The Dirty Son of A Witch: Hunting the Jersey Devil
Each DiGerolamo book is a different legend or story, kind of like a new episode of a TV show. It's comedy/horror, sort of like Ghostbusters with drunken hillbillies.
In 1732, Mother Leeds gave birth to the infamous Jersey Devil, which has roamed the Pine Barrens ever since.
Or so the story goes…
The truth is, Mother Leeds was a witch and opened the portals to Hell unleashing hundreds of devils into woods. But the villagers next door in Abe’s Hat noticed and formed a secret hunting society to track down the fiends and send them back to the Abyss. Their descendants continue the Hunt in secret to this day.
This is the premise for the wacky books and characters that inhabit Tony DiGerolamo’s creative mind. I met Tony at Author’s Night at the Atlantic City Historical Society. He’s a very sociable guy and we had a good conversation. He’s a South Jersey native and a Piney, from what I gather. His table was filled with colorful books loaded with crazy characters. Once you open the first pages of his book, Piney’s, you’ll recognize local names rooted in the past of towns and places that got their names.
Pineys is series about a family of hunters that hunt the kin of the Jersey Devil. It's steeped in South Jersey flavor and folklore. In the 1730s Mother Leeds (mother of the Jersey Devil) was a witch and she opened the portals of Hell and flooded the Pine Barrens with devils. This did not go unnoticed by the villagers in nearby Abe's Hat. They formed a secret hunting society to hunt down the devils and send them back to Hell. Their ancestors continue the hunt to this day.
The main characters are four cousins: Hemingway, Milton, Shelly and Lewis. We follow them as they confront South Jersey legends like Bloody John Bacon, Indian Ann, The Atco Ghost, Sammy Buck, the Egg Harbor Blob, The Woman in White, The Fountain of Youth, Route 55, witches, ghosts and, of course, the Jersey Devil. Each book is a different legend or story, kind of like a new episode of a TV show. It's comedy/horror, sort of like Ghostbusters with drunken hillbillies.
The most recent book is Book 17: 76 Piney. The Pineys end up going back in time to the Revolutionary War where an evil entity seeks to destroy America by overrunning Philadelphia with zombies near the end of the war. Hemingway and his cousins team up with George, Ben, Thomas and Betsy to save America and put history back on track. Some of the legends include Bloody John Bacon, Sibbel Shaler, the Founding Fathers and, of course, Betsy Ross who was a South Jersey girl.
Here's his Amazon ink:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082SCFW9R?binding=kindle_edition&ref=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_pc_tkin
Tony DiGerolamo
Tony has a very impressive resume. He is a New Jersey screenwriter, novelist, comic book writer, game designer and comedian. He is best known for his work on The Simpsons and Bart Simpson comic books. He has also been a joke writer for Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, a scriptwriter for Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and a blogger for Comedy Central’s Indecision website.
He has written the screenplays including Mafioso: The Father, The Son starring Leo Rossi. His novels, Fix in Overtime and The Undercover Dragon are available through Padwolf Publishing.
After publishing his own comic books (Jersey Devil, The Travelers and The Fix) with SJRP, he eventually got a publishing deal with Kenzer & Company. Kenzer published The Travelers. Tony also wrote Everknights (another Kenzer comic book), as well as the Hacklopedia of Beasts (Volumes 1 thru 8) and Slaughterhouse Indigo (an adventure for the Hackmaster RPG).
He also adapted Mark Twain's Personal Reflections of Joan of Arc for Campfire. Performing in the Philly comedy scene for over ten years, Tony performed and directed such improv groups as Next Line Improv, The Cabal, The Ninjas and Bulletproof Giraffe.
Besides writing for various comedy websites, he had a long running comics review column in Knights of the Dinner Table magazine. He was the marketing director for comics publisher, Silent Devil.
He is creator of Tony DiGerolamo’s Complete Mafia for d20, creator/biographer for the online webcomic, Super Frat at
http://www.superfrat.com, the co-creator of the Webcomic Factory. http://www.webcomicfactory.com
He is writer for the over two dozen webcomics on the Webcomic Factory site including Lester Crenshaw is Still Dead, Pandamodium and Tales of Pizza.
He also wrote F*ck You, I’m Italian: Why We Italians Are Awesome, from Ulysses Press. His current project is a comedy/horror novella series about the hunters of the kin of the Jersey Devil called The Pineys. You can find all his ebooks and books on Amazon and his thoughts on writing and politics on his YouTube, Bitchute, Odysee and Rumble Channels with his cohost, his dog, Joan of Arc.
My books are also available on Amazon. Click the graphic.
