Sure, there's supernatural forces at work, and a lair in which the monster resides, but I didn't feel like the similarities were overpowering. Three bounty hunters meet up in the 60's, (and again some years later), and agree to help a woman check on her nephew, who had been taken by her brother-in-law to an isolated spot in the mountains.

He packed so much skin-crawling horror out of one simple device that it’s clear the guy’s a genius at the horror game. Personally, I wanted to be known as Lemondrop Pennyfeather, but that suggested nom de plume was cruelly stricken down. Cutter did a pretty good job of fleshing out all three mercenaries in terms of how they interact with each other and how they would react in the situation they find themselves in. As an aside: I don't get the reviewers who are saying New Mexico isn't accurately depicted in the novel -- we do have forests in New Mexico! Normally when I’m really loving a book I devour it in no time but with this one I found myself purposely slowing my reading down so I could really savour each moment and wrap my brain around all the gruesome and devilish details.There is the bounty hunter, Minerva, an English mercenary named Ebenezer and a family man with a shady past named Micah.

The ending itself was to-be-expected for a novel in the horror genre, but it was overall satisfying and bittersweet. The story follows Micah, Minerva, and Ebeneezer, three guns for hire who set out to check up on a small boy who has been taken to a compound in the middle of the desert.

once the dust settled, they formed an uneasy alliance and began working with each other, including a job they accepted to investigate a cult and rescue a child. The body horror violence just keeps getting worse and worse, and every once in awhile we’d be treated to some actual visuals thanks to an extremely talented illustrator…. Then we meet the main characters and it's a bit of a slow burn as we get to know each of them intimately.