In the volume The Four Seasons, by Stephen King, we found the novel Summer of Corruption, an interesting story about how evil can be inserted into the soul of any person when it surrenders to the knowledge of the same essence of evil.
A gifted student such as Todd Bowden, happens to meet a high Nazi leader, hidden behind a new identity of Arthur Denken. During one of his extensive works on Nazism, he navigated so intensively through the documentation on the subject that he did not hesitate for a moment when he discovered one of the most important jailers of the Nazi death camps.
And without hesitation, she appears before him. Something in his heart wants the old man to explain what was happening. Under the threat of revealing his identity, he gets chilling accounts of pain and death around the Holocaust, to that final solution that was intended to eliminate unwanted people from all over the world.
The memory transports the old Nazi to his past, while his story makes evil nest in the boy's soul. Their vicious encounters turn both into evil personified. Both student and teacher of evil unleash their infernal perceptions gathered during these appointments.
Todd still looks like a good boy, but his hands are staining with blood. The old Nazi officer is gathering death in the basement of his house. Other victims similar to those of the Holocaust, disadvantaged of the society who see in the hands of Todd and Arthur a summary justice for their decadent lives.
The evil is accumulating with its rancid smell. What they both have done is a secret shared with the reader. When everything is discovered, reality will surprise the residents of your city.
I found a detail in this book curious. At some point Arthur Denken names a doctor who murdered his wife, the doctor in question was named Dufresne ... do you remember the movie Life sentence? It's the same case with Dr. Andy Dufresne. And of course, what happens is that the film is based on the other short novel that makes up this volume.
If you haven't read this story yet, you can find it in the volume The Four Seasons I, here: