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# Ancient Enemy Paperback – September 22, 2013

**Brand:** mark lukens
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Surprisingly great book
  

*by B***B on Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2024*

Better than I anticipated. If I had high hopes I would've bought the whole series in 1 edition and save a bit of money but this book was a great read I found difficult to put down.Book 2 on its way to me!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Cosmic horror far from  lovecraft
  

*by D***D on Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2020*

I'm a huge fan of cosmic horror, since before I first picked up a Lovecraft book, so I decided to give Ancient Enemy a go. It takes the cosmic horror sub genre far from R'lyeh and Miskatonic U and plops it down in Colorado and the story of the Anasazi . We open with Stella.and David fleeing a archeology dug of horror, right into the hands of bank robbers while an ancient evil pursues them.  Trapped in a small cabin they are forced to do the horrible bidding of the entity or face even worse horrors. Will they give it what it wants or will they read themselves apart.  Like I said I love cosmic horror but it's easy to get bogged down with others trying to write new stories I. The Cthulhu mythos.This is a fresh look at a horror just as cosmic yet different. A new, ancient enemy. The book moves at a decent pace and once the horror starts it plays out fairly quickly. While none of the characters are exceptional they are all well written and developed well enough.  It's a bit light on the gore but one scene made me out down the book till morning . It was disturbing enough and one of personal queasy moments.  If you are a fan of cosmic horror and want something different than tentacles  and and cultists then give this a try.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    ". . . his torso had  been scooped out--muscles, bones, organs, blood, all of it gone. He was completely hollow inside."
  

*by M***T on Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2014*

Stella is at an isolated archeological dig, and she is in trouble as the expedition is under siege.  Death and mutilation has happened, and more has been demanded, as something has arrived at the dig and is picking off the archeologists one at a time.  And what it NOW is David, a young orphaned Navajo boy, who was found alone and bloody by the archeologists, but Stella won't let this something have him and flees. Simultaneously, a bank robbery has gone bad, not real bad, there's no massacre, but bad enough, a man is killed.  However, this will cause tension in the gang as Frank, the gang's leader is near murderous over this "deviation" from the plan.  However, the other members manage to calm him down, they flee on their snowmobiles on the lookout for an alternate means of locomotion. Bad luck is bad luck, and soon Stella and David find themselves carjacked, but the car is damaged in the jacking, and is overheating, and if they don't find shelter soon they are going to be stranded in the middle of the nowhere as a paralyzing snowstorm starts blowing in to the area. Then, luckily at the last minute, they find a log cabin in the middle of the countryside, but while empty, it hasn't been abandoned.  Somebody has been very recently living there, and now they're not.  Not living, that is.  Unfortunately for all, that which Stella has fled from has not forgotten Stella, and it has followed her, and it has found her, and now the fun starts.  And this will be the basis for Lukens' novel's core plot as both parties, Stella's and Frank's, are now under siege, and a bloody war of attrition begins. Mark Lukens' biography in the back of this book states that Lukens is also a screenwriter, which may explain why "Ancient Enemy" reads very much a novelization of a direct-to-disc movie.  There is very little in the way of characterization, the characters are your standard literary types, as there is the villain with a heart of gold, the nervous and panicky weak link, the blind and protective motherly archetype, and they all exist to be merely cannon fodder, to be used only to push the story along.  And in-the-end it didn't help that I really didn't like any of the characters, including the sullen and unsociable David. There is little in the way of plot, this is your basic siege story, and as such, Lukens gives us little in the way of story development.  The reader is dumped right into the action, and then the action never lets up, so there is little, except for some brief infodumps from Stella, any reason for any of this to be happening.  In fact, even the information that Stella gives isn't satisfactory as to why this ancient being is doing what it is doing. Random evil for the sake of random evil is just laziness on the author's part.  In fact, in the way that Mark Lukens starts his novel "Ancient Enemy", it reads very much like a sequel to a previously published novel. Continuing the feeling that this is a novelized script is that this novel has plenty of movieisms, that is, transparent movie set pieces.  Like the corpse in the freezer who bangs about causing distress to all those inside the house, the footsteps in the snow that just STOP, the villains who start turning on each other, the first seven page opening scene, and the classic/cliché cynical last scene as Lukens rubs the reader's face into the fact that everything that we had originally thought about the creature is wrong, and that Lukens has just cheated his audience.  This type of ending is alright, I guess, in an hour and a half tv movie on the SCY-FY channel, but in a novel, it just feels like a cheat.  I also thought that knocking off one of the main characters first was a mistake, while keeping the weakest character until much later.  Plus, we never get any explanation as to WHAT this ancient creature is, and WHY this ancient creature is committing the mayhem that is doing, leaving me frustrated, and with a sense that all of this random mayhem was just a waste of my time, that was only compounded by the cynical ending.  All we know is that blood and death will happen to the people inside the cabin if this creature's escalating cat-and-mouse demands aren't met. This could have easily have been a mass-market paperback from Tor or Leisure in the nineties, and then forgotten.  Although this would have been something that a much younger, and less demanding, me would have enjoyed.  So, while I enjoyed this rocket ride to hell, when all was done I still felt let down as the prose seemed simplified for a lesser IQed reader, and I felt that there was very little substance to this novel's plot. For this site I have reviewed these other indie horror novels:
  
Andy







  
  
     by Bradley Snow.
  
Cannibal Corpse, M/C







  
  
     by Tim Curran.
  
Crogian







  
  
     by John Leahy.
  
Dead Sea







  
  
     by Tim Curran.
  
THE DESERT







  
  
     by Bryon Morrigan.
  
Hissers







  
  
     by Ryan C. Thomas.
  
Lucky Streak







  
  
     by Dane Grannon.
  
Red Sky







  
  
     by Nate Southard.
  
Rise & Walk







  
  
     by Gregory Solis.Snapper by Peter Maloney & Felicia Zekauskas.
  
Vespa







  
  
     by Dean Lombardo.

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