The Sand Dwellers

by Adam Niswander

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1878252291
• ISBN13: 9781878252296
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Fedogan & Bremer
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Brisk pace and engrossing characters

The author weaves together a very interesting psychological and occult thriller solidly rooted in its Southwestern setting. The inspiration behind the plotting comes from the so called 'Cthulhu Mythos' first developed by H. P. Lovecraft. The author deftly guides the reader between four main protagonists through whose eyes we see the story rapidly develop. The plot concerns deadly events in Arizona's Superstition Mountains where monstrous forces, responsible horrific events in the past, have now bent their attention to a secret U.S. military base capable of causing a nuclear apocalypse. The suspense builds as the author keeps us guessing whether an old hermit, a deformed child, a private investigator, and the base commander can somehow come together to avert the end of the world. The only letdown is a perfunctory incorporation of ideas and terminology from earlier mythos writers (largely Brian Lumley [ author of the various Titus Crowe and other Mythos stories] and Fritz Lieber ['To Arkham and the Stars']) about a monster hunting organization based at Lovecraft's Miskatonic University. All in all a very enjoyable read by an author well-versed in his craft and a master of the Southwestern landscape.