This book kicks ass! Any lover of horror, but especially fans of 80's horror, would totally dig this story. 
 
What started off as a creature feature, (I had in mind something like the Swamp Thing), morphed into a story about wizards and demons and I couldn't have been more pleased with that turn. The only problem I had with the book was that the ending was a little predictable and for that I deducted one star.
 
Although this is a horror story, Michael Talbot always writes in a literary fashion. (See The Delicate Dependency or Night Things.) This book was no exception. An old school horror tale told in beautiful language is a real treat, and not often found in these days of often sloppy writing and confused story lines. This is what makes this book special. Always moving and always entertaining, this story  knocked my socks off! It truly did. 
 
Recommended to any fan of horror, but especially fans of 80s horror! Come and discover what's hidden in the bog. You know you want to. 
 
*A free ebook was provided to me in exchange for an honest review. This is it!* ( )

The Bog
By: Michael Talbot
Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
This is an audible book I requested and the review is voluntary.
I am so glad I asked and received this book! This is a good creepy book with so many great characters and surprises. I loved the whole thing! The plot was wonderful, the characters were well developed, the story was creepy, and the town folk were even creepier! Great ending too! Lots of twists and turns...great story!
The narrator was wonderful! He did wonderful voices of women, children, and ...it. The creepy feeling oozed from the narrator when he really put it on. Great job. The suspense, thrill, and horror was really enhanced with this narrator. Great job! ( )

The second star is simply because there were bog bodies in the book.

The whole thing reminded me of a Hammer movie, and while that's usually a compliment from me, it's really not in this case. The best thing about it was the bog bodies, and they're really only the deus ex machina to get the archaeologist and his family out to the little English village where the evil dwells. (The evil which is called by the villagers Ol' Bendy. I kid you not.)

I know this book was written in the 80s, when we knew a lot less about bog bodies, but it still pained me how much more I knew than the supposed expert hero in the book. Hell, he was preserving the bodies on site with methods not really seen since good ol' Tollund Man in the 1950s. And washing off the peat on site. Oh, and apparently this particular peat bog didn't turn hair read. Not enough sphaghum I guess. I mean, sure you can often tell what color hair a bog body used to have, but the chemicals that turn the body that nice rather ebonyish color turn the hair bright stinking red! (She types as she sits with a cup of tea in her Red Franz mug.)

The villain, the Marquis de l'Isle was far more interesting than the archaeologist, who did not get off to a good start with me with his "Oh, honey, it's just your female intuition" crack. It could possibly be that he was less a cardboard cutout than the others, or just that he was cooler. I'm not quite sure. But I fully understand why this book is out of print. ( )