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Stomping Ground: A Bigfoot Thriller
Billionaire Ben Myer, sick of the limelight, wants to leave the world of paparazzi and parties behind him. Buying a large piece of land in Alaska, he sets his sights on building an epic, compound like mansion there. Unfortunately for Ben, the land is inhabited by a creature of dark legends. . .and it isn't about to share.
A gory, thrill ride of Sasquatch horror action in the tradition of Bigfoot War and Manhunt.
A gory, thrill ride of Sasquatch horror action in the tradition of Bigfoot War and Manhunt.
140 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 13, 2024
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Eric S. Brown
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May 16, 2024
I want to start by saying I listened to this one as an audiobook. Okay so this was a decent Bigfoot book Eric is a fantastic writer but the one thing I can’t stand is the over use of “frag” and “fragging” it was a very annoying hearing those two words constantly, another thing is the large amount of characters it gets a little hard to follow at times, now saying those two things the book was still very well done! The characters we meet were brilliant and intriguing to follow. The story its self has a very interesting plot with plenty of violence and gore, the story is very descriptive and detailed which is brilliant! The writing was pretty good considering it’s not a very long book! So overall it was decent if you’re looking for a quick gore filled book then I’d recommend this to you! 3.5/5 💀💀💀
March 29, 2026
Ah Eric S. Brown, he's one of the authors I go to for my man vs monster fix, perhaps it's because I've read a number of his books however this one was just not as good as some of his other works, after reading a number of them I've noticed a trend that pops in his work. A while back I had been planing a massive review of all the books I had read of his with bigfoot in them, the number of times a certain gesture was repeated, the names, the archetype of characters, all linking them together to see if perhaps it was just one massive story universe, sadly that got scrapped however I remember a part of it so I'm unloading it here.
The book needed a better editor to help refine it, there are repetitive words left, right and center, this sadly is a theme for the author, perhaps it's because it's been a while since I read his other works however this flaw appears much more present here then before. The story happens at lighting pace so you won't have to much time to bond with the characters, not that they have much depth to them, hard as nails women here and there, pretty ones so smile and wink, good old country folk sprinkled through out it as well.
One odd thing is how he never uses the word fuck, always frag, you have people being torn apart, their bowls being ripped out in graphic detail however no one says fuck, I mean no one, not mercs, not the police, the people from out of state, no one, it's just so odd to not just say it. Even in the worse moments they will only use frag or fragging, I'll chalk it up to some universe where it's the same thing, I refuse to believe it was done to keep the book PG when gruesome deaths are described in the book.
Now the book the description tells you exactly what the story is about, rich douchebag wants to build a home in Alaska, cutting down a part of a forest to build his mega mansion and from there the fun starts as things start to get spooky at the construction site, mind you chapter 1 has two hunters getting brutally murdered.
Now our main character is a rich guy however don't worry he is not like the other rich guys, he is fleeing LA for good old Alaska to get away from that cesspit, from fake friends and the media, for some reason everyone knows the guy, he's all over the tabloids. We don't know exactly what he did to get into the spotlight nor exactly how he maintained this huge wealth just that he did and everyone seems to want a piece of him.
Our second character is Martin a former soldier turned mercenary turned bodyguard for mister rich, and part time friend, once things start to go down at the site it's Martin who calls in some former friends to help deal with a potential bigfoot.
As usual the author glazes the military and guns though the people brought in make me question if the author knows anything about the military and how those guys used to have standards. There's the tough as nails woman who leads the team yet bows her head to Martin once he shows up, which is odd, the guy has been out of ''the game'' yet he still gives order to her and the rest, rather then setting the objective and allowing her to make the plan he runs rough shout over things, he has been playing bodyguard for several years yet he still somehow changes her plans as nah trust me bro, this man has not seen combat for several years yet he is still followed for some reason, he is also the one to calm things down during a heated exchange, way to go leader girl. At one point she makes a plan and points out that yeah this will leave us vulnerable so let's not be stupid about it, nah Martin decides we do this as I saw and I know I'm right. He was not in fact right in any way shape or form.
