Not even the greatest horror writer of the last century can think up acts more evil than those being done by the American president. “But I don’t want you to say that was in my mind when I wrote the book, because I’m not a person who wants to write allegory like ‘Animal Farm’ or ‘1984.’”

“That was creepy to me because it was really like what I was writing about,” King says.

“And at some point in the course of working on the book, Trump actually started to lock kids up.” At least seven children have died while in immigration custody since the policy was enacted. I’ve felt more and more a sense that people who are weak, and people who are disenfranchised and people who aren’t the standard, white American, are being marginalized,” King says. “All I can say is that I wrote it in the Trump era. From 1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, the most riveting and unforgettable story of kids confronting evil since It. The broad strokes of “The Institute' began to parallel what was happening in real life: Children, seeking asylum at the border, were being removed from their parents under the administration’s family separation policy. As the New York Times writes: As King neared completion of the book last summer, things got weird. And if that sounds like it echoes real-life recent events-the crisis at the border where families are being separated and held in what some call concentration camps-it wasn't intentional. He's discussing his latest novel The Institute, which follows a group of children with supernatural abilities who are abducted by a mysterious organization. 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.

Stephen King Shared a Grim Trump Prediction From 1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, the most riveting and unforgettable story of kids confronting evil since It.

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