We are closing down for the night but first:
Holger and his companions have just entered a neighbourhood that is terrorized by a werewolf;
in a later volume, Holger will meet Valeria Matuchek whose father, Steven, is a werewolf;
we - I mean we here at Blog Central; everyone's reading experience is different - have just reread "The Hunt," a Sandman story by Neil Gaiman.
In "The Hunt," an elderly immigrant to the US tells his teenage granddaughter a story. They refer to themselves as of "the People," which means, we learn, that they are werewolves living in New York.
It all feels like one long, broad series especially since the multiverse idea easily explains away any discrepancies.
7 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Don't recall reading many stories showing werewolves, aside from Anderson's OPERATION books. Vampires are more popular with horror/fantasy writers, almost certainly because of Bram Stoker's DRACULA. Stirling used that idea for his Shadowspawn books.
Ad astra! Sean
James Blish has a werewolf story, "There Shall Be No Darkness."
Kaor, Paul!
Unfortunately, that's not one of the few short stories of Blish that I've read.
Ad astra! Sean
Different types of werewolf...
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
Werewolf stories never seemed to have really grabbed my interest.
Ad astra! Sean
Traditional werewolves committed atrocities out of supernatural bloodlust.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
Anderson rationalized that in OPERATION CHAOS with Steven Matuchek reflecting that werewolves in that alternate world needed training and educating in how to control the metabolic/glandular/physical upheavals triggered by the change from human to wolf form. And so on to the changes made by other "weres" into different animal forms.
Ad astra! Sean
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