Running with the Demon
- Published
- 1 January 1997
- Pages
- 420
- ISBN-13
- 9781841495446
- Type
- novel
About this book
Running with the Demon opened Word and Void in 1997 at 420 pages -- its longest volume -- introducing John Ross and Nest Freemark as a demon arrives in small-town Hopewell, Illinois, over a single fateful Fourth of July weekend.
Key facts about Running with the Demon
Running with the Demon is a novel by Terry Brooks. Readers have had it since 1997. It runs to 420 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Running with the Demon. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781841495446 to find the main one.
Running with the Demon is book 1 of 3 in the Word and Void series. The series has 3 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
Additionally, Terry Brooks writes The Original Shannara Trilogy, The Magic Kingdom of Landover and The Heritage of Shannara, plus 9 more series. Those series sit on our epic fantasy, fantasy and urban fantasy shelves. Meanwhile, Brona is the latest published Terry Brooks book on file, from 25 August 2026.
About Terry Brooks
Terry Brooks is one of modern fantasy's most commercially important authors, best known for The Sword of Shannara (1977), which became the first work of fantasy fiction to appear on the New York Times bestseller list and proved, alongside Tolkien's continuing popularity, that there was a mass commercial audience for epic fantasy. See every Terry Brooks book in order.
Its place in Word and Void
Running with the Demon is book 1 in the Word and Void series. It is followed by A Knight of the Word. See the full Word and Void reading order.
Terry Brooks's Word and Void trilogy is his only Shannara-adjacent work set in the real, contemporary world, following John Ross, a Knight of the Word cursed with visions of a devastated future America if he fails in his mission, and Nest Freemark, a girl in small-town Hopewell, Illinois, whose latent magic and family secrets make her central to the hidden fight between the Word (order, magic, and the natural world) and the Void (chaos and corruption). Running with the Demon introduces both characters as a demon…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781841495446