Grue may refer to:

People

* A pen name used by cartoonist

Johnny Gruelle John Barton Gruelle (December 24, 1880 – January 9, 1938) was an American artist, political cartoonist, children's book and comics author, illustrator, and storyteller. He is best known as the creator of Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy dolls and ...

* Grue (surname), notable people with the surname Grue

Places

Grue, Norway Grue is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Solør. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Kirkenær. Other villages in the municipality include Bergesida, Grinder, ...

, a municipality in Innlandet county *

Isle-aux-Grues Isle-aux-Grues ( French for "island of cranes") is an island situated on the Saint Lawrence River, in the municipality of Saint-Antoine-de-l'Isle-aux-Grues, in the Montmagny Regional County Municipality (MRC), in administrative region of Chaud ...

, an island in Quebec, Canada *

Grues, Vendée Grues () is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France. Geography The river Lay forms most of the commune's western border. See also *Communes of the Vendée department The following is a list of th ...

, a commune in France *

Grue (river) The Grue is a torrent in north-west Italy, a right tributary of the Scrivia, whose course lies entirely within the Province of Alessandria, Piedmont. The river’s source is at Bocchetta del Barillaro, at an elevation of close to the watershed ...

, a river in north-west Italy

In fiction

Grue (monster) A grue is a fictional, predatory creature that dwells in the dark. The term was first used to identify a human-bat hybrid predator in the ''Dying Earth'' series. The term was then borrowed to introduce a similar monster in ''Zork'', a 1977 intera ...

, a fictional predatory creature invented by American author Jack Vance and featured in the ''

Zork ''Zork'' is a text-based adventure game first released in 1977 by developers Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling for the PDP-10 mainframe computer. The original developers and others, as the company Infocom, expanded and ...

'' series of interactive fiction computer games * Grue (Freedom City), an alien race in the role-playing game ''Mutants and Masterminds'' * Grue/Brian Laborn, a supervillain in the web novel ''

Worm Worms are many different distantly related bilateral animals that typically have a long cylindrical tube-like body, no limbs, and no eyes (though not always). Worms vary in size from microscopic to over in length for marine polychaete wor ...

Other

* ''Grue'' and ''bleen'', portmanteau words formed from ''green'' and ''blue'', coined by Nelson Goodman to illustrate his

new riddle of induction The new riddle of induction was presented by Nelson Goodman in ''Fact, Fiction, and Forecast'' as a successor to Hume's original problem. It presents the logical predicates grue and bleen which are unusual due to their time-dependence. Many have ...

* ''Grue'', a linguistic and translation concept (see

Blue–green distinction in language In many languages, the colors described in English as "blue" and "green" are colexified, i.e. expressed using a single cover term. To describe this English lexical gap, linguists use the portmanteau word ''grue'', from ''green'' and ''blue'' ...

) *

Crane (bird) Cranes are a family, the Gruidae, of large, long-legged, and long-necked birds in the group Gruiformes. The 15 species of cranes are placed in three genera, ''Antigone'', ''Balearica'', and '' Grus''. Unlike the similar-looking but unrelated her ...

, a bird from the Grue family * ''Grue'', an influential science fiction fanzine published by

Dean Grennell Dean A. Grennell (November 1, 1923 – April 10, 2004) was an American firearms expert, writer/editor, and active science fiction fan. He was the managing editor of ''Gun World'' magazine and editor of the science fiction fanzine ''Grue''. Bac ...

* An early form of

Nutraloaf Nutraloaf (also known as meal loaf, prison loaf, disciplinary loaf, food loaf, lockup loaf, confinement loaf, seg loaf, grue or special management meal) is food served in prisons in the United States and formerly in Canada to inmates who have ...

, a food served in prison, known as "grue" to prisoners in the Arkansas penal system as described in the 1978 ''Hutto v. Finney'' decision