Jump to: navigation, search Running with the Demon Running with the Demon.jpg Author Terry Brooks Cover artist Gerald Brom Country United States Language English Series Word & Void series Genre(s) Dark Fantasy novel Publisher Del Rey Books Publication date 19 August 1997 Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Pages 420 pp (hardcover edition) 448 pp (paperback edition) ISBN 0-345-37962-4 OCLC Number 36582033 Dewey Decimal 813/.54 21 LC Classification PS3552.R6596 R86 1997 Followed by A Knight of the Word Running with the Demon is the first book in the Word & Void fantasy series, written by Terry Brooks as a prequel to his Shannara series. It was first published in 1997 by Ballantine's Del Rey division. The story takes place in the town of Hopewell, Illinois, around the Fourth of July in 1997. It concerns two magic-users, Nest Freemark and John Ross as they try to stop a demon that has come to town. It is followed by the novel A Knight of the Word.
