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Hi, my name is Robert Lamb, and this is The Monster Fact, a short-form series from Stuff to Blow Your Mind, focusing on mythical creatures, ideas, and monsters in time.

In March of 1977, Penthouse magazine published a short story by Stephen King called Children of the Corn,

alongside a pro-Nixon Watergate piece and photos of Polish model, Jolanta von Zemuda.

It was a nasty and highly effective little short story about a troubled couple on a road trip across America's heartland,

right into the corn-choked expanses of Nebraska

and the clutches of a strange youth cult that venerated a being known only as he who walks

behind the rose, represented in crude local folk art as a kind of pagan green-haired Christ.

King writes of it as, quote, a strange green god, a god of corn grown old

and strange and hungry. And later on, he describes it as a large shadow with great red eyes

moving behind row upon row of perfect corn. The being in question here may have connections to the titular entity from it, as well as other beings in the Stephen King universe.

And in the 2006 Malias Mastrorum monster book from the RPG Call of Cthulhu,

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