Apt Pupil

#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s timeless coming-of-age novella, Apt Pupil—published in his story collection Different Seasons and made into a movie starring Ian McKellan and Brad Renfro—is now available as a stand-alone 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’...