1922: An iconic story from the No. 1 bestseller

by Stephen King

I believe that there is another man inside of every man, a stranger, a Conniving Man.

I discovered something that night that most people never have to learn: murder is sin, murder is damnation (surely of one’s own mind and spirit, even if the atheists are right and there is no afterlife), but murder is also work.

If God rewards us on earth for good deeds – the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it – then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.