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The Wendigo Contagion

(2026)
(The fourth book in the Black Atlas series)
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The sickness doesn’t kill you. It makes you hungry.

In an isolated Cree community in northern Alberta, a terrified young man flees a clinic and disappears into the frozen wilderness.

Then a body is found bearing deep human bite marks.

Another victim begs to be restrained before he sinks his teeth into someone else.

Cryptid investigator Zack Hitchens has survived creatures the world insists do not exist. But this time, the threat may not be stalking the woods. It may be spreading through the land itself, awakening a hunger that strips away shame, reason, and every civilized rule except one:

Feed, or be fed.

When the trail leads to a remote Northline Resources corridor, Zack calls in physician Aasif Kapoor. Together, they enter a winter-locked camp where workers fear being touched, hear voices beyond the tree line, and cannot stop watching one another’s mouths.

Northline blames stress and isolation. The authorities prepare for human violence. But the old stories offer a darker explanation.

The wendigo is not merely a creature.

It is what hunger becomes when it learns to think.

With the roads disappearing beneath the snow and Northline desperate to bury its past, Zack must uncover what poisoned the land before the camp turns into a slaughterhouse and the sickness escapes into the wider world.

Because once the hunger chooses you, starving is no longer the worst thing that can happen.


Genre: Horror



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