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Post by dem bones on Oct 9, 2008 22:53:07 GMT
Peter Haining (ed) - Werewolf: Horror Stories Of The Man-Beast (Severn House, 1987) Trevor Newman Introduction - Peter Haining
Catherine Crowe - The Lycanthropist Henry Beaugrand - The Werwolves Algernon Blackwood - The Wolves Of God Oliver Onions - The Master Of The House Montague Summers - The Phantom Werewolf Guy Endore - The Wolf Girl Seabury Quinn - Fortune’s Fools Robert E. Howard - Wolfshead Paul Selonke - Beast Of The Island Jane Rice - The Refugee Robert Bloch - The Man Who Cried ‘Wolf!’ Ralph Thornton - I Was A Teenage Werewolf T. H. White - The Point Of Thirty Miles Basil Copper - Cry Wolf James O. Farlow - The Demythologised Lycanthrope Ralph Thornton - I Was A Teenage Werewolf"At the time I Was A Teenage Werewolf was released [1957], the scriptwriter Ralph Thornton wrote a short story version of the film for the magazine Screen Chills, and I am pleased to reprint this tale for the first time in book form." Peter Haining, introduction to Werewolf: Horror Stories Of The Man-Beast(Severn House, 1987) "What's wrong with you? Why the heck don't you smile now and again. You're suspicious of everybody ... you act like the whole world's your enemy ... the way you flare up."
"Oh, finish your beef will ya! People just bug me. .... I've had enough yakety-yak to last me to the end of term!" Tony is a pupil at Rockdale High, a nice enough kid, but he's got problems. Of late he's been acting all surly, prone to flying into terrible rages, beating up on his pals and neglecting to cook his burgers before he eats them. In other words, as the title suggests, he's a teenager. Once he's had his leg over, it will all be dismissed as a "phase he was going through". After being called to the school to break up yet another bundle, well-meaning detective Donovan, rather than drag him back to the precinct, plant drugs on him and bust him for resisting arrest, adopts a namby pamby wet lib approach. He urges him to go see Dr. Brandon who's been working with the Police Department, "trying to help difficult kids get adjusted." What's more, he refuses to accept a cent for his time! After bashing another classmate at the Halloween party when the youth blew a horn in his ear, Tony decides to take Donovan's advice because he doesn't want to keep upsetting his girlfriend, Arlene (sorely underused. Absolutely nothing for the Globeswatch gang to get their teeth into: looks lovingly at Tony with tears in her eyes every now and then, but that's it. ). Needless to say, Brandon, far from being the philanthropic, saintly man he promotes himself as, is an evil mad scientist who hypnotises Tony, pumps him full of drugs and makes him regress to a beast whenever he hears loud noises. Like, the school bell, for instance. Nice one, Dr. Brandon, you barking megalomaniac - that's just what the poor boy needs! And him with his dead mom and all. Shame on you! The first killing takes place when classmate Frank decides against accepting a lift home from the club with Tony and Arlene and heads off into the woods, humming the latest hit parade favourite. When his body is found ripped to shreds, one of the students, Pepe, starts blabbering to Detective Donovan about "the old country ... in my little village in the Carpathian Mountains ... fangs ... werewolf!", etc.. Donovan tells the schmuck to quit talking like that or he'll wind up in the "booby hatch", but he's more troubled by the boys theory than he lets on. Next to the slaughter is Theresa: " ... the school's top athlete, was practicing on the parallel bars. A well-built girl, she was dressed in a form-hugging black jumper and tights. Every movement she made showed off her lovely young curves."" Tony happens to be passing the gymnasium when .... the electric bell rings! This time the beast is spotted scampering from the scene of the crime. It is a wolf - but it's wearing Tony's jacket and trousers! As a Police search gets underway, the desperate Tony, horrified at his actions, makes for Dr. Brandon's laboratory .... In short, thirteen pages of pure trash horror platinum.
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Post by dem bones on Jan 19, 2012 11:14:10 GMT
T. H. White - The Point Of Thirty Miles: Upper class toff Frosty recalls the strangest and most terrifying experience of all his years with the hunt. Pursuing a fox along the Thames, the pack caught scent of an altogether more dangerous prey - a huge wolf. It took them thirty miles to catch up with the exhausted beast, whereupon the hounds dragged it down and tore out its entrails. But before the dying creature was ripped to pieces, Frosty witnessed a terrible transformation that sent him scurrying off to the nearest pub.
