagonist Roland Deschain infringes the copyrights to "The Rook," which features a hero called Restin Dane. Since the character first appeared in Warren Publishing Co.’s horror comic book magazine in 1977, more than 5 million copies of magazines that follow the character The Rook have been published in five different languages, according to the suit.
DuBay claims King was a “super fan” of William DuBay and admitted to copying his character in his memoir, “On Writing.” Since then, King has made more than $500 million off his Deschain character and “The Dark Tower” series, which he published between 1998 and 2004, according to the complaint.
But Judge Schlesinger said that while Roland Deschain and Restin Dane are both adventurers, they have little else in common.
Thanks to Herbert West
Anthrax's Scott Ian Shows His Holy Grail
Posted: March 4, 2019, 15:34
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IT-Themed Versions Of Clue & Monopoly
Posted: March 1, 2019, 15:22
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CLUE takes the classic mystery game even further into shrouded chaos as Bill Denbrough and his friends attempt to determine Pennywise’s Plan. Travel between the The House on Neibolt Street, the Synagogue, Derry Public Library, and more to identify various items used to lure the town’s youth, while avoiding Red Balloons that will end the operation before the menacing killer’s Plan can be uncovered. CLUE: IT will be available this March.
MONOPOLY: IT makes buying, selling, and trading places in and around Derry, Maine the key to winning this uncanny twist of “the Landlord’s Game.” Using tokens of iconic items such as an Inhaler, Paper Boat, and Bicycle, players can draw Encounters and Phenomena cards as they build Suburban Houses and Apartment Buildings on locations like Pennywise’s Cistern and the Derry Sewers. MONOPOLY: IT will be available later this year.
Source: Bloody Disgusting
The Bloodiest Scenes In Horror History
Posted: March 1, 2019, 11:21
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Thanks to Anders Jakobson
Bruce Dern Is John Rothstein
Posted: February 24, 2019, 23:06
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Thanks to Billy Sven-Erik Bent Gustafsson
Trailer For Pennywise: The Story of IT
Posted: February 22, 2019, 22:43
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Hear King's Interview With Eli Roth
Posted: February 21, 2019, 23:36
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In twelve episodes we'll get hours of never-before-heard, candid conversations between Roth and Stephen King, Edgar Wright, Quentin Tarantino, Diablo Cody, Bryan Fuller, Catherine Hardwicke, Victor LaValle, Tippi Hedren, Bruce Campbell, Josh Hartnett, Greg Nicotero and Rob Zombie.
All episodes of the podcast will be made available on Shudder on Friday, February 22, exclusively for its members. Episode 1, featuring Roth’s complete conversation with Stephen King, will be made available the same day to non-members on Apple Podcasts and other platforms, where subsequent episodes will be released twice-weekly on Mondays and Fridays.
Source: Bloody Disgusting.
Mr Mercedes Season 3 Casting
Posted: February 20, 2019, 08:25
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Gabriel Ebert (Ricki and the Flash) and Rarmian Newton (Rise) are set as series regulars and Glynn Turman (How To Get Away With Murder) will recur on the upcoming third season of AT&T Audience Network’s critically praised drama series Mr. Mercedes, from Sonar Entertainment. Production on the Stephen King adaptation is underway in Charleston, South Carolina.
Ebert will play Morris Bellamy, intelligent, well-educated if not middle class, a volatile and charismatic wolf in sheep’s clothing. When he was younger he had ambitions of becoming a famous writer but ended up with a much less exciting life in Ohio.
Newton plays Peter Saubers, 16, smart and personable, he’s a junior in high school and on the college track. From a seemingly happy home, but that picturesque Midwestern life was derailed when his father was disabled during the Mr. Mercedes massacre.
Turman recurs as Judge Bernard Raines, the no-nonsense judge presiding over Lou Linklatter’s murder trial, he suffers no fools and takes no prisoners. He is none too pleased with the lawyers working on this case who seem hell bent for trial.
