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Title: L'Amour wrote at least 27 better!
Review: I have read 28 L'Amour novels and prize most of them very highly indeed. But Haunted Mesa is one of the last of his to read. As others have indicated, it needed a good editor to cut it in half--the constant return to the same redundant ideas and questions and musings is quite tiresome. It does not advance the action or the thoughts of the characters. The undigested references to scientific concepts of a "4th dimension" in space-time, and quantum mechanics, does not give plausibility to the fantasy plot of a tribe of cliff-dwellers and others falling through a "door" in "space-time"; and the story itself does not rise to mytho-poetic resonance. And as a professor of religious studies, I would have to say that it does little to advance our understanding or appreciation of Anasazi religion.
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