View Full Version : Horror novel about patients taking over asylum
J_Thomas_Ganzer
10-28-2017, 11:44 AM
I came across this a year or two ago and completely spaced. Maybe a Dean Koontz novel? Or a Stephen King short story? Mental patients take over the institution and control it for a period of time. Any of this ring a bell?
Martha
10-28-2017, 11:58 AM
It rings a bell. I'll have to check it out!
J_Thomas_Ganzer
10-28-2017, 01:09 PM
It rings a bell. I'll have to check it out!
Thanks, Martha! I have an idea for a short story but I am certain another popular author did it first (damnit).
MichaelMyers
10-28-2017, 02:01 PM
Book is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
J_Thomas_Ganzer
10-28-2017, 09:54 PM
Book is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Not quite. The story I'm thinking of had the mental patients take over the institution, set up a series of rules and their own society, and the outside world didn't know. No guards, no doctors, etc.
Bloof
10-29-2017, 04:15 AM
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether. Edgar Allen Poe?