Source: Deadline
Andrew Bernstein Set To Direct The Outsider
Posted: February 16, 2019, 09:49
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EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Bernstein (Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan) has been tapped to direct several episodes and serve as executive producer on HBO’s supernatural drama series The Outsider, based on Stephen King’s bestselling novel, with Ben Mendelsohn set to star and produce. The project hails from The Night Of co-creator/executive producer Richard Price, director-producer Jack Bender (Mr. Mercedes) Jason Bateman’s Aggregate Films, Temple Hill Entertainment and MRC.
The New Improved Creep
Posted: February 16, 2019, 09:30
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Read more here
Thanks to Anders Jakobson
New Poster For Pet Sematary
Posted: February 13, 2019, 11:02
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Production Has Begun On Creepshow
Posted: February 11, 2019, 12:04
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Press Release: Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for thriller, suspense and horror, announced today that production has begun on its first long-form original TV series, Creepshow, in Atlanta, GA. Executive produced by The Walking Dead’s Greg Nicotero, the horror series is based on the iconic 1982 anthology film written by Stephen King and directed by George A. Romero.
The six-episode season will feature an adaptation of an as-yet unannounced Stephen King story, as well as segments based on stories by other award-winning and acclaimed horror writers, including:
● “By the Silvery Waters of Lake Champlain” by Joe Hill (NOS4A2)
● “House of the Head” by Josh Malerman (Bird Box)
● “The Companion” by Joe Lansdale (The Bottoms)
● “The Man in the Suitcase” by Christopher Buehlman (The Lesser Dead)
● “All Hallows Eve” by Bruce Jones (The Hitchhiker)
● “Night of the Paw” by John Esposito (The Walking Dead: Webisodes)
● “Bad Wolf Down” by Rob Schrab (Monster House)
Thanks to Billy Sven-Erik Bent Gustafsson
The Blue Air Compressor Excerpt
Posted: February 9, 2019, 00:15
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Mile 81 King's Next Story To Be Filmed
Posted: February 9, 2019, 00:08
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Alistair Legrand (Clinical) has been set to direct supernatural horror thriller Mile 81, based on the 2011 novella by Stephen King. Producer is Ross M. Dinerstein, who recently produced Netflix’s King adaptation 1922 and the streaming service’s John Grisham inspired docuseries The Innocent Man. Paradigm is handling sales, and introducing the project at the European Film Market in Berlin.
Script comes from Legrand and Luke Harvis (The Diabolical). Production is planned for fall 2019 with casting discussions underway.
Source: Deadline
Dolores Claiborne: The Opera
Posted: February 8, 2019, 13:29
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Boston University’s Opera Institute performs the chamber version of Tobias Picker’s Dolores Claiborne, conducted by William Lumpkin, on FEBRUARY 21-24, 2019.
Picker notes, “Dolores Claiborne is a character destined for the operatic stage – passionate, desperate, trapped. She will do anything to save the daughter who despises her. Pushed to the extreme edge of life, she does what she has to, fearless and forsaken.”
Based on the best-selling novel by Stephen King, DOLORES CLAIBORNE was hailed in its premiere production at the SAN FRANCISCO OPERA as “A BRILLIANT MUSICAL INCARNATION” and “A MOMENTOUS ADDITION TO THE EXPANDING CANON OF AMERICAN OPERA” (Huffington Post). The new chamber version was jointly commissioned by New York City Opera and the Opera Institute at Boston University.
Changes In Pet Sematary Explained
Posted: February 8, 2019, 08:57
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I won't post the changes here with respect to those who want to know nothing about the new movie, but I do want to know what you think about them (and don't read the comment if you don't want to know).
Update: Dark Tower TV Series
Posted: February 7, 2019, 22:33
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Amazon Studios is set to move ahead with production on their adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower books. The series, which will be comprised of 13 one-hour episodes, will be executive produced by a team of huge names led by Glen Mazzara (The Walking Dead), Akiva Goldsman (Titans, Star Trek: Discovery) and King.
