Set among the pine woodlands of southern New Jersey, this novella brings F. Paul Wilson's taste for cosmic horror to the legend of the Jersey Devil, treating the region's oldest monster story as something considerably stranger and older than folklore. Written as part of Wilson's wider Cthulhu Mythos short fiction, it reads the Barrens as a landscape where Lovecraftian forces and small-town legend turn out to be the same thing.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Placement
- Cthulhu Mythos short fiction
- contained in Cthulhu 2000: A Lovecraftian Anthologyanthology
- contained in Never Fearanthology
- contained in Secret Stories: Tales from the Secret Historycollection
- contained in The Barrens and Otherscollection