The other guys part of the team are just as forgettable, the big guy with a shotgun, the guy with the pistol, you are up against a potential bigfoot use a shotgun or an assault rifle stop using your modified pistols! the smaller guy who makes up for it with pure aggression, the demo guy who loves his explosives and can't wait to use them at any occasion. Of course they have a darkness in them, loving violence and having plenty of both in them. I don't think the US army was just jumping for the chance to recruit such unstable nutjobs, one who all but jumps to start brawling as his comrade, a person who he presumably had been fighting alongside had mocked mother nature, really this is your first reaction? no real talking or explaining things just start shouting and wanting to throw hands? wtf?
For mercenaries and soldiers these guys aren't very smart, do they do any recon, plant explosives to cover their flanks? set up some cameras to get intel on the threat? nope! no one even questions if perhaps there is more then one bigfoot, just nah it will be fine folks.
So we already have characters making bad decisions, perhaps their IQ dropped by being there or something and they aren't the only ones either.
The local sheriff is more then willing and able to cover up deaths in the area as it would attract attention to his quiet little town, he does this on more then one occasion, this salt of the earth, possibly former and wanna be former military man aggressive to cover up deaths in the area, don't worry in one case he bows his head for money as the rich man wants his mansion and is willing to throw money at the families of the deceased, real honest to God americans there, bowing their heads to money and starting to drink like fishes...wow.
Now credit where credit is due as the book does show what happens when you give untrained people assault rifles and try to get them to lay down covering fire, a character getting gunned down by said covering fire as these people are not trained with these weapons or in general so of course they make mistakes. Sadly that points get taken away as apparently hunters and locals at night time with fires from battle can shout rather perfectly around the head of a woman fight a bigfoot up close.......wut? somehow they make those shots happen.
The books glorifies guns by a lot, you'll get plenty of detail about them, even the modifications, the author of course takes them to praise the loose guns laws of Alaska for allowing people to carry the good stuff, if this was LA there would be no stopping bigfoot! - his words, ugh, except that hey the people with assault rifles and even the local salt of the earth more militia people with their shotguns and hunting rifles also get slaughtered by bigfoot.
An odd little point here however how many women have you seen working in construction? as in the manual labor part? for some reason there are plenty of women on the site as well, of course some make a heroic stand against bigfoot, a single mother taking one bigfoot, no, she was not an architect, or an electrician, just straight out manual labor, I personally have never seen women on such cases. I think it's the author trying to be both gun loving, military loving, yet still inclusive with the women.
There;s also some odd time jumps here and there, at one point I wondered if perhaps this was sequel bait but nope it just kept going, made a bit more odd as the battle wasn't even over properly and we had jumped from it.
The monster is almost always the same in every book, big, hairy, has a musky smell, glowing yellow eyes, great at stealth, hide and seek champion, muscles hard as all hell, tall as bro basketball players, the muscles and will stop most weapons, hunting riffles? pistols? nah, son, they don't have the stomping power to penetrate those thick muscles, get used to that phrase. Don't worry even soldiers will still try to aim for the chest rather then the head, legs or exposed genitals.
I picked up this book as another one that I was reading hit hard and I needed to put it down and just read something to help turn my brain off, in that regard this helped, it's short and has plenty of man vs monster action, I just wish they had acted smarter, again, perhaps its because I've read some of his other stories and things just get repeated, I have to wonder if they sell so well that he just keeps getting offers to make more of them. For what it set out to do I think it did an ok job, just don't expect anything more.
The book needed a better editor to help refine it, there are repetitive words left, right and center, this sadly is a theme for the author, perhaps it's because it's been a while since I read his other works however this flaw appears much more present here then before. The story happens at lighting pace so you won't have to much time to bond with the characters, not that they have much depth to them, hard as nails women here and there, pretty ones so smile and wink, good old country folk sprinkled through out it as well.
One odd thing is how he never uses the word fuck, always frag, you have people being torn apart, their bowls being ripped out in graphic detail however no one says fuck, I mean no one, not mercs, not the police, the people from out of state, no one, it's just so odd to not just say it. Even in the worse moments they will only use frag or fragging, I'll chalk it up to some universe where it's the same thing, I refuse to believe it was done to keep the book PG when gruesome deaths are described in the book.
Now the book the description tells you exactly what the story is about, rich douchebag wants to build a home in Alaska, cutting down a part of a forest to build his mega mansion and from there the fun starts as things start to get spooky at the construction site, mind you chapter 1 has two hunters getting brutally murdered.
