The Rake himself is a horrific Animalistic Abomination that likes to stalk his victims at random, breaking into their homes to watch them sleep before viciously attacking them with his long, sharp claws.
In the original pasta, one victim was awoken from her bed at around 4am in the morning to him staring right at her, sitting at the foot of the bed. He then ran down the hall and proceeded to slash her daughter with his claws.
This story is quite terrifying. The narrator tells of a time when his father and his grandfather were hunting in the woods for coyotes, discovering several mutilated deer, unlike anything caused by a wild animal. A trail of blood leads them to an old abandoned school, where they discover the Rake feasting on a deer carcass. When they move to shoot him, the Rake pounces on the grandfather, tearing him into bits and pieces.
The fact that the oldest stories about the thing supposedly date to the 12th century, with the oldest story shown in the pasta dating to 1691. There are two possible interpretations of this, both of which are pretty unsettling. One is that the creature is immortal. The other is that there are more than one of these things out there.
story is quite terrifying. The narrator tells of a time when his father and his grandfather were hunting in the woods for coyotes, discovering several mutilated deer, unlike anything caused by a wild animal. A trail of blood leads them to an old abandoned school, where they discover the Rake feasting on a deer carcass. When they move to shoot him, the Rake pounces on the grandfather, tearing him into bits and pieces.