James O. Farlow - The Demythologised Lycanthrope (Analog, May 1977). Victor Tormany, an East European afflicted with the taint of lycanthrope, escapes during a black out at the Northwestern Marine Biological Center where he's being studied by the very pleased with himself Dr. Daniel Mackerman. The werewolf mauls several staff members before taking a tumble into a shark-infested pool (!), but the taint lives on in narrator Bill and, presumably, the several people bitten during Vic's bloody rampage.
Basil Copper - Cry Wolf: As used by Basil to open his 'non-fiction' study, The Werewolf: In Legend Fact & Art. and something of a favourite with anthologists ever since. A werewolf subjects the people of a snowbound French village to a reign of terror. The narrator and his boy, Andrew, join the hunt for the creature which had already torn the throats from sheep and children before taking out a few stray adults. It's as by numbers a story as lycanthrope literature gets and you guess the culprit early. But nagging doubts remains: did they get the right person?
Montague Summers - The Phantom Werewolf: An Oxford scholar finds a misshapen skull and unwisely leaves it hanging around on the mantelpiece. That night his wife is near terrified out of her wits when a hirsute, red-eyed beast comes clawing at the window. A drowned werewolf wants its property returned. Short and sweet.
Robert Bloch - The Man Who Cried Wolf!: Charles and Violet Colby move to a cabin in the wilds of Canada, home to Violet's Canuck ancestors from whom she's inherited a head full of superstition. So, when a wolf glares in at her through the window during the night of a full moon, she immediately assumes "loup garou!". Charles assures her it's nothing of the sort and tells her off for being such a babbling imbecile - werewolves don't exist and, besides, he knows more about the situation than most. He's been secretly seeing Lisa, the "half-Indian, half goddess", and together they play on Violet's fears hoping to drive her insane. But then the killings begin, with chewed and torn corpses littering the county and it transpires that Lisa really is a werewolf: Colby witnesses her metamorphosis with his own eyes. With Sheriff Crogin of the Mounties on the case and vigilantes searching the woods, will Colby save his wife or leave her to be murdered by his lycanthropic bit on the side?
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Post by dem bones on Jan 19, 2012 18:31:22 GMT
To the best of my knowledge, Haining edited six books in this series for Severn House, some (all?) of which were published as Target paperbacks. Along with Werewolf there were Vampires: Chilling Tales of the Undead, Tales Of The Walking Dead (aka Zombie), Poltergeist: Tales of Deadly Ghosts, The Mummy: Stories of the Living Corpse and Movie Monsters. I don't know why i didn't get along so well with Werewolf the first time around though i suspect the Blackwood and (surprisingly) Seabury Quinn stories may have had something to do with it, the latter being a medieval ripping yawn featuring the gallant Ramon, an ancestor of Jules De Grandin. Guy Endore - The Wolf Girl: Alaska. Miners John Preston and Jack Hudson are holed up in their remote shack playing chess when there's a knock upon their door. Nobody there. The knock is repeated, Preston draws his revolver and yanks open the door to reveal a beautiful young woman in white fur with a knife in her belt. Preston, the elder of the two men, realises from the first that the gal named Flush of Gold is a werewolf but Hudson is smitten. The two friends fall out. Finally, Preston decides that tonight he'll delay Goldie at the shack until midnight when she'll take on her true form ... Catherine Crowe - The Lycanthropist: A contemporary account of the crimes of legendary graveyard ghoul Sergeant Bertrand, the inspiration for Guy Endore's The Werewolf Of Paris. "I have omitted several painful and disgusting particulars" admits Mrs Crowe but fret not, her reticence can't spoil what is a delightfully morbid account of his atrocities. Henry Beaugrand - The Werwolves: ( The Century Magazine, August 1898). Fort Richelieu, Christmas 1706. The preceding months have seen the Iroquois playing up, burning neighbouring homesteads and butchering every white man, woman and child to fall into their clutches. An old trapper keeps the troops' spirits up with a yarn about a pal and himself chancing upon a twelve-strong party of injun werewolves alternating between dancing around a fire and eating the white guy they've staked out in the woods. The trappers are invited to join the feast but decline and scatter the fiends by shooting 'em full of rosary beads. here are the details of the three we've not yet covered (missing cover scans gratefully received). as is so often the case with PH, there may have been a little tampering with/ restoration of original titles. Arthur Conan-Doyle's The Mummy is surely better known to most as The Ring of Thoth but is My New Year’s Eve Among the Mummies aka Pallinghurst Barrow? Is 'Peter Dare's The Beam any relation of M. P. Dare's story of the same title? And so on and so on. Peter Haining (ed.) – Poltergeist: Tales of Deadly Ghosts (Severn House, 1987) Introduction – Peter Haining
Lord Lytton -The Haunted And The Haunters Ambrose Bierce – A Fruitless Assignment Rudyard Kipling – Haunted Subalterns Edgar Wallace – The Death Room Robert S. Carr – Phantom Fingers E. F. Benson – Thursday Evenings Seabury Quinn – The Poltergeist Elliott O’Donnell – The Mystery Of Beechcroft Farm Mary Elizabeth Counselman – Parasite Mansion Laurence Housman – Maggie’s Bite William F. Harvey – Miss Cornelius Peter Dare – The Beam August Derleth – A Knocking In the Wall Charles Duff – The Haunted Bungalow Nigel Kneale – Minuke Kurt Singer – Poltergeist!Peter Haining – The Mummy: Stories of the Living Corpse (Severn House, 1988) Thanks to Tommy for providing the cover scan! Introduction – Peter Haining
Edgar Allan Poe – Some Words With A Mummy Grant Allen – My New Year’s Eve Among the Mummies Arthur Conan Doyle – Lot No. 249 E. & H. Heron – The Story Of Baelbrow Guy Boothby – A Professor Of Egyptology Sax Rohmer – The Mysterious Mummy Théophile Gautier – The Mummy’s Foot Jeffery Farnol – Black Coffee 'Harry Houdini' [H. P. Lovecraft] – Imprisoned With The Pharoahs Elliott O’Donnell – The Mummy Worshippers A. Hyatt Verrill – The Flying Head E. F. Benson – Monkeys Griffin Jay & Henry Sucher – The Mummy’s Ghost Robert Bloch – The Secret Of Sebek Dennis Wheatley – A Life For A Life Ray Bradbury – Colonel Stonesteel’s Genuine Home-Made Truly Egyptian MummyPeter Haining (ed.) – Movie Monsters (Severn House, 1988) Introduction – Peter Haining
Ray Bradbury – Inviting Frankenstein into the Parlour (Bela, Boris and Me) Gaston Leroux – Balaoo:The Demon Baboon (extract) Chayim Bloch – The Golem Richard Marsh The Beetle (extract) Arthur Conan Doyle – The Mummy Edgar Wallace & Draycot M. Dell – King Kong Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley & Guy Preston – The Bride of Frankenstein Bram Stoker – Dracula’s Daughter (Dracula’s Guest) H. G. Wells – The War of the Worlds (abridged) Ray Bradbury – The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (The Foghorn) M. R. James – The Night of the Demon (Casting the Runes) George Langelaan – The Fly John W. Campbell – The Thing (Who Goes There?)
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Jan 20, 2012 0:28:59 GMT
To the best of my knowledge, Haining edited six books in this series for Severn House, some (all?) of which were published as Target paperbacks. Along with Werewolf there were Vampires: Chilling Tales of the Undead, Tales Of The Walking Dead (aka Zombie), Poltergeist: Tales of Deadly Ghosts, The Mummy: Stories of the Living Corpse and Movie Monsters. The ISFDB lists Target editions for Vampire and Zombie but not the others, for whatever that's worth. I have the Severn House editions of Stories of the Walking Dead, Poltergeist, The Mummy, and Movie Monsters, but I've never been able to find a copy of Werewolf for a reasonable price--which bugs me, because I love a good (or even so-so) werewolf story.
