Werewolf stories

[Martin Gill]

Any werewolf or similar recommendations? Not Sookie Stackhouse or werewolf fifty shades please. Original takes on lycanthropy.

 

[Randy M.]

Hi, Martin. We had a thread here a couple of years ago:

Werewolfery

Since then I've read The Black Wolf by Galad Elflandsson and The Nightwalker by Thomas Tessier. The Elflandsson was fun, set in the 1930s it mixes its wolves with some Lovecraftian nastiness. The Tessier is also good, the stronger of the two, though I thought Tessier's Finishing Touches was a still stronger novel. Anyway, Nightwalker deals with a man coming to terms with what he is and the psychological aspect is compelling.

Really, though, my strongest recommendations remain the same: The Werewolf of Paris by Guy Endore, and Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow.


Randy M.

 

[zaltys13]

I've just read The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan, which I thought was fantastic, it's very grim and very violent, so be warned. It's the first part of a trilogy, I haven't read the others yet but I definitely will.

 

[BAYLOR]

The Compleat Werewolf by Anthony Boucher

 

[Pedro Del Mar]

I've just read The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan, which I thought was fantastic, it's very grim and very violent, so be warned. It's the first part of a trilogy, I haven't read the others yet but I definitely will.

Started it a few days ago, enjoying the darkness of it

 

[Pedro Del Mar]

I'm now reading From Blood We Live which is the final part of The Last Werewolf trilogy and it's been a fabulous read. I've really enjoyed reading them, they're dark, bloody and sexy. Glen Duncan's writing is excellent, it's to the point, his dialogue is good and his vocabulary is fantastic. Keep your dictionary to hand and go and enjoy a total rip roarer of a story.

 

[Toby Frost]

The Bloody Chamber springs to mind. And Doctor Jeckyll and Mr Hyde, which while not literally about a wolf, covers a lot of the same territory.

 

[Matteo]

There's always The Door of the Unreal by Gerald Bliss (1919) - one of the earliest werewolf novels. I've not read it (only scanned) but it seems to be in the same style as Dracula (i.e. first-hand account of real events) and apparently contains very little of the werewolf myths that are common today (silver bullets, wolfsbane, etc.).

On-line versions are available since the copyright expired some years ago.

 

[Flannery]

Lots of new books for me to check out. I love a good werewolf story!

Benjamin Percy did a werewolf book that was decent called Red Moon. (I'd post the link, but I'm a newbie. )

 

[Pedro Del Mar]

Here you go....

Red Moon by Benjamin Percy | Benjamin Percy

 

[darster]

No Such Thing As Werewolves: Deathless Book 1 by Chris Fox

I read the first book, it was moderately entertaining but your mileage may vary.

 

[Montero]

Carrie Vaugn - Kitty the Werewolf. A chirpy radio show host who is attacked and turned into a werewolf before the series starts. The first book is her starting to find her feet as a werewolf and dealing with alpha wolf crap. After that it gets pretty varied - a lot of "stuff" comes in to her Midnight Hour chat show and that brings in other areas of magic, other creatures etc. She is a normal person, learning to be tough, dealing with things her way.

 

[Pedro Del Mar]

I was recently recommended The Wolfman by Nicholas Pekearo

I haven’t had chance to read it yet but it sounds very good.

Tragically it’s the author’s only novel, he was killed whilst in service in the police in the USA

 

[BigBadBob141]

For an interesting take on werewolfs.
Read Larry Niven's short story "There's a wolf in my time machine".
It's from his collection "The Flight Of The Horse".

 

[Muppy]

Any werewolf or similar recommendations? Not Sookie Stackhouse or werewolf fifty shades please. Original takes on lycanthropy.

Frontier of the Dark by A. Bertram Chandler.

 

[Guttersnipe]

Soulless by Gail Carriger and its sequels featured werewolves, but one horrific werewolf novel is Cycle of the Werewolf by Stephen King.

 

[Toby Frost]

"Twilight at the Towers" by Clive Barker is an interesting mix of werewolf story and Cold War spy story. There are several other stories in The Books of Blood in which people turn into monsters, give into urges and so on.

 

[BigBadBob141]

"The Wolf's Hour" by Robert R. McCammon, Not bad, features a werewolf working for British Intelligence during World War Two, only his boss knows what he is.
Uncovers a fiendish Nazi plot against England, fairly interesting read.
If you like this try his collection of short stories "The Blue World".
P.S.The above story by Clive Barker can be found in the anthology "The Mammoth Book Of Werewolves" edited I think by Stephen Jones.

 

[Pedro Del Mar]

‘Leaders of the Pack’ is a werewolf anthology that’s being released in hardback on the 20th of this month. Looks like a good read

 

[dask]

I really enjoyed this one: