Were Wolf Short Stories (Hardcover)
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Author: Various
Published by: Flame Tree Press
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Product Description

There’s more to being a wolf than just howling at the moon! Stories about werewolves, shapeshifting humans, rivalries and alliances between vampyr and werewolves abound in this new volume in the Gothic Fantasy series, bringing modern stories from short submissions to mix with the folklore and mythology of medieval times.

The word ‘were’ traces back more than a thousand years, coming from the Old English ‘wer’, meaning Man, then combined with wolf but here you’ll also find old Norse legends such as Fenrir (born of Loki), prophesied to defeat Odin at Ragnarök, and early Slavic myths and rituals in which were-wolf skins are removed and stolen.

New stories explore wolves which might have been human, changing by choice at the howl of the moon, or people cursed and damned to be wolves for all time. Is that why the lone wolf is alone? The wolfish grin is a little shy? Is that why we wolf down our food? Is there a wolf inside us all, in the forests around us, hunting us, haunting us, protecting itself and its kind? It’s a glorious new book of power and identity, horror and romance.

New, contemporary and notable writers featured are: Richard Beauchamp, Charlotte Bond, B.A. Booher, Ramsey Campbell, Catherine Cavendish), E.C. Dorgan, Roy Graham, Maria Haskins, Rebecca Jones-Howe, Andrew Lyall, Mark Patrick Lynch, Clara MacGauffin, Natasha Marshall, Jim Moss, James Musgrave, Plangdi Neple, Aggie Novak, Rachel Nussbaum, Natalie Shea, M.M. Williams, Zez Wyatt, and Wen Wen Yang. These appear alongside classic work by Algernon Blackwood, Gilbert Edward Campbell, Saki, and more, as well as a range of mythology, legends and folklore.