Several years ago, long before I penned Bigfoot War, I wrote a little book entitled How the West Went to Hell. In it, a demon apocalypse, driven by a gent dressed in white, created an old west world that I fell in love with. I always had plans to revisit it but didn’t really know what I was going to do with that world. As the first arc of the Bigfoot War saga came to an end with book III in the trilogy, I knew Bigfoot War IV was going to be a prequel that dealt with why my Sasquatch are the way they are and how the zombie virus that hits in book II came about. At the time I was outlining Bigfoot War IV, I was also writing a second Horror Western entitled A PACK OF WOLVES (which I consider to the best and most fun book I have ever done!). A Pack of Wolves picks up a few months after the events of How the West Went to Hell, in the state of Texas. It introduces the FARR FAMILY, a group of gunfighter, merc werewolves, and sets them on a course to collide head on with the later events of the Bigfoot War saga. All these events are tied together by “The Man in White” who appears in How the West Went to Hell, A Pack of Wolves, and Bigfoot War IV: Legion. Needless to say, Bigfoot War IV will feature werewolves, demons, the undead, AND course bigfoot hordes all in an epic showdown, OLD WEST style. So I hope that explains things a bit and helps you understand what’s going on with the series.
The western books go in order like this: How the West Went to Hell, A Pack of Wolves, and Bigfoot War IV: Legion while the series as a whole runs like this, those three then Bigfoot War I and II, Last Stand in a Dead Land, and finally Bigfoot War III.
Thank you all for your continued support. You have truly made Bigfoot War a raging success. I hope very much that you will do the same for A Pack of Wolves.
The war between Good and Evil has raged since before Time began.
Now the battle continues with the Ultimate Good versus the Ultimate Evil.
Metahumans vs the Undead
Metahuman: one of the human species endowed with one or more powers beyond that of mortal men; a person who uses those abilities to serve either themselves or society. Typically branded by a codename and colorful costume. AKA Superhero.
Undead: one of the human species endowed with life even after death; a walking corpse. Typically branded by their decayed form and appetite for human flesh. AKA Zombie.
In a world where superheroes and zombies collide, only one can prove the victor.
Featuring indie heroic favorites like Axiom-man, The Wraith and Shadowflame, while also introducing newcomers like Nightcat, Spectrolite, Midnight Angel and more, Metahumans vs the Undead is a terror-filled action adventure where Light and Darkness collide and only one can prevail.
Contains stories by: Rebecca Besser, Eric S. Brown, Frank Dirscherl, Lorne Dixon, A.P. Fuchs, Anthony Giangregorio, Keith Gouveia, J.L. MacDonald, Joe Martino, Rhiannon Paille, Gina Ranalli and J.B. Robb.
Armies of the dead swept across the globe, toppling civilization and bringing humanity to its knees. Now, as the dead virus has ran its course and is fading away, those who survived face a new terror: the ever-growing numbers of the Sasquacth species.
The Earth is an apocalyptic wasteland, survivors barely managing to make it day-by-day. Food is scarce, hope is hardly found.
Yet all turns on a dime when a secret base is discovered underground and it is learned that it might hold the hope for victory in this deadly world.
War breaks out, and this time man and machine combine as the struggle between humanity and the beasts wages anew to see who will hold the top spot on nature’s food chain.
The first Bigfoot War book took the cryptozoological horror world by storm. Now Eric S. Brown unleashes his follow-up, Bigfoot War 2: Dead in the Woods, with faster, meaner, more terrifying bloodthirsty sasquatches unlike any you’ve seen before.
This ain’t no Harry and the Henderson’s remix. This isn’t even like Sasquatch Mountain. We’re talking hordes of lean, mean killing machines covered in hair, with razor-sharp teeth and claws that’ll have you running for the door before you even finish the book.
