It was passed down from generation to generation. The legend of the Dark 'Un, the strange beast that roamed Pale Dove Mountain. The dark monster that no one had ever seen—at least not and lived to tell about it—except, so it was said, old Fletcher Brice who lived at the foot of the mountain. No one really believed in The Dark 'Un. It was just a story to make a child's flesh crawl. Until Old Man Brice died. Now, the people of Tucker's Mill, Tennessee, would be forced to believe.