The Man in the Black Suit

"The Man in the Black Suit" is a short story by Stephen King. In 1995, it won the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction and the O. Henry Award. In 1997, it was published in King's anthology Six Stories. In 2002, it was published in the collection Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales; in the latter text, King described the piece as an homage to Nathaniel Hawthorne's story "Young Goodman Brown". He also states that the story evolved from one his friend told him, in which the friend's grandfather had come face to face with Satan himself in the form of an ordinary man. It was adapted into a short film with the same title in 2004 by Nicholas Mariani. The story tells of Gary, a nine year-old boy, whose brother had died not long ago. One day Gary goes out fishing and falls asleep. When he awakens, he discovers an orange-eyed man in a black three-piece suit looming over him. The man--whose body odor smells like burnt match heads-- tells Gary terrible things: that his mother has died... full article at wikipedia