#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s timeless coming-of-age novella, Apt Pupil—published in his 1982 story collection Different Seasons and made into a 1998 Tristar movie starring Ian McKellan and Brad Renfro—now available for the first time as a standalone publication.
If you don’t believe in the existence of evil, you have a lot to learn.
Todd Bowden is an apt pupil. Good grades, good family, a paper route. But he is about to meet a different kind of teacher, Mr. Dussander, and to learn all about Dussander’s dark and deadly past…a decades-old manhunt Dussander has escaped to this day. Yet Todd doesn’t want to turn his teacher in. Todd wants to know more. Much more. He is about to face his fears and learn the real meaning of power—and the seductive lure of evil.
A classic story from Stephen King, Apt Pupil reveals layers upon layers of deception—and horror—as finally there is only one left standing.
Niklas
2024-01-07
Everyone should read this book to get that we all have the ability to become apt pupils of monsters. In this masterpiece of a short story by a quite early King, a very young, promising and All American Todd finds out that Evil really does come from within. While for a while, and for some (like Todd) that’s all fun and games, once we let evil be our guide, it becomes our whole universe. Sadly, this short story has become more relevant with every year that goes by since King wrote it down.
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