BLACKBOOK (noun)

   Old.

An older term for a notebook carried by a runner where they would chronicle their daily lives running from the Misery-Makers. So called for two reasons: 1. the notebooks were often bound with black leather. 2. a number of notebooks later found had all their pages covered in black ink, thus rendering them unreadable. It is unknown if they were done so by the runners themselves to prevent others from reading their notebooks or if they were done by a different party to prevent the spread of information about the Misery-Makers. If it was a different party, however, one wonders why they did not simply burn or destroy the books, but perhaps they were compelled to keep them just as the runners were compelled to write them.

   Example: After finding shelter, he wrote about the day's events in his blackbook, careful to keep everything in code.

Other terms: running journal, misery log, fearblog (current).