AllisonĪllison by Jeff Strand features a woman with the power of telekinesis. This terrifying power allows her to create fire with her mind, but The Shop will stop at nothing to find her and use her powers for their own ends. However, after they fall in love and have a daughter, Charlie, she develops the power of pyrokinesis. His 1980 thriller, Firestarter, is about a father, Andy, and his daughter, Charlie, who are on the run from a government agency called 'The Shop.' Andy and his future wife volunteered as test subjects for The Shop when they were teens in need of extra cash, which resulted in them unlocking latent psychic talent.

The Institute is not the first time Stephen King wrote about clandestine organizations and children with extraordinary powers. Readers who enjoy stories about people with the ability to influence their surroundings using only the power of their minds should check out the following books like The Institute. The novel features the familiar Stephen King theme of children triumphing over evil, but there are some harrowing scenes along the way.

One of these is The Institute by Stephen King, in which a young boy with telekinetic powers is kidnapped and finds himself held prisoner along with other children who have unique abilities. Unsurprisingly, though, there are plenty of authors both past and present who still make use of characters with extraordinary mental abilities to create compelling stories. However, these types of powers are regarded as pseudoscience in modern times due to a lack of evidence. There was a time when powers such as telepathy and telekinesis were thought to be genuine paranormal phenomena.

Among the Shrouded by Amalie Jahn