Practical Demonkeeping
core novel 1992 Christopher Moore's Shared World
Record
| First published | 1992 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.84 (48,253 ratings, collected 2026-11-02) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780312070694 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Travis O'Hearn was born in 1900 and has not aged since 1919, when he summoned a demon named Catch to serve him. Catch is green, hungry and inclined to eat the people he meets, and Travis wants to be rid of him but has lost the incantations needed to do it. He traces them to Pine Cove, a fake Tudor town on the California coast, where he hopes to find the woman he once gave them to. Catch sees the town as a feast, and a djinn is also chasing him. The town's drifters, neo-pagans and womanizers are drawn into the chaos.
Where it sits
- Universe: Christopher Moore's Shared World
- Series: Pine Cove core; position 1 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Christopher Moore
Notes
- Moore's first novel.
- From the series record (Pine Cove): Three comic fantasy novels set in the small California town of Pine Cove, published 1992 to 2004.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Pine Cove: position 1 of 3: next The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove (1999)
- Internal chronology, within Christopher Moore's Shared World: position 1 of 11: next Bloodsucking Fiends (1995)
Sources
← Christopher Moore's Shared World dossier · All universes
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