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A monster lurks in the Canadian forests. If the legends are to be believed, a small band of hunters is about to meet the Wendigo. The legend of the Wendigo originates from folk stories from the Plains and Great Lakes Native Americans. The creature is a malevolent spirit, known to possess and even eat humans.

Deep within the Canadian Rockies, buried beneath a mile of granite and fifty years of silence, lies Helix Station. History has forgotten Helix Station, once a Cold War black site, but not everyone has forgotten it. Dr. Elena Cathcart, a brilliant geneticist for Nexus Pharmaceuticals, believes she is leading a routine expedition to investigate a geological anomaly. She is mistaken. They have sent her, along with battle-hardened operative Jake Hansen and tech prodigy Marcus Singh, to awaken a hidden force.

A brutal snowstorm traps five strangers in a remote cabin deep in the northern pines. When mutilated animals, strange symbols, and violent visions begin to surface, it becomes clear something ancient is hunting them in the dark. An emaciated figure with antlers watches from the trees—silent, calculating, and starving. As survival instincts turn to madness, the line between man and monster begins to blur. Inspired by real Native American folklore, this chilling cryptid horror thriller explores what happens when the cold sets in—and something colder follows. Wendigo: Hunger in the Pines ...

Days from civilisation five men are about to experience something beyond the rational. In the snow slaked wilds where the natives fear to tread, these men search for moose but find something more terrifying and supernatural. With a rush of wind and the smell of feral nature one of their number is whisked away, leaving them wondering: Who might be next?

The nightmare didn’t end in the clearing. It just learned to hunt in a pack. Lena Miller barely escaped the Adirondacks with her life, but the trauma of what happened to her husband followed her home. Plagued by nightmares and consumed by guilt, she knows the ancient, terrifying presence in the deep timber is still waiting. Now, armed with silver and backed by a heavily equipped, battle-hardened tracker, she is going back to finish it. But the cursed property hasn’t been sitting empty. A new, oblivious couple has just rented the beautifully renovated property for a weekend getaway. As ...

Dos de los relatos más inquietantes de la literatura de terror reunidos en un solo volumen. En Los sauces, un viaje por el Danubio se transforma en una experiencia perturbadora donde la naturaleza parece cobrar conciencia. En El Wendigo, una expedición en los bosques de Canadá desvela una presencia ancestral que acecha más allá de lo humano. Algernon Blackwood, maestro del horror psicológico y precursor del terror cósmico, construye historias donde lo invisible se vuelve insoportable. Terror psicológico Horror cósmico Naturaleza inquietante Clásicos del género Perfecto para ...

Rick Yancey’s first gothic suspense tale, The Monstrumologist, earned him a prestigious Michael L. Printz Award. The second installment of this acclaimed series, Curse of the Wendigo, finds young Will Henry on the hunt for a supernatural beast plaguing New England in the late 1800s. Will and his mentor, the domineering Dr. Warthrop, are enlisted to help the doctor’s former fiancée. It seems her husband has been lost in the Canadian wilderness.

Unravel the Meaning Behind Ancient Native American Myths Long before the written word, Indigenous tribes across North America passed down powerful oral traditions—stories of mighty Thunderbirds, trickster spirits, and dark omens that shaped their understanding of the world. But these myths are more than just stories—they reveal deep spiritual insights, survival wisdom, and the forces that shaped Native cultures. In Native American Myths: Stories & Their Hidden Meanings, explore not only the myths themselves but also the deeper symbolism, history, and impact they have had on Indigenous ...

In Wendigo Chronicles, author and researcher, Erik Lake, has gathered a collection of harrowing tales, each a personal encounter with this chilling legend. These stories are not mere fiction; they are confessions, experiences shared by those who have felt the icy touch of fear, who have looked into the abyss and found something staring back. From the frozen depths of northern forests to the eerie stillness of abandoned towns, each narrative takes you closer to understanding the true essence of this ancient evil. This anthology is an exploration of our deepest fears – of insatiable hunger,...

Some things in the woods only look natural. Blake Ellison and her teenage daughter, Priscilla, desperately needed a quiet weekend away to mend their fractured relationship. But deep in the freezing mountain foothills, their retreat shatters when a towering, unnatural beast forces their truck off the pavement and into the dark. Stranded in the remote wilderness, they are hunted by a predator that should not exist—a terrifying aberration that mimics human voices, weaponizes their deepest traumas, and refuses to let them leave. What begins as a desperate attempt to fix their family becomes a...

