by T. Chris Martindale
1991 Warner Books
Wendigooooooo!
A corporate hunting trip goes horribly wrong. The first half does well building tension and atmosphere as the boss goes slowly insane, haunted by memories of childhood abuse, and threatens to completely flip out like Leslie Neilsen in Day of the Animals
Instead, he becomes a flesh eating Wendigo. A couple members of the trip survive, only to start becoming Wendigos themselves, growing taller with stretched out faces. In my head I pictured them like Ents with the faces of Bruce Campbell in Army of Darkness and couldn't shake the image afterwards.
The end gets bogged down in details about what kind of Indian magic will reverse the process and a bunch of explosions.
I'm looking forward to reading Martindale's Nightblood - uzi-toting 'Nam vet against a town of vampires!
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