The Return

Product Details:

ISBN: 0451206878

ISBN-13: 9780451206879

Format: Mass Market Paperback, 368pp

Publisher: Signet

Summary:

Glen Ridgeway leaves his Job on Friday to go to Arizona for the weekend, to sell some land that his mother left him when she died recently. When he left California he fully expected to be returning by Monday, but decides somewhere along the way to take a little vacation from his run of the mill life and do some traveling. While in Springerville (where his mother’s property is) he goes to see some Indian ruins to kill some time and ends up accepting a job as an intern on the Archeological dig in the nearby town of bower.

The strangeness begins even before Glen arrives as workers dig up a Saxon child’s toy, a figurine with a mummified child’s hand attached to it, and Greek money. The day he starts working at the site a woman finds a piece of pottery with her face on it and glen finds the skull of something that is neither human nor animal but something else entirely strange and somehow evil, with weird a weird orange main of hair still on it.

While Across the south west at Anasazi ruins everywhere strange things are happening, as well as at museums that are housing their artifacts. Glen and the others are coming to believe that the skull they found belongs to the legendary Mongolian Monster and that it wiped out the Anasazi people and it was coming back to wipe them out if they don’t find a way to destroy it first.     

Review:

After reading this fast paced masterpiece of horror fiction you’ll want to keep your lights on day and night for fear that the Mongolian Monster will come out of the night and kill you too. Between Bentley Little’s overwhelming imagination and the incredible way he writes so that everything on the pages seems to make perfect sense and contains an irrefutable logic that propels this story from just another novel to the realm of the truly possible. Of course there is no Mongolian Monster or is there?