The Curse of the Wendigo discussion

This is my first horror book out of all the books I've read and it seems to have finally had its first victim. In the book, The Curse of the Wendigo, the main characters, Will Henry and Dr. Warthrop, are in the boreal forests of Canada searching for a missing man named Dr. Chandler (46-47). One night, they find an awful sight. "A human being was impaled upon the splintered hemlock, the pole protruding from a spot just below its sternum, the body at the level of Warthrop's eye..." (70) . This turns out to be the man that had been a hunting guide for Dr. Warthrop but afterwards, was the only one to return home (47). The guide was known as Pierre Larose (47). To be honest, it was kind of expected considering that the topic of a “Wendigo” is connected to the case and by the by the book's definition, “Humanoid in appearance, very tall, more than twice the size of a grown man, extremely thin, so thin, you say, as to defy physics and become invisible upon turning sideways… the heart of the Lepto Lurconis (Wendigo) is made of ice. The Wendigo’s diet consists of human beings-and, interestingly, certain species of moss… and it has the ability to fly.” Clearly the book shows that this isn’t a normal case and that it is a mixture of fiction, suspense/horror, and a tinge of science. The one thing that would be totally unexpected, (but I get this odd feeling that it’s totally gonna happen) is that the good, yet strange, Doctor Warthrop will become infected by the Wendigo and in the end kill everyone around him. And considering the Doctor’s background, that’s not entirely too improbable.