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The selected opening story follows Pap Wilson after an injury among kudzu and hidden sinkholes, when an unseen, monstrous entity attaches to his leg and consumes tissue with vicious, barbed mechanics. Panic turns to frantic prayer as family members rush to respond, establishing dread, survival urgency, and dark rural folklore throughout.","Backwoods  \n(Classic Monsters Series) Presented By Kevin J. Kennedy  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nBackwoods © 2026 Kevin J. Kennedy Edited by Ann Keeran & Kevin J. Kennedy Cover design by Michael Bray  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.  \nFirst Printing, 2026  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nDedication  \nThis book is dedicated to Carlito Kennedy. He was our little black cat that passed recently. We miss him every single day.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nTable of Contents  \nConsumption  \nBy  \nRonald Kelly  \nThe Mother  \nBy  \nNenad Mitrović  \nCountry Air Ain’t Cutting It  \nBy  \nMark Towse  \nSick ‘Un  \nBy  \nElizabeth Massie  \nThe Archer  \nBy  \nGlenn Rolfe  \nFor Whom the Bells Hum  \nBy  \nRaven Tomes  \nThe Mountain Witch of Old  \nBy  \nJosh Davis  \nThe Perfect Hiding Place  \nBy  \nDawn DeBraal  \nThe Pannonian Demon  \nBy  \nBoris Mišić  \nFish Bait  \nBy  \nJohn Everson  \nThe Corn Maidens  \nBy  \nBrian Moreland  \nThe Last Path  \nBy  \nDJ Cooper  \nWe Take Care Of Our Own  \nBy  \nJohn Everson  \nBobby Jo’s Very Bad Day  \nBy  \nRichard Beauchamp  \nThe Chalk Eaters  \nBy  \nRyan Colley  \nA (Bad) Day in the Life of a Hillbilly Slasher  \nBy  \nSam Whittaker  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nConsumption By Ronald Kelly  \nPap Wilson was returning home from a tedious day of digging ginseng down yonder in a backwoods hollow. His spirits were high and his sack held a good eighty dollars worth of the medicinal root. He was only a hoot and a holler away from the old log cabin his grandfather had built shortly after the Civil War, when his foot sank through the dense carpeting of wild kudzu and into what he first thought to be a sinkhole hidden from sight.  \n“Confound it all!” said the old man as a sudden jolt of pain shot up the length of his right leg. When he attempted to pull his boot from the opening in the round, a sensation of prickly discomfort gripped him, as if his foot had fallen asleep. However, his injury proved to be much more serious than that. Red-hot needles of agony stitched his flesh in a dozen places, causing him to moan aloud.  \nPap, you damned fool! he told himself. You’ve done gone and put your foot into a nest of copperheads!  \nBut snakes were far from being the source of his discomfort.  \nWith a curse and mighty heave, Pap extracted his leg from the kneedeep kudzu and landed hard on his backside in the thicket. For a moment, all he could do was sit there and stare dumbly at his foot. Something had a hold of Pap Wilson. Something he had never seen the likes of during his seventy-odd years in the hills and hollows of Tennessee.  \nTiny black eyes glared up at him, burning with an emotion that could only be described as intense hunger. What it appeared to be was a very large and stubby caterpillar, the wooly kind that built great transparent nests in the boughs of blooming dogwoods in the heart of springtime. But several disturbing differences separated that creature from any insect that Pap had ever encountered. A thick coat of bristles covered the cylindrical body of the ugly thing. The old man poked at its back with the end of his walking stick. The cane emerged covered with long quills, five to seven inches in length, each as sharp and barbed at the end as a fish hook.  \nAs the pain grew increasingly worse, Pap’s attention was reluctantly drawn to the bloody, black maw that encircled his lower leg. It worked  \nravenously, awful sounds of sucking tearing rising from deep within its gullet. The teeth were triangular ivory razors. 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