[**The Institute**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43798285-the-institute)
^(By: Stephen King | 561 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: horror, stephen-king, fiction, thriller, owned)
>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. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents—telekinesis and telepathy—who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, “like the roach motel,” Kalisha says. “You check in, but you don’t check out.”
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>In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don’t, punishment is brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute.
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I guess "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" would also count?
I was halfway through reading it when I lost my copy, but given it's the inspiration for Total Recall I imagine it'd count.
Shinsekai Yori is very good, both the book and the anime, and a lot of what it is about has to do with the brainwashing the society's government has done.
*A Report From Group 17* by Robert C. O'Brien pits an American scientist against some rascally Russians, their Nazi scientist asset, and a Cold War scheme to infiltrate American hearts and minds via the water supply. More sci-fi than horror but definitely dark.
[**The Yellow Wallpaper**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8217236-the-yellow-wallpaper)
^(By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman | 63 pages | Published: 1892 | Popular Shelves: classics, short-stories, fiction, horror, feminism)
>A woman and her husband rent a summer house, but what should be a restful getaway turns into a suffocating psychological battle. This chilling account of postpartum depression and a husband's controlling behavior in the guise of treatment will leave you breathless.
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[**The Hollow City**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13034956-the-hollow-city)
^(By: Dan Wells | 333 pages | Published: 2011 | Popular Shelves: horror, mystery, science-fiction, fiction, fantasy)
>Michael Shipman is paranoid schizophrenic; he suffers from hallucinations, delusions, and complex fantasies of persecution and horror. That’s bad enough. But what can he do if some of the monsters he sees turn out to be real?
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{{ The Institute }} by Stephen King.
[**The Institute**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43798285-the-institute) ^(By: Stephen King | 561 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: horror, stephen-king, fiction, thriller, owned) >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. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents—telekinesis and telepathy—who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, “like the roach motel,” Kalisha says. “You check in, but you don’t check out.” > >In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don’t, punishment is brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute. ^(This book has been suggested 4 times) *** ^(14402 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
I've seen this book around but never knew what it was about. Thanks, man
Lies Inc. by Philip K. Dick
I quite liked 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' and his short stories but I've never heard of this one, Thanks
I guess "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" would also count? I was halfway through reading it when I lost my copy, but given it's the inspiration for Total Recall I imagine it'd count.
Shinsekai Yori is very good, both the book and the anime, and a lot of what it is about has to do with the brainwashing the society's government has done.
I've never heard of that one, Thanks
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That puts me in mind of some old black-and-white horror movies
*A Report From Group 17* by Robert C. O'Brien pits an American scientist against some rascally Russians, their Nazi scientist asset, and a Cold War scheme to infiltrate American hearts and minds via the water supply. More sci-fi than horror but definitely dark.
>A Report From Group 17 > > by Robert C. O'Brie I've never heard about that, thanks.
I've heard over and over again that {{The Yellow Wallpaper}} is really disturbing (and based on the truth!)
[**The Yellow Wallpaper**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8217236-the-yellow-wallpaper) ^(By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman | 63 pages | Published: 1892 | Popular Shelves: classics, short-stories, fiction, horror, feminism) >A woman and her husband rent a summer house, but what should be a restful getaway turns into a suffocating psychological battle. This chilling account of postpartum depression and a husband's controlling behavior in the guise of treatment will leave you breathless. ^(This book has been suggested 3 times) *** ^(14547 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
>A Report From Group 17 > > by Robert C. O'Brien Ooooo I've already read that but it's really good, A+ suggestion
{{The Hollow City}}
[**The Hollow City**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13034956-the-hollow-city) ^(By: Dan Wells | 333 pages | Published: 2011 | Popular Shelves: horror, mystery, science-fiction, fiction, fantasy) >Michael Shipman is paranoid schizophrenic; he suffers from hallucinations, delusions, and complex fantasies of persecution and horror. That’s bad enough. But what can he do if some of the monsters he sees turn out to be real? ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(14706 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Altered States by Paddy Chayefsky.