A Guide to the Sections
DISCLAIMER
On being related (distantly) to the Jersey Devil,
and why this whole thing was probably a mistake
1
ONE
BeBop and I go to Galloway Township
5
TWO
‘Everyone liked being related’
5
THREE
BeBop’s beef with Harry Leeds
8
FOUR
Harry does something peculiar
11
FIVE
I take the casino bus to find the Jersey Devil
14
SIX
BeBop’s family arrives in Leeds Point
17
SEVEN
BeBop and I go to Bombay
22
EIGHT
BeBop prevents civil war
24
NINE
West Jersey as Quaker utopia
26
TEN
Keith’s beef with the Public Friends
28
ELEVEN
The libel trial of the Keithians
33
TWELVE
Daniel’s relationship with the Quakers at this time
39
THIRTEEN
The Kingdom of Lucerne, and a sharpshooter
42
FOURTEEN
I go to Wawa
53
FIFTEEN
Other conversations in chain retail shops
60
SIXTEEN
W.F. Mayers goes into the Pines
63
SEVENTEEN
Daniel Leeds is ‘Satan’s harbinger’
69
EIGHTEEN
The spiritual and carnal whoredoms of Quakers
72
NINETEEN
Daniel and the Cornbury clique
79
TWENTY
Weather events, and I fail to ask an important question
87
TWENTY-ONE
Uncle James shoots the sheriff of Henderson in the ass
92
TWENTY-TWO
A visit to the Booseum
95
TWENTY-THREE
Boo’s jump shot, and other Atlantic City icons
101
TWENTY-FOUR
Today’s morons, yesterday’s disowned Friends
103
TWENTY-FIVE
‘Lenin tried something different’
112
TWENTY-SIX
I am offered Combos
114
TWENTY-SEVEN
The 1909 Jabberwocky invasion
116
TWENTY-EIGHT
Folkroulette, and Mabel yells ‘Crackers’
129
TWENTY-NINE
A cabinet of curiosities, and ‘We had older heads’
132
THIRTY
Lord Whimsy proposes an investigation
134
THIRTY-ONE
Beck’s romantic Jersey Devil
138
THIRTY-TWO
Halpert’s Piney testimonies
145
THIRTY-THREE
‘Attitudes and ambitions’
149
THIRTY-FOUR
The feedback loop, and a ‘No-last-name-local’
152
THIRTY-FIVE
A C-list cryptid, and the loss of a certain elemental power
155
THIRTY-SIX
Instant nonstick folklore
158
THIRTY-SEVEN
Leut and the Devil Hunters
163
THIRTY-EIGHT
BeBop and I go into the Pines, and a memory of shad roe
167
THIRTY-NINE
A failed reconciliation, and why I feel rather like a shit
172
FORTY
An important caveat, and more Quaker refugees
178
FORTY-ONE
Harry Leeds revisited
181
FORTY-TWO
Harry doesn’t eat crabs
186
FORTY-THREE
‘Somebody worked overnight’
186
FORTY-FOUR
Return to the Galloway Muni Complex
190
FOURTY-FIVE
Daniel Leeds’ astrological toolkit
194
FORTY-SIX
Revisiting Daniel
202
FORTY-SEVEN
Ben Franklin, and Titan Leeds’ Ghost
207
FORTY-EIGHT
A walk in the woods with the Devil Hunters
211
FORTY-NINE
Bad productions
216
FIFTY
I meet a Piney
218
FIFTY-ONE
New Jersey Devil
221
FIFTY-TWO
Sante’s list of acceptable Jerseyana
227
FIFTY-THREE
A message from Harry Leeds’ ghost
230
FIFTY-FOUR
BeBop’s Jersey Devil
235
EPILOGUE
237
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