Freddy's Book

The narrator, professor Jack Winesap, is given a manuscript by the son of a friend, a frightening, reclusive young man named Freddy Agaard who is giant-sized due to a glandular imbalance.

After the opening chapter, the rest of the novel is the narrator reading the story in Freddy's manuscript.

Lars-Goren Berquist is a middle-aged, vaguely medieval freeman who sets off on a journey to find and kill the Devil.

The ending is both anticlimactic and grippingly written: Lars-Goren does find the Devil, reclining in the form of a mountain in the wilderness, climbs the "mountain" and kills the Devil with a bone knife, and returns home to his wife.

Dave Langford reviewed Freddy's Book for White Dwarf #45, and stated that "The inner fantasy is rather good, and oddly reminiscent of R A Lafferty's work, in particular The Flame is Green.