Don't People Like Werewolf Stories Anymore?

[Truegho]

Don't people like werewolf stories anymore?

I ask this because I published a werewolf portmanteau novella on Amazon Kindle a few months ago, and it has barely sold a copy! The book, WEREWOLF QUARTET, was my own little homage to the Amicus horror anthology movies, which I have always loved, and contained four lycanthrope-themed tales framed by a main storyline (including a clever little twist at the end).

In contrast to Werewolf Quartet, all my other Kindle books on Amazon (which are mainly true ghost stories and paranormal ones) have done reasonably well, so I can't understand why the werewolf novella has fared so miserably in terms of sales.

[Dr Strange]

"Werewolf erotica" seems the way to go if you want to shift product.

[Truegho]

I take your point. Just like all over-slushy, totally unscary vampire garbage that has flooded the market in recent years, werewolf erotica is not something that appeals to me. I like my monsters to be traditionally SCARY.

[Truegho]

Due to poor sales, I have now scrapped my WEREWOLF QUARTET Kindle book - as much as I hated having to do it, for I had always wanted to write a horror portmanteau novel that people would love - and intermingled the four werewolf stories into my HORROR STORIES volumes.

Hope I have done the right thing.

[Truegho]

Having always been a great fan of the horror anthology genre (love the Amicus portmanteau movies), and being a horror writer myself, I thought I'd try my hand at writing one myself. Loving werewolves too, I decided to tie in these two loves and write Werewolf Nightmare.

Werewolf Nightmare is a horror portmanteau novella, in the style of Tales From The Crypt, featuring four werewolf tales, with a framing story about a horror magazine editor who visits the secluded country home of an elderly writer to read four werewolf stories the old gent has written with a view to publication in the magazine. But as the night unfolds, it soon becomes horrifyingly apparent that perhaps there is more truth than fiction in the lycanthropic tales that the elderly gentleman has written . . .

I really enjoyed writing Werewolf Nightmare, and may even try my hand at writing another portmanteau novella sometime in the future, which possibly may be about vampires this time.

If you would like to find out more about my book, Werewolf Nightmare, you can just click on my signature below.

Alan Toner
www.alantoner.com