Amazon Studios has begun looking to assemble a cast ahead of a mid-April start of production in Croatia, where the series is expected to film until late-June. It appears that part of the delay may have been, in part, due to efforts to distance the series from the 2017 film adaptation which was received poorly by fans and critics. The series will of course focus on Roland Deschain, a young boy from a long line of “gunslingers”, and his “ka-tet” comprised of Cuthbert Allgood, Alain Johns, Ileen Ritter and Jamie De Curry in addition to his girlfriend, Susan Delgado. The studio is currently looking at actors and actresses, ages 16-18 for all the roles listed above.
Marten Broadcloak will serve as the series antagonist and his affair with Roland’s mother, Gabrielle, will factor heavily into the plot. Her affair incites Roland to pick up his guns in a search for Broadcloak and sets his father, Steven, on a mission to find him. At this time, no offers have been made to talent, but the cast should begin to assemble quickly.
Thanks to Bev Vincent
New Poster For Pet Sematary
Posted: February 7, 2019, 15:41
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New Trailer For Pet Sematary
Posted: February 7, 2019, 15:02
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Shining Opera Returns In 2020
Posted: February 7, 2019, 14:05
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After a widely acclaimed, sold-out world premiere by Minnesota Opera in 2016, The Shining—based on Stephen King’s terrifying novel—will open Opera Colorado’s 2020-21 season. This new work, by composer Paul Moravec and librettist Mark Campbell, offers a delightfully eerie evening that marries opera and horror to brilliant effect.
Thanks to Herbert West
Excerpt From Shining in the Dark
Posted: February 5, 2019, 21:15
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King Writing About Holly
Posted: February 5, 2019, 19:12
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Shining In The Dark: Now Out On Audio!
Posted: February 5, 2019, 15:45
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King Celebrated At McDonald's
Posted: February 5, 2019, 13:27
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King was first named-checked in Variety in summer 1974 when Hollywood producer Paul Monash obtained the film rights to King’s first published novel, “Carrie,” which had just hit bookstores only weeks earlier. While a modest seller in hardback, in paperback, “Carrie” became the first of King’s many million-sellers.
Read more over at Variety.
The Stand Writer's Room
Posted: February 2, 2019, 22:19
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and Eric Dickinson in The Stand Writer's Room.
Excerpt from The Institute
Posted: February 2, 2019, 15:59
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UK Cover For The Institute
Posted: February 1, 2019, 18:53
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There’s Only One Way Out…
Deep in the woods of Maine, there is a dark state facility where kids, abducted from across the United States, are incarcerated. In the Institute they are subjected to a series of tests and procedures meant to combine their exceptional gifts – telepathy, telekinesis – for concentrated effect. Luke Ellis is the latest recruit. He’s just a regular 12-year-old, except he’s not just smart, he’s super-smart. And he has another gift which the Institute wants to use…
Far away in a small town in South Carolina, former cop Tim Jamieson has taken a job working for the local Sheriff. He’s basically just walking the beat. But he’s about to take on the biggest case of his career.
Back in the Institute’s downtrodden playground and corridors where posters advertise ‘just another day in paradise’, Luke, his friend Kalisha and the other kids are in no doubt that they are prisoners, not guests. And there is no hope of escape.
But great events can turn on small hinges and Luke is about to team up with a new, even younger recruit, Avery Dixon, whose ability to read minds is off the scale. While the Institute may want to harness their powers for covert ends, the combined intelligence of Luke and Avery is beyond anything that even those who run the experiments – even the infamous Mrs Sigsby – suspect.
Thrilling, suspenseful, heartbreaking, The Institute is a stunning novel of childhood betrayed and hope regained.
The Institute will be released in hardback, export trade paperback, ebook and audio on 10 September 2019.
