This slow-burning page-turner will appeal to Brooks's devoted fans and speculative fiction readers who enjoy tales of monsters.' - Publishers Weekly 'Brooks creates vivid landscapes and.packs his plot with action, information, and atmosphere, and captures both the foibles and the heroism of his characters. A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy.' - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) 'Brooks is a pro at building suspense even if it plays out in some rather spectacularly yucky episodes.Grossness aside, it puts you right there on the scene. Part survival narrative, part bloody horror tale, part scientific journey into the boundaries between truth and fiction, this is a Bigfoot story as only Max Brooks could chronicle it-and like none you've ever read before. We must accept that the creature known as Bigfoot walks among us-and that it is a beast of terrible strength and ferocity. Kate's is a tale of unexpected strength and resilience, of humanity's defiance in the face of a terrible predator's gaze, and inevitably, of savagery and death.īecause if what Kate Holland saw in those days is real, then we must accept the impossible. In these pages, Max Brooks brings Kate's extraordinary account to light for the first time, faithfully reproducing her words alongside his own extensive investigations into the massacre and the legendary beasts behind it.

As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier's eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed unnoticed, unexamined.until now.īut the journals of resident Kate Holland, recovered from the town's bloody wreckage, capture a tale too harrowing-and too earth-shattering in its implications-to be forgotten.

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