Ten Little Indians

by E. Patrick Murray

HIDE AND SEEK

Ten-year-old Shayla Bennett was proud of her Indian heritage. And when her foster parents were killed in a freak accident, she decided to survive on her own in the mountains of Montana—just like a real Indian. She'd hide and she'd eat berries and she wouldn't be afraid of anything. Not even the strange shadowy figures that emerged from the bowels of the mountain at night…

LOST AND FOUND

They'd been watching her. She was just what they needed. An innocent little girl. All alone in the woods. Completely ignorant of the mountain's age-old secrets. And completely at their mercy. No one would hear her if she screamed. No one would know she was missing. And no one would ever again disturb the darkness of their ancient hiding place…

Genres: Horror

432 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published September 1, 1988

About the author

aka Earl Murray

Reviews

[Grady Hendrix]

At no point does a skeleton Indian chief console a small child by sitting it in his lap and creeping on its shoulders. There are invisible, midget cannibals, however.

[Wayne]

Not much of a horror book. More like an environmental story. Greedy company wants to open a mine that was closed down under tragedy. An anthropologist up in the mountains doing a study on the environment finds strange things. It all revolves around Shayla, a ten year old who's foster parents die in an accident on the mountain by the mine. She is taken in by Native American spirits. On top of all that we even have little cannibal people who live in the mine, and don't want it open again.

This is a Zebra horror book which means it's going to have a tacky cover and an outlandish story. This time out the book is pretty bad that it makes it good. The build up was virtually bloodless but interesting. The real action takes place on the last 50 pages of this book that has 350 pages.

[Amber]

Amazing story. Great plot twists. Good for any age of reader as long as they can handle a Tiny bit of violence/gore.

[Melodie Wendel-Cook]

This was more nostalgia to re-read horror from youth. The story isn't like back cover: she does wander up to live in mountains, but story mostly anthropology or environmental issues---not spirits possessing to destroy a young girl's soul, but protect.