The story:
Mere hours after the Babble Creek massacre, the beasts strike again, rampaging across the American Southeast. A small group of survivors in Jackson County, North Carolina, fight to stay alive as things get worse. Bigfoot is everywhere, terrorizing the citizens of Jackson County, tearing them limb from limb and feasting on their flesh. Even the powerful US military stands in awe as the enormous beasts take their stand against them, going toe-to-toe with some of man’s most lethal technology.
Just when the survivors thought it couldn’t get any worse, death kicks into high gear as the dead begin to rise, hungry for the flesh of the living.
The military, tasked with restoring order and destroying the beasts, now find themselves racing to contain a virus that could mean the end of the human race. Colonel Drake and the small unit of tanks under his command are trapped inside the quarantine zone as the war between man and beast is joined by the undead.
The body count rises. Humanity is on the run. The night is filled with terror, the vicious growls of the Sasquatch and the haunting moans of the living dead.
Hey all,
So today, I thought would tell you how my Bigfoot War trilogy came about. Back in 2001, I picked up the pen with my heart set on becoming a military SF writer and being the next David Drake. My first tale that sold was a zombie story and the zombie tales just kept selling even though back then they weren’t as mainstream as they are today. By 2003, I had accepted my fate and knew that I was a horror writer. I declared myself a “zombie” writer and promised I was going to try to give something back a genre that I dearly loved. I kept writing and around 2009 as my career began to really take off, I was getting a bit tired of writing zombie stuff. Not that I didn’t love them and I certainly didn’t stop writing them but I wanted to try something else. At the time I was in a three book deal with Coscom Entertainment and had turned in two of three zombie books to them. I told Coscom I didn’t really think a third zombie novel was the way to and pitched them the concept of BIGFOOT WAR. My books had done well enough for them that actually listened. I was given the green light and tore into it like crazed fan unwrapping the copy of Legend of Boggy Creek that had just arrived in the mail. As a child, Bigfoot had scared me to death. Living in the south, my nightmares were haunted by the creature standing outside my window waiting to eat me. I also grew up watching and loving Bigfoot B movies just like I had Z films. The one thing that always got me though was that was only one monster! Why? My fan boy horror mind couldn’t comprehend why there wasn’t a Bigfoot movie with a more end of the world feel like all the zombie stuff out there. I so loved the idea of folks battling hopeless odds and one Sasquatch just wasn’t enough. With Bigfoot War, I set out to create the Bigfoot film I had always wanted to see: A sleepy little of town of around eight hundreds folks who overnight thrown into a battle for survival with a horde of raging, flesh eating beasts out of vengeance and blood. And that’s really what Bigfoot War is. The Sasquatch mythos rebooted to make it into a survival horror concept. From page one, the action keeps rolling and the body count only grows. As soon as I finished the book, I knew it was only the start. This had to be a trilogy. The first book came out and its sales were kind of low for its first couple of months but then a funny thing happened. As folks begin to learn about it and see what it was about, it quickly became the best reviewed and most original work of my career to date. The world went insane for me with fan letters about it, its sales grew with each and every month, and I did a happy dance that a book I wrote from my heart surprised me hugely with its success. In March alone, it sold almost double what it did during its entire first quarter on the market. (A huge thank you to all the fans who made this happen for me!)
Anyway, not long after the first book began to take off, I went back to Coscom and they took the other two books of the trilogy no questions. Bigfoot War II: Dead in the Woods is slated for release in late April, early May of this year. And if anything, it’s crazier than the first book as it throws the zombie apocalypse into the middle of the already raging war between man and beast. It tells the tale of two teenage horror/comic fans who are there as things kick into high gear and the end of the world begins. The book also has a second plot arc that deals with the story of a unit of tanks who are cut off from their main force and stuck in the area where the initial Z outbreak is beginning while on their missions to eliminate the big, hairy beasts of the first book who coming out of the woods in even greater numbers all over the South. I am currently at work on the 3rd book as I type this. I can’t say much about it yet but I don’t think you’ve ever seen anything like it either. It’s working title is Bigfoot War: Food Chain. So I am out of time for the day folks but I will be back on here next week with more. Have a good weekend all.
