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Post by killercrab on Jun 13, 2008 1:13:05 GMT
THE SON OF THE WEREWOLF by Guy N. Smith - Nel , 1978.
'Margaret Gunn had given birth to a Werewolf!'
We pick up with Margaret in labour , nine months on after the fateful conclusion to RETURN OF THE WEREWOLF , wherein she was raped by the beast man. The ugly child grows up to be an uglier teenager - his idea of football , smacking the ball into the goolies of the nearest player. Schoolmaster Williams isn't impressed - he even less impressed when young Hugh Gunn carves him up. Hugh pleads manslaughter and gets sent to prison , luckily he's kept in solitary - the other inmates know he isn't *right*. Good job too because as the moonlight filters through the bars - Hugh learns his true heritage.
Biding his time until his release he dreams of the Black Hill and the bloody freedom craved. After being released he heads home briefly before hitching a ride to the city. The werewolf has a field day and is soon Britain's most wanted sex killer. Joining up with a band of gypsies he escapes back to his home territory.
Enter Gordon Hall , older but packing a crossbow with silver tipped arrows...
This arguably is the best written of Guy Smith's trilogy and though it treads no new ground plotwise , it's still chockful of pulpy fun. I particularly liked the inclusion of the mythical Black Dogs , who eventually hunt down the werewolf for a showdown , Gordon already having shot his load ... into a wooden beam!
I think the three books in the series are ripe for a critical re-evaluation. Guy Smith successfully transports what is a European mythical concept into the British countryside bringing something unique to the annals of lychanthrope literature.Smith's skill in evoking atmosphere through characterisation and description works throughout the series and there is a consistency that four years between first and last book fails to diminish.
One can only hope that his novel NIGHT OF THE WEREWOLF becomes available in print at some point ( it can be purchased on CD at present) and surely Guy has one more werewolf outing in him I'd hope , after enjoying this trilogy , I want more.
Hope you enjoyed this journey!
KC
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Post by franklinmarsh on Jun 13, 2008 11:57:56 GMT
Certainly did, KC! Excellent reviews - got me wanting to return to these. I found the reveal in Return intensely disappointing on first read. Can't help liking that old rogue Gordon Hall!
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Post by killercrab on Jun 13, 2008 13:15:31 GMT
Yes I think GNS was trying to be too realist in RETURN - suddenly realising maybe he should of kept to the supernatural mandate - hence the muddying of the waters at the end . It's certainly the weakest book in the link. A blooper occurs in SON too. Margaret remembers seeing the rough hair on the back of the werewolf down in the pit ( in RETURN) , yet in actual fact old lecher Gordon doesn't allow her near the pit !
Cheers FM !
KC
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Post by dem bones on Nov 8, 2017 19:49:05 GMT
Guy N. Smith - Son Of The Werewolf (NEL, Aug. 1978) Blurb:
Margaret Gunn remembered that terrible night nine months before when she had been horribly and brutally raped by a man in a wolf's skin. And now she was giving birth to his son.
Margaret prayed that he would be normal, but as he grew up her most dreaded fears were realised; his large head, hideous face, terrible temper and animal-like behaviour were all signs. Then came the first murder and the final realisation . ..
MARGARET GUNN HAD GIVEN BIRTH TO A WEREWOLF!THE SON OF THE WEREWOLF by Guy N. Smith - Nel , 1978. 'Margaret Gunn had given birth to a Werewolf!' We pick up with Margaret in labour , nine months on after the fateful conclusion to RETURN OF THE WEREWOLF , wherein she was raped by the beast man. The ugly child grows up to be an uglier teenager - his idea of football , smacking the ball into the goolies of the nearest player. Schoolmaster Williams isn't impressed - he even less impressed when young Hugh Gunn carves him up. Hugh pleads manslaughter and gets sent to prison , luckily he's kept in solitary - the other inmates know he isn't *right*. Good job too because as the moonlight filters through the bars - Hugh learns his true heritage. Biding his time until his release he dreams of the Black Hill and the bloody freedom craved. After being released he heads home briefly before hitching a ride to the city. The werewolf has a field day and is soon Britain's most wanted sex killer. Joining up with a band of gypsies he escapes back to his home territory. Enter Gordon Hall , older but packing a crossbow with silver tipped arrows... This arguably is the best written of Guy Smith's trilogy and though it treads no new ground plotwise , it's still chockful of pulpy fun. I particularly liked the inclusion of the mythical Black Dogs , who eventually hunt down the werewolf for a showdown , Gordon already having shot his load ... into a wooden beam! I think the three books in the series are ripe for a critical re-evaluation. Guy Smith successfully transports what is a European mythical concept into the British countryside bringing something unique to the annals of lychanthrope literature.Smith's skill in evoking atmosphere through characterisation and description works throughout the series and there is a consistency that four years between first and last book fails to diminish. One can only hope that his novel NIGHT OF THE WEREWOLF becomes available in print at some point ( it can be purchased on CD at present) and surely Guy has one more werewolf outing in him I'd hope , after enjoying this trilogy , I want more. Hope you enjoyed this journey! KC Read this back to back with oozing pus orgy The Festering and consider myself a better man for the experience. Hugh Gunn's kickabout in the Llanadevy school playground reassures us early doors that, on this occasion, the blurb tells no lie - the boy has inherited his rapist father's deadly gene. Two years for tearing apart schoolmaster Williams is surprisingly lenient, especially when the "model prisoner" is released early for exemplary conduct. By now Margaret Gunn has already confided in husband Vic that the child is not his but the spawn of Tom Owen, the psychopathic sex fiend who masqueraded as a werewolf. In Hugh's case, there is no such posturing: come the full moon he is transformed into a fanged, hairy, bestial monster. Within days of his release from Shrewsbury Prison, young Gunn has raped and mutilated a nurse, devoured three muggers, ripped up Veronica the prostitute, and savaged the self-styled king of the gypsies. "They've labelled him the new Jack the Ripper!" Margaret and Vic contact Gordon Hall, the pipe-smoking werewolf-hunter, who molds two silver bullets for his crossbow in readiness for the final reckoning. Meanwhile, the legendary Black Dogs of Black Hill - spectral harbingers of doom who may or may not be ancient Druid priests - are on the case. For reasons left unexplained, they too disapprove of Hugh's activities .... Readers of a sensitive disposition are advised that this novel contains an instance of hedgehog abuse. This apart, it's possibly GNS's least taxing read this side of The Slime Beast. You've torn through the 120 pages before you even realise you got started.
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