 Manly Wade Wellman used raven mockers in his novel "The Old Gods Waken" (1979), where they were one of the many creatures of Appalachian folklore encountered by Silver John.Scott Nicholson used withered beings much like raven mockers in his novel "They Hunger" (2007), where they were encountered in a gorge similar to the Linville Gorge Wilderness area of Appalachia.P.C.