Artahe

Arnaud returns to the small village of his birth in the Pyrénées Mountains. A rogue bear is terrorizing the area, but is it an ordinary beast or a reincarnation of the legendary bear-god ARTAHE? Arnaud begins his investigation into an ancient pagan cult led by the old woman who raised him-but for what purpose?
This 1997 award-winning French horror novel introduces the grandson of Seabury Quinn's Weird Tales supernatural investigator.