“They couldn’t wait to go back and see it again.” “I think a lot of kids watched the It miniseries with Tim Curry, and it scared the living shit right out of them,” King says. (“Keith looked a little tentative and just putting in the time at first, but then he caught fire.”) He’s still reveling in the surge of interest in his work that followed 2017’s It, now the highest-grossing horror movie ever. King is calling in from his house in Maine, just a couple of weeks after traveling to Foxborough, Massachusetts, to see his first-ever Rolling Stones concert. I’m not George Orwell, and this book isn’t 1984. But I don’t want to force my worldview on people. “Fiction has foreseen Trump before,” says King, “always as a nightmare. This isn’t the first time a King book predicted the political future: His 1979 book The Dead Zone was about a Trump-like aspiring president threatening global apocalypse if he took office. “I can’t help but see similarity between what’s going on in The Institute and those pictures of kids in cages,” says King. But The Institute - out September 10th and centered on a 12-year-old boy stolen from his parents in the night and locked up in a mysterious facility - is likely to remind readers of certain immigration policies. Donald Trump was still months away from being elected president when Stephen King began writing his new novel.
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