Citations:dero

One of a group of underground subhumans who kidnap humans for torture and food.

 * 1) * 1948 (2007), Richard S. Shaver, I Remember Lemuria and The return of Sathanas, page 84
 * No laughing matter now, these ugly dwarfs! They were dero, children of dero, enslaved in some manner by the derodite master who sought the death of all Mu!
 * 1) * 1987, Martin Gardner, Riddles of the sphinx, and other mathematical puzzle tales, Mathematical Association of America, ISBN 0883856336, page 62 (originally published Isaac Asimov's science fiction magazine, Volume 10)
 * They were supposed to be wicked creatures who lived underground, as described in Richard Shaver's notorious SF tales of the late forties. I had always assumed that Shaver's stories were pure fiction, yet here I was, talking to a dero!