Now our main character is a rich guy however don't worry he is not like the other rich guys, he is fleeing LA for good old Alaska to get away from that cesspit, from fake friends and the media, for some reason everyone knows the guy, he's all over the tabloids. We don't know exactly what he did to get into the spotlight nor exactly how he maintained this huge wealth just that he did and everyone seems to want a piece of him.
Our second character is Martin a former soldier turned mercenary turned bodyguard for mister rich, and part time friend, once things start to go down at the site it's Martin who calls in some former friends to help deal with a potential bigfoot.
As usual the author glazes the military and guns though the people brought in make me question if the author knows anything about the military and how those guys used to have standards. There's the tough as nails woman who leads the team yet bows her head to Martin once he shows up, which is odd, the guy has been out of ''the game'' yet he still gives order to her and the rest, rather then setting the objective and allowing her to make the plan he runs rough shout over things, he has been playing bodyguard for several years yet he still somehow changes her plans as nah trust me bro, this man has not seen combat for several years yet he is still followed for some reason, he is also the one to calm things down during a heated exchange, way to go leader girl. At one point she makes a plan and points out that yeah this will leave us vulnerable so let's not be stupid about it, nah Martin decides we do this as I saw and I know I'm right. He was not in fact right in any way shape or form.
The other guys part of the team are just as forgettable, the big guy with a shotgun, the guy with the pistol, you are up against a potential bigfoot use a shotgun or an assault rifle stop using your modified pistols! the smaller guy who makes up for it with pure aggression, the demo guy who loves his explosives and can't wait to use them at any occasion. Of course they have a darkness in them, loving violence and having plenty of both in them. I don't think the US army was just jumping for the chance to recruit such unstable nutjobs, one who all but jumps to start brawling as his comrade, a person who he presumably had been fighting alongside had mocked mother nature, really this is your first reaction? no real talking or explaining things just start shouting and wanting to throw hands? wtf?
For mercenaries and soldiers these guys aren't very smart, do they do any recon, plant explosives to cover their flanks? set up some cameras to get intel on the threat? nope! no one even questions if perhaps there is more then one bigfoot, just nah it will be fine folks.
So we already have characters making bad decisions, perhaps their IQ dropped by being there or something and they aren't the only ones either.
The local sheriff is more then willing and able to cover up deaths in the area as it would attract attention to his quiet little town, he does this on more then one occasion, this salt of the earth, possibly former and wanna be former military man aggressive to cover up deaths in the area, don't worry in one case he bows his head for money as the rich man wants his mansion and is willing to throw money at the families of the deceased, real honest to God americans there, bowing their heads to money and starting to drink like fishes...wow.
Now credit where credit is due as the book does show what happens when you give untrained people assault rifles and try to get them to lay down covering fire, a character getting gunned down by said covering fire as these people are not trained with these weapons or in general so of course they make mistakes. Sadly that points get taken away as apparently hunters and locals at night time with fires from battle can shout rather perfectly around the head of a woman fight a bigfoot up close.......wut? somehow they make those shots happen.
The books glorifies guns by a lot, you'll get plenty of detail about them, even the modifications, the author of course takes them to praise the loose guns laws of Alaska for allowing people to carry the good stuff, if this was LA there would be no stopping bigfoot! - his words, ugh, except that hey the people with assault rifles and even the local salt of the earth more militia people with their shotguns and hunting rifles also get slaughtered by bigfoot.
An odd little point here however how many women have you seen working in construction? as in the manual labor part? for some reason there are plenty of women on the site as well, of course some make a heroic stand against bigfoot, a single mother taking one bigfoot, no, she was not an architect, or an electrician, just straight out manual labor, I personally have never seen women on such cases. I think it's the author trying to be both gun loving, military loving, yet still inclusive with the women.
There;s also some odd time jumps here and there, at one point I wondered if perhaps this was sequel bait but nope it just kept going, made a bit more odd as the battle wasn't even over properly and we had jumped from it.
The monster is almost always the same in every book, big, hairy, has a musky smell, glowing yellow eyes, great at stealth, hide and seek champion, muscles hard as all hell, tall as bro basketball players, the muscles and will stop most weapons, hunting riffles? pistols? nah, son, they don't have the stomping power to penetrate those thick muscles, get used to that phrase. Don't worry even soldiers will still try to aim for the chest rather then the head, legs or exposed genitals.
