Other editions of book The Devil in the Woods

"I met the devil in the woods when I was nine years old. I had been warned about him, but only in that oblique way that adults have of warning children about things parents believe are beyond a child's understanding. Parents have it backward, really. As children, we knew things that terrified us so badly we rushed to grow up and forget about them. But forgetting about them didn't make them any less real...""The Devil in the Woods" is a novella about learning the world is stranger than we have imagined, and that there is a price that must be paid in order to be a hero.