Werewolf A Chrestomathy of Lycanthropy Author:Bill Pronzini Consider the werewolf. — He is quite different from any other supernatural being of legend or myth. He is not a create fashioned of human parts in a madman's laboratory; nor a member of the undead, a zombie; nor a vampire, or animal mutated to monstrous size. He is just a man, a woman, a mortal human being. — Who is cursed. — By day he walks among ... more »the other humans, and few if any suspect his terrible secret. it is only by night that the change overtakes him; that the fur begins to grow and his body and his teeth become long and sharp; that his fingers and toes turn into pads and gleaming claws, and he drops down onto all fours; that his mind and soul are transmogrified into those of a ravening wolf. Hunger is what possesses him on those nights-the overpowering lust for human flesh, human blood...
Fiction writers have spun tales of this strange creature for almost three centuries; countless films have popularized him; yet he is still a mystery to us. here, for the first time ever, is an anthology of quality fiction on the theme of the werewolf, with an introduction on the origin of lycanthropy-the werewolf "superstition"-and what bizarre cases in history may lie behind it. This connoisseur's collection of werewolfiana includes classic selections from such writers as Guy de Maupassant, Bram Stoker, and Saki (H.H. Monro); contemporary stories from James Blish, Barry N. Malzberg, and others; and two spine-chilling views of the future.
And now... the autumn moon is full, the wolfsbane is in bloom. In the shadows, where human form stood moments ago, a fearful gray shape glides away into the night, a ravenous hunger gnawing in its belly...