I picked up this book as another one that I was reading hit hard and I needed to put it down and just read something to help turn my brain off, in that regard this helped, it's short and has plenty of man vs monster action, I just wish they had acted smarter, again, perhaps its because I've read some of his other stories and things just get repeated, I have to wonder if they sell so well that he just keeps getting offers to make more of them. For what it set out to do I think it did an ok job, just don't expect anything more.
May 6, 2024
Decent enough Bigfoot tale but ...
There are certainly worse Bigfoot stories out there.
It appears a lot of work went into this except for one very aggravating point.
You'd better be ready to hear the words "frag" and "fragging" over and over and over until you are nauseous.
Not only is it a word that very few people ever use or are familiar with, it is used to a point of ridiculousness.
A professional copy editor would have corrected this error I feel sure.
There are certainly worse Bigfoot stories out there.
It appears a lot of work went into this except for one very aggravating point.
You'd better be ready to hear the words "frag" and "fragging" over and over and over until you are nauseous.
Not only is it a word that very few people ever use or are familiar with, it is used to a point of ridiculousness.
A professional copy editor would have corrected this error I feel sure.
October 6, 2024
Good quick read
Makes you think Bigfoot might actually be out there. As for other reviews about the use of "frag", it's not that bad. It just stands out because it is different and not what you're used to. If you could do a find and replace it with your chosen " F bomb", I don't think anyone would notice how often it is used.
Makes you think Bigfoot might actually be out there. As for other reviews about the use of "frag", it's not that bad. It just stands out because it is different and not what you're used to. If you could do a find and replace it with your chosen " F bomb", I don't think anyone would notice how often it is used.
April 25, 2024
overly graphic
Giving the story a 3 because punctuation and grammar was perfect. But there was so much gore that I can’t give it a higher rating. Funny to skip swearing but be keenly detailed on evisceration. To each their own, this just wasn’t my favorite type of story.
Giving the story a 3 because punctuation and grammar was perfect. But there was so much gore that I can’t give it a higher rating. Funny to skip swearing but be keenly detailed on evisceration. To each their own, this just wasn’t my favorite type of story.
June 25, 2024
Ok read
Book could have been a 5 star, but the effort to remain pg in terms of language made it positively annoying in places. Fragging in place of a other f word really doesn't cut it when someone is being ripped apart.
Book could have been a 5 star, but the effort to remain pg in terms of language made it positively annoying in places. Fragging in place of a other f word really doesn't cut it when someone is being ripped apart.
April 27, 2024
Man !!!
You talk about revenge ! Enjoyed this book ,but there's gotta be PAYBACK 🤔 right ? 😠 I mean ,right 🙄
You talk about revenge ! Enjoyed this book ,but there's gotta be PAYBACK 🤔 right ? 😠 I mean ,right 🙄
May 7, 2024
Another good one
This author hasn't failed to keep me interested in another book about Bigfoot.
Good or bad, human or Bigfoot, enjoy.
This author hasn't failed to keep me interested in another book about Bigfoot.
Good or bad, human or Bigfoot, enjoy.
May 26, 2024
4 Stars
A pretty good Bigfoot story. A rich man moves to Alaska to build his dream home, right in the middle of Bigfoot territory. I found myself rooting for the monster.
A pretty good Bigfoot story. A rich man moves to Alaska to build his dream home, right in the middle of Bigfoot territory. I found myself rooting for the monster.
December 29, 2024
Great horror story
I really loved this book. The characters were amazing and the story kept me glued to my seat. Wow. I can't wait for my next horror story.
I really loved this book. The characters were amazing and the story kept me glued to my seat. Wow. I can't wait for my next horror story.
March 24, 2025
Repetitive word choices and a weird aversion to using swear words despite graphic depictions of violence. Also, a tad too many characters for something so short. Nobody feels fleshed out.
May 25, 2025
Awesome Story
As usual, Bigfoot done right. The story is very well done, with characters you care about. I want more of this.
As usual, Bigfoot done right. The story is very well done, with characters you care about. I want more of this.
August 24, 2024
I did enjoy the story and even the sasquatch but I didn't like a single character. I like books a little better when I have at least one person to root for. Still, a solid Bigfoot story.
2nd read: I did want to comment that there is a lot of gore.
2nd read: I did want to comment that there is a lot of gore.
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