“His entry into his story, shared with raw language, seems adequately comfortable to the reader”—San Francisco Review of Books
THE HORROR
The book is meticulously researched and filled with vivid detail that makes Windigo Plague an exciting historical novel populated with memorable characters, and the nefarious Windigo.
––Don Sawyer, Author of The Burning Gem and the Tunnels of Buda
In the Spring of 1879, a Cree Trapper, formerly employed by the Northwest Mounted Police from Fort Saskatchewan, was alleged to have murdered all eight members of his family and dined on their flesh.
In addition to the allegations against him, Swift runner claims to be afflicted by the, “wihitikow” English translation: Windigo, an indigenous spirit said to possess and turn its victims homicidal and cannibalistic.
As the expedition pushes north, the prisoner’s condition casts a growing shadow over the group, and in the distance, they hear the tormented cries of the windigo stalking them.
