User talk:Joepearson

I was quite surprised to find grue used in The Caves of Night by John Christopher, as it was written in 1958 and I had assumed grue as a back-construction from gruesome was original with the text adventure Zork ("It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.") around 1977.

Note that the novel was copyrighted and first published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1958. It was republished (by Sphere) in 1984.

Joepearson 17:54, 19 September 2007 (UTC)