The Skunk Ape

By Edward Kress

You smell it before you see it.Deep in the Florida Everglades, former wildlife officer Mason Reddick is called in to help locate a missing hunter. What he finds hanging in a cypress tree should be impossible.The man is still alive.Barely.And whatever put him there is still watching.The tracks are seventeen inches long. The creature that made them stands nearly eight feet tall, moves with terrifying speed, and possesses enough strength to tear a human body apart with its bare hands.The locals have a name for it.The Skunk Ape.But Mason quickly discovers that the creatures living in the swamp are not the only things hiding beneath the Everglades.There are families.Territories.Old grudges.And something far larger and more violent than the others-an enormous scarred male known as the Old Bull.When ancient forces buried beneath Florida begin to awaken, Mason, primatologist Talia Mercer, and the survivors around them are dragged into a nightmare that spreads far beyond one missing hunter. Creatures emerge from places that should not exist. The dead refuse to stay dead. Something beneath the water remembers every person it has ever taken.And humanity may have just broken a containment system that was never meant to be opened.Brutal, fast-moving, and soaked in swamp atmosphere, THE SKUNK APE is an extreme cryptid-horror novel filled with savage creature attacks, dark mythology, survival horror, and the terrifying possibility that some monsters have been protecting us from something worse.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HM7T4SHG
• ISBN13: 9798160754352
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"