Five friends ice fishing in the far northern part of Minnesota’s Upper Peninsula encounter something out of their worst nightmares. A creature from myth and legend. A creature with an insatiable appetite. Sending out a call for help, they can only pray it reaches them in time. Team Odin arrives to find a creature like nothing they have ever faced before. From out of the nightmares of the frozen north comes the Wendigo. The Spirit of Hunger with a lust for human flesh. The fate of the survivors and the entire team rests on finding a way to defeat the cannibalistic beast. Battling the ...

In 1865, the American frontier was dark and foreboding. Settlers and pioneers faced danger at every turn, some vanishing without a trace. It took a special breed to tame this land and face the threats that lurked just outside the firelight. The U.S Marshals dispatched a special team of deputies for this task. Declan Caine and his Nightmare Hunters were sent to bring down the deadliest creatures that stalked the land. Creatures that most people refuse to believe exist. A mysterious rider arrives at the home of Declan Caine with an urgent message to report immediately to the local garrison. ...

Part lawman, part tracker and part magician, the Wardens are monster-hunters - tasked with protecting the people from the various, nightmarish creatures that have invaded the world of men. However, despite being descended from a long line of Wardens, 16-year-old Errol Magnus believes it to be the absolute worst job on the planet: How could a single occupation simultaneously be the most boring, abominably stupid, and extraordinarily dangerous profession imaginable?

William Kent Krueger is the award-winning author of the popular Cork O’Connor mysteries. In Purgatory Ridge, Krueger crafts a riveting tale which has ex-sheriff O’Connor on the case after a heated town debate turns deadly. The local Anishinaabe Indian tribe is furious to discover that Karl Lindstrom’s lumber mill is after a grove of trees sacred to tribal lore. So when the mill gets bombed, killing a man, the tribe is blamed. But O’Connor has a different theory.

Wendigo – Book Three of Kisses and Chaos Luther Sweetwater joined LifeEnders—a government-sanctioned group of assassins—with the best of intentions. He wanted to protect America, take out the worst of the worst, and maybe even be a hero. Explaining that to her mom (aka his boss) was awkward enough. Then the government called. An old case has resurfaced, and Luther jumps at the chance to make things right. It should’ve been a simple job—point, click, bad guy gone. But nothing is ever that easy. Instead, Luther ends up in the crosshairs of another LifeEnders assassin. With the help ...

The award-winning author of the best-selling Cork O’Connor series, William Kent Krueger pens novels with pulse-racing suspense. In Windigo Island, the corpse of an Ojibwe girl washes ashore, and locals at the Bad Bluff reservation believe it to be the work of the mythical Windigo. But the dead girl’s friend is also missing, and sheriff-turned-PI Cork O’Connor will brave any danger to bring her home.

Winter 2017. Freyston, Maine. A remote town buried in snow—and in secrets. Otha and her brother arrive to visit their grandfather, only to find him changed. Gaunt. Hollow-eyed. Wrong. Some say it’s dementia. Others whisper a darker word: Wendigo. As the storm closes in, so does the truth about what happened to him in the wilderness years ago—and why he survived when everyone else died.

MANITOU RISING In the winter forests of 17th-century Huron Country, sickness spreads like a curse. Children whisper in voices not their own. Bodies twist, bleed, and break without cause. The elders fear disease—but Waban, a respected Wendat (Huron) shaman, knows the truth is far worse. Something ancient has crossed into the living world. A spirit that does not belong to this land. As the tribe fractures under fear and the pressures of the lucrative fur trade, a Jesuit priest arrives with fire and scripture, convinced the Devil hides behind every native rite. To Father LeClair, salvation ...

The Wendigo is an intense, atmospheric journey through the dark corners of Native American mythology and the raw emotional landscape of grief and survival. The novel's protagonist, Taka, is a young man burdened with loss, rage, and a curse that comes from within his own heart. The presence of the Wendigo adds an eerie, supernatural tension that propels the narrative forward, making it impossible to put down.

"When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you.” - Friedrich Nietzsche From Ethan Hayes, the bestselling author of WHAT LURKS BEYOND and ENCOUNTERS IN THE WOODS comes a new series which focuses on the darkest and most gruesome stories he has collected. These stories detail strange and mysterious accounts from the people who encountered them and survived to tell their tale. From violent encounters with Bigfoot and Sasquatch to demons and spirits who haunt and torture their victims. The stories in the pages ahead will most certainly strike fear and leave you keeping the light ...