Book 1: Pilgrimage to Hell

The general locale of the first two-thirds of the book is what used to be Montana, starting from the rolling prairies and ending somewhere high in the rugged wilderness of Glacier National Park. (NB: It seems easier here to use the present-day appellations of the various places: it goes without saying that one hundred years after a nuke war, Montana and Glacier National Park would not be so named.)

I want to kick off with an introductory sequence that I think will sum up what I basically have in mind for the entire series: eerie atmosphere, bizarre horror and bloody action.