ESB
PS- Oh yeah, if you haven’t read it yet or seen the trailer, check them out. The first book in the trilogy is available through Amazon, Bn, etc. Just check out the links to it on this site. Thanks if you do!
As promised, here’s a free Yeti read. It’s not perfectly proofed. Sorry about that. Massive tech issues set me back time wise today and I figured a tale was better than no tale at all. Hope you enjoy.
Red Snow
By
Eric S Brown
The snow around Adam was red as he scrambled to his feet. He had been running so fast the slickness of the layer of ice atop the white ground had taken his footing from him. His half slide, half roll down the hill had ended violently against the thick trunk of a tree. The blood from the large scrap covering the right side of his face was already cooling and freezing to what remained of his cheek. There was no choice but ignore the pain and keep moving.
His rifle was gone. Lost half a mile behind him where his flight had begun. Adam’s ragged, panting breaths looked like smoke in the frigid air as he pushed himself on. Despite his orders, despite Dr. Weston’s claims, he hadn’t really believed. The whole op. was nothing more than a screwed up joke to him until his team had found what they were looking for or rather it had found them. The monster, there was no better word to describe it, had come roaring from the trees, so fast and without warning, they hadn’t stood a chance. It gutted the colonel where he stood. Adam vividly remembered the sight of the colonel’s intestines steaming in the snow at his feet. Johnson died next. The beast’s overly large hand had taken his head from his shoulders with a single swipe, filling the air with spraying blood. Even as the monster moved among them, it was difficult to see. The thing was as white as the ground around them and so fast it seemed to blur. The beast lifted Hyatt effortlessly and literally ripped him in half, tossing his torso one way and the lower half of his body in the other. Daniels managed to open fire on the thing. His rifle chattered as the rounds cut a trail of red across the beast’s back, staining its fur. Dr. Weston was screaming the entire time. Adam had exchanged a quick glance with Long, the only other surviving member of the squad as the thing tore Daniels’ still beating heart from his chest. It’d been time to bug out. Standing their ground wasn’t’ an option. Inwardly, Adam had hoped the good doctor would buy them the precious seconds they needed to make a run for it. The beast grabbed Dr. Weston, pulling him close, and sunk its teeth into his skull. Adam and Long had sprinted in different directions and the last Adam saw of Long was him hightailing it up the mountain as the monster dropped the doctor’s corpse and reared its head back in a roar that seemed to shake the entire forest. Adam had been running ever since.
He was sure only a few minutes had passed since the slaughter of his squad but it felt like hours. It wasn’t that they had been ill prepared. Each and every one of them were hardened veterans and their equipment was top notch and state of the art. What had killed them was misinformation. They’d came here hunting for a Yeti as part of a covert op. sponsored by parties who preferred to remain nameless but what they had found was something else altogether. Adam had read up on Yetis if for no other reason than to better mock the good doctor and his weird theories. He wasn’t an expert by any means but he knew that. . .thing was a lot more than some messed up, killer ape. It had stood close to ten feet tall with the overall shape of a man but the resemblance ended there. Snow white fur covered its entire body and its eyes burnt red like an albino’s. Its muscles were thick and dense beneath its fur, rippling with incredible power as it moved. Dagger like teeth filled the thing’s mouth and a long tail like a cat’s extended from its backside.
Adam knew he had heard about the monster somewhere before but couldn’t recall its name or what it was. All he knew for sure was that it wasn’t natural. Yetis, as strange and misplaced as they seemed in the real world, still followed the rules of nature. This thing didn’t. He’d watched its wounds from Daniels’ bullets heal up and grow closed almost instantly with his own eyes. Not a creature in this world should have been able to heal like that.
