The Bog
by Talbot, Michael
From the back coverTHE BOGTo a small English village, it is a vast organic presence, as ancient as time itself and seething with hidden life and forbidden legends...THE BOGTo its victims, it is a nameless horror beyond description, a razor-toothed evil, rising up from the murky depths to feast on human prey...THE BOGTo archaeologist David Macauley and his family, it is the ultimate scientific mystery—and the ultimate experiment in terror...From Library JournalFor modern-day archaeologist David Macauley, Hovern Bog proves a rich source of bog bodies (ancient human remains preserved intact by chemicals in the peat water) and, ultimately, a near-catastrophic horror show for him, his family, and the nearby villagers of Fenchurch St. Jude. While exploring, Macauley encounters sinister local nobleman Grenville and his blood-thirsty demon, Julia. Grenville and Julia, both seemingly immortal, have terrorized the local countryside since the days of the Celts and the Romans. In that long-ago time Julia used Hovern Bog as a dumping ground; now for the most part, she is content slaughtering sheep. But with the appearance of the snoopy Professor Macauley things at Hovern Bog take a bloody turn for the worse.