#everythings eventual

“hhng flesh”

She lived a few blocks from where the events that inspired The Exorcist took place, in the same year— and she described the devil almost exactly as King did in the story, down to the long fingernails which he scraped along the door.

Also, the lighting on this book is ominous.

Stephen King, “That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is In French”

I read the story called “The Man in the Black Suit” in Everything’s Eventual and it terrified me. The story is about the devil appearing to a little boy, and he’s wearing a suit and has long fingernails. In the notes, King explained that he was inspired by his friend’s grandfather who saw the devil when he was a little boy. My own grandmother says she thought she saw the devil when she was five years old.

Stephen King