Adam forced such surreal and terrifying thoughts from his mind. It didn’t matter what the monster was. What mattered was staying alive. For whatever reason, the thing hadn’t killed him straight off like the others. He didn’t doubt for a second that Long was dead too and he was alone, miles upon miles from the nearest town, lost and alone with the monster in the forest. He yanked the radio from his belt as he ran and screamed into it, “This is Alpha Team. Extraction needed ASAP. Code White. I repeat: Code White!”
Only static answered his desperate pleas. His mind raced and his heart thundered in his chest. Adam had two grenades, his sidearm, and a combat knife. He wished for a mounted .50 caliber. Something like that would at least knock the thing on its butt and leave it howling in pain even if it didn’t kill it but he knew he might as well wish to be Superman. He had what he had and that was it. There wouldn’t be any help coming either. Not in time enough to matter anyway. If he wanted to live, he was going to have to save himself.
Summoning up what was left of his courage, Adam stopped running and whirled around to look behind him. He saw only trees and an ocean of white that stretched on to the horizon. For all he knew, the monster was only a few feet away, blending into the snow and all but invisible in spite of its size.
Adam jerked the pin from one of his grenades and hurled it into the trees. Whatever the thing was, it acted like an animal. He hoped the noise and flash of the explosion would scare it away. He tossed himself into the snow as the blast erupted splintering the bark of the closest trees and filling the air with wooden shrapnel. Its echoes stretched on throughout the forest. Still Adam saw nothing. Not a thing moved except for the flakes of scattered snow and smoke from the blast that drifted in the wind. He drew his sidearm and flipped off its safety. If the monster was still out there, he vowed it wasn’t going to take him without a fight. He saw it then standing near where the grenade had detonated as if it had simply sprang into existence at that spot. A primal fury mixed with hunger raged in its eyes as it watched him. It made mo move to rush him or attack. It simply stared like a cat would do with a mouse it knew was easy prey, already caught. Adam pushed himself to his feet keeping the barrel of his pistol aimed at the monster. He could almost swear there was something akin to a smile on its blood smeared lips. It broke their staring contest and turned its head toward the sky. He saw it move than it was merely gone as Adam heard the whup-whup-whup of the incoming helicopter’s blades. The massive and heavily armored transport bird burst into view above him. His breath left his body in a sigh of relief as he slumped into snow staring up at it. Tears welled up inside him as he realized he would be going home to see his family again after all.
If you enjoyed this tale, please swing by Amazon and check out BIGFOOT WAR. Most folks say it’s the BEST thing I have ever written and there’s 49 FIVE STAR reviews so far to back up those statements.
Next week, I will be posting a brand new Yeti tale entitled “Red Snow” here. It’s from an upcoming project I am working on with Coscom Entertainment. I will also be sharing some about my day-to-day routine as a writer and telling the story of how my Bigfoot War trilogy came to be. With Bigfoot War II: Dead in the Woods just around the corner, I might even let a few things slip about what to expect in it and I will be keeping ya’ll up to date on the progress of Bigfoot War III: Food Chain. There’s also a VERY special Bigfoot surprise that I will be posting soon too if things go as planned. As for today, I promised I would talk some about my team up with author James Melzer. Alas, I am pressed for time so all I can say that if like 80s horror films like From Beyond or Lovecraft type stuff blended with an Eric S Brown style, shoot’em up apocalypse, you guys will like love it when we’re done. Have a great weekend all.
For years, many of my publishers have encouraged me to set up a website for myself and my books. Being the kind of author who lives in the stone age and still writes everything by hand in a notebook, I managed to put it off until now. The lists of my books and appearances are FAR from complete on this site but there’s more than enough to keep you entertained in terms of fiction. Checkout the sidebar of book links and you’ll find everything from Bigfoot and zombies to superheroes and space marines. I plan to blog here as much as I can as my workload and real life permits. Later today, I hope to drop back by and drop a few hints as to what James Melzer (Simon and Schuster/Permuted Press) and I are hard at work on for you guys. Catch you then.
