DeCandido Based on the hit CW series SUPERNATURAL created by Eric Kripke To the late great Scott Muni, for informing so much of the music of my childhood . . . To John, Jack, Ray, Doug, Kathy, Janyce, Arleen, Kevin, and all the other nutjobs on the paper, Fordham University’s alternative paper, who gave me my first great publishing experience . . . To Edgar Allan Poe, who lived a hard life, but whose groundbreaking work will live on forever . . . And in general to the Bronx, the place where I was born and live, the place where I grew up, the place where I was educated, and still New York’s best kept secret. Boogie down! I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. —Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart” Contents Epigraph iii Historian’s Note viii One A chill November breeze blew John Soeder’s hair into his… 1 Two “That’s the problem with the job, Sammy, sometimes you hit… 13 Three “How can there be so many people on one road?”
