Artahe

This 1997 novel by an award-winning French author stars the grandson of the legendary supernatural investigator from Weird Tales. Arnaud, the grandson of Jules de Grandin, returns to the small village nestled in the heart of the Pyrenees Mountains where he grew up. There, he begins to realize that the rogue bear terrorizing the village is not an ordinary beast but a supernatural being - ARTAHE, the legendary Bear-God that has been worshipped and feared in the Mountains for thousands of years... But what can the ancient pagan cult of Artahe, led by the old invalid woman Berthe who raised Arnaud after his parents mysteriously died want with the young man?