
FOR ELEVEN THOUSAND YEARS THEY'VE BEEN SLEEPING.The first victims are found torn to pieces in the hills of Santa Barbara. Authorities believe it's the grisly work of a serial murderer who kills with a feral, inhuman instinct. They're half-right. Anthropologist Jim Grand knows...

They come from prehistory to stalk and kill.... It begins, as terror so often does, with a disappearance-two men lost in the foothills of the Santa Ynez mountains, a pair of backpacks the only evidence that they'd been near the mysterious sinkhole. An ancient fissure has been...