What is "croatoan"

Croatoan may refer to:

• Croatoan Island (now Hatteras Island) on the Outer Banks of North Carolina
• "Croatoan", a 1975 short story by Harlan Ellison
• An alternate spelling of the Croatan tribe
• the word "Croatoan" carved into a tree on Roanoke Island at the site of the Lost Colony in 1590
• "Croatoan", an episode of the U.S. television series Supernatural

"Croatoan" is a short story by Harlan Ellison, published in 1975 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and both anthologized in Strange Wine and released in an illustrated version in Heavy Metal in 1978. The story was short-listed for a Hugo Award, and won a Locus Award. The story is also used for a specimen of analysis by Stephen King in Danse Macabre.