Binnacle: a dreadful laugh

from what i could gather, this man met a devil in a shape of an eight years old boy not knowing his identity he shot the kid and thought it was all over two nights afterwards at the elders meeting, the boy appeared again... " -you thought you've rid of me the man tried to fend him off - there's nothing you can do to me the lights went off and a lighting let the man see the true shape of the boy: his head was oozing black substance his skull was terribly damaged, his skin was rotting, he had lost his eye and almost al the content of his head had oozed out by the bullet hole - this is what you've done " the demon watched everything fron the third floor and laughted