The Wolves of Santa Muerte
and other stories
"A hellish ride of blades, battle, monsters and terror."
An action packed collection of military horror, ghosts and cryptids.
Six short stories:
Roman legionnaires battle a Mesopotamian demon. Warriors of Ancient Greece hunt a legendary kraken. An ancient beast emerges from hibernation to hunt the Victorian Alps. A lieutenant fights the undead as a traitor readies to strike. An emergency nurse facilitates a killer’s death with murderous consequences. A warrior stands in the way of a spider god.
Novella:
Captain Pike leads a crack team to secure the Fort of Santa Muerte during the Napoleonic Wars. Deep beneath the citadel, an ancient god hungers for sacrifice. Forced into an unholy alliance with his enemy, Pike will fight an epic battle against demonic wolves and a god’s fury, for not only survival, but his soul.
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Review:
"There’s an ingenious setup to this bloody, beautiful story that drives the action throughout. Set in the Napoleonic Wars a British army captain must defend an isolated Spanish fort against superior French forces outside its walls. Inside the fort, however, they’ve woken an ancient, more otherworldy enemy that’s now thirsty for blood. What ensues is a battle on two fronts, against a relentless, physical enemy on one side, and an otherworldly evil on the other. Our protagonist finds himself fighting the living and the dead, on both sides, at the same time. And the action never lets up. Allegiances and frail truces are struck, but our protagonist knows that neither the dead nor the French can ever be trusted. I’ve read Hodge’s works of military horror before and he nails the details and the fear and rush of combat, but this is new. It’s historical, terrifying in a very claustrophobic way and the combat is less a quest for victory but a desperate fight for survival."
Jeff Clulow, AHWA Shadows Award and Ditmar Award winner.