The Winterfox Journals is a Horror Literature & Fiction by Brian P. Easton. Read summary of this horror book below.
The Winterfox Journals Summary
Among the Northern Cheyenne of the Great Plains lives a boy named Winterfox, whose family has fought monsters since the days of the Spanish conquistadors. In the aftermath of Westward Expansion, he has become the sole heir to their blood feud against the Beast.
Winterfox comes of age in the long shadows of the American frontier, a time when magic has not yet passed into myth. It is a place where the mundane and fantastic still walk side-by-side, and the warrior society of the Rédo’osnin Dog Men will be remembered a little while longer.
Hidden away for almost a hundred years, the story behind the legend can finally be revealed. Told from his own journals, this first installment in the life of Michael Winterfox follows the early years of a fierce youth from an outlawed culture; a youth who will ultimately become the venerable hermit and mentor in the original Autobiography of a Werewolf Hunter trilogy.
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The Winterfox Journals Review
5.0 out of 5 stars True Horror
Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2019
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This book, and the series before it, is a study of the soul and the effect of hate, fear and self-loathing on the soul. This book is a study in malice and how inhumanity can appear human but how those that forget human bonds become something else even with the best, but more often the worst, of intentions. This is a study of both cultural and cross cultural truths, of how culture is not morality and how one not be nice in order to be moral, more it is about the price one pays if one chooses a path where one is the judge and how one that judges is held to that same standard. The author grasps the grit of how trauma shapes the soul and far more how one deals with said trauma shapes the soul and more. The author animates the locations he writes of and gives a wide range of full throated characters in his two without any of the multi-cultural pandering that so often taints even such as horror nowadays. The author paints a noir world with harsh rules that apply to the mundane and the occult alike. It is a world in which both action and inaction have consequences for one’s self and all in one’s orbit. This world while peopled with monsters and other powers is not so far from the mundane world that one cannot see the realities that the fiction is speaking of and to.
The author shows the skill of Grimm in telling his tales drawing in theology, demonology and various spiritual technologies i.e. Shamanism and western occultism to tell his tale. This book and the series before it let the wolf be the wolf and the man be man without making man without flaw. In addition to treating the subject of lycanthropy and other inhumanities with seriousness he does not shrink from human evils but without a socio-political agenda, indeed no preaching of any kind.
Lastly I feel the author takes horror back away from those that would use the tropes of horror to vent their spleens on whatever ill they are crusading about. I personally enjoy the details of the mythos that are revealed in this book and the series before it, including the price for being in the know and the price for revenge. These books show how struggle in life can be that of the soul striving to make sense of the unknowable. In a time of socio political nonsense and fears of culture wide guilt this book shows horror along with allure of horror for some as well as the price that they pay.
5.0 out of 5 stars Off to a good start-looking forward sto seeing where it goes
Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2018
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If you haven’t read the 3 books in the series that precede this one, I’d recommend reading them first even though this one is set before them chronologically. With 2 more yet to be released at the time of this writing, you’d be waiting a long time to bridge that gap and you owe it to yourself to read the original trilogy anyway since it has no peers whatsoever in werewolf fiction. For my money, it’s the best the horror/thriller genre has to offer, werewolves or not. I hope to see this new trilogy become a worthy rival as it develops, but it’s too soon to judge them side by side.
Anyway, this new entry gives us a new protagonist, though he’s a familiar character to those acquainted with the earlier books. It’s a different setting and a different generation as well, so a bit of an adjustment in a few respects, but Brian’s writing style is as good as ever. Some authors are descriptive to the point of tedium and others write with the vocabulary and pacing of a 7th grader, but Brian strikes that perfect balance between vivid imagery and brisk pacing. I don’t know that I can say much more without spoiling elements of the plot, but there is more to come and the ending certainly left me eager for it. If you’re after a gritty, violent tale about a young man’s induction into a blood feud with forces he doesn’t fully understand and the sacrifices and mistakes of youth that will take their toll along the way, I think you’ll enjoy it.
About Brian P. Easton Author Of The Winterfox Journals Book
Brian P. Easton Author Of The Winterfox Journals Book grew up among the hardwood bluffs of Southern Illinois, saddled between the banks of the Big Muddy and the Mississippi. His father, a horseman and preacher, taught him at an early age that werewolves were evil characters not heroes. Instead he encouraged his son to read about historic frontiersmen like Lewis Wetzel, or legendary gunmen like Bill Hickok. Small wonder the boy watched Gunsmoke and The Night Stalker with equal enthusiasm. Factor into this equation a 3-ton Royal typewriter given to him by his mother the year he turned 10 and the story just sort of writes itself. Most of his works include various occult and sub-cultural references, drawing both from decades of independent research and his own storied adventures; the majority of which are completely explainable. Easton’s literary influences include the usual suspects: Lovecraft, Howard, Poe and Burroughs, but none have been as impactful as Cormac McCarthy and his masterpiece, Blood Meridian. He is currently engaged in the biggest adventure of his life: raising the son who will one day replace him.
The Winterfox Journals, Paperback, Hardcover Book Information
- Publisher : Permuted Press (August 19, 2018)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 176 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1682618498
- ISBN-13 : 978-1682618493
- Item Weight : 8.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.4 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,301,034 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #84,496 in Horror Literature & Fiction
- Customer Reviews: 4.6 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
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