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Post by dem bones on Jan 21, 2012 12:20:19 GMT
I've never been able to find a copy of Werewolf for a reasonable price--which bugs me, because I love a good (or even so-so) werewolf story. As with Zombies, the werewolf anthology seems to have undergone something of a revival in the last ten years. Maybe the popularity of Paranormal Romance has something to do with it? These three look particularly interesting. John Skipp (ed) - Werewolves and Shape Shifters: Encounters with the Beasts Within (Black Dog, 2010) Charlotte F. Otten - The Literary Werewolf: An Anthology (Syracuse University Press (October 2002) Andrew Barger (ed) - The Best Werewolf Short Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Werewolf Anthology (Bottletree Classics, 2010) Some earlier ones: Douglas Hill (ed) The Way Of The Werewolf (Panther, 1966) Brian J. Frost (ed) Book Of The Werewolf (Sphere, 1973) Michel Parry (ed.) - The Hounds Of Hell (Gollancz, 1974: Arrow, 1975) Bill Pronzini (ed) - Werewolf!: A Chrestomathy of Lycanthropy (Arbor House, 1979) Bill Pronzini - Introduction Avram Davidson - Loups-Garous (verse)
Clemence Housman - The Were Wolf Guy De Maupassant - The Wolf Rudyard Kipling - The Mark of the Beast Bram Stoker - Dracula's Guest Saki - Gabriel-Ernest. James Blish -There Shall Be No Darkness Barry N. Malzberg - Nightshapes Fritz Leiber - The Hound Bruce Elliott - Wolves Don't Cry Peter S. Beagle - Lila the Werewolf. Clark Ashton Smith - A Prophecy of Monsters Brian W. Aldiss - Full SunPeter Haining (ed) Werewolf (Severn House, 1987) Byron Priess (ed) The Ultimate Werewolf (Dell, 1991) Stephen Jones (ed.) Mammoth Book Of Werewolves/ The Wolf Men ((Robinson, 1994/ 2009) Mark Valentine (ed) The Werewolf Pack (Wordsworth, 2008) I'm sure Marty Greenberg must have edited at least one! There have also been a number of shared vampire/ werewolf collections - The Dark Shadows Book Of Vampires And Werewolves (Paperback Library, August 1970), The Dark Dominion (Paperback Library, Dec. 1970), Alan Durant's Vampires & Werewolves (Kingfisher, 1998), etc. Strange Stories, Oct. 1940 Back to Mr. Haining and Paul Selonke - Beast Of The Island: The casual racism dates this as of between the wars vintage even before you learn it was published in the October 1940 issue of Strange Stories. Tony and Judy Vincent answer an urgent request from Jack Vyverburg, his old pal at Law School, that they join them on his remote island in the Carribean. Once ashore, finding his secluded cottage is simply a matter of stepping over a mangled corpse - "'Something happened here,' I said in a hoarse whisper' - and following the trail of blood to his door. Tony hasn't seen Vyverberg since he gave it all up to concentrate on his painting, and the change in the man is painful to behold. He's unkempt as hell and a nervous wreck, barking orders at Abi the houseboy who hobbles everywhere on crutches. It transpires the local Obeah men have identified Vyverberg as the man-beast responsible for a series of mutilation murders, and now he's desperate that the Vincents allow him to accompany them back to the mainland. But before he can board the boat, the transformation is upon him, and it's left to Abi to save the day with a little help from Judy's silver crucifix. And do they thank him for it?
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Jan 21, 2012 15:14:01 GMT
This one looks great. The essay by the editor sounds particularly intriguing. I've read some of the stories elsewhere, but not the ones by Menzies, Campbell, Derleth, Merritt, Haaf, and Donaldson. Plus, it appears to be readily available for cheap. Something to look forward to!
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Post by dem bones on Jan 22, 2012 19:16:08 GMT
hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Such a shame Brian Frost didn't get to edit further theme anthologies - he was bloody good! Many of these stories are familiar from earlier werewolf anthologies, but am certainly tempted: Charlotte F. Otten - The Literary Werewolf: An Anthology (Syracuse University Press (October 2002) Preface Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction The Erotic Werewolf Stephen King - February, Cycle of the Werewolf Manly Banister — Eena Clemence Housman — The Were-Wolf The Rapacious Werewolf Guy de Maupassant — The Wolf Saki — Gabriel-Ernest The Diabolical Werewolf Seabury Quinn — The Thing in the Fog Brian Stableford — The Werewolves of London Gerald Biss — The Door of the Unreal The Supernatural Werewolf Rudyard Kipling — The Mark of the Beast Fritz Leiber — The Hound The Victimized Werewolf August W. Derleth & Mark Schorer - The Woman at Loon Point Eugene Field — The Werewolf The Avenging Werewolf Peter Fleming — The Kill Marie de France — The Lay of the Were-Wolf Joseph Jacobs — The Story of Rough Niall of the Speckled Rock The Guilty Werewolf Ovid — Lycaon's Punishment Mihai I. Spariosu & Dezsèo Benedek — The Bitang The Unabsolved Werewolf Seabury Quinn — The Phantom Farmhouse Algernon Blackwood — Running Wolf The Voluntary Werewolf Saki — The She-Wolf Jane Yolen — Green Messiah Bruce Elliott — Wolves Don't Cryand another winner from Mr. Haining's book, this one with a touch of the E.C. comics about it: Jane Rice - The Refugee: World War II and society girl Milli Cashman is frightfully put out by the whole business, what with those beastly German's threatening to invade the lower countries and the government insisting Miss Milli Cashman endure rationing like everybody else. So when she finds a naked Adonis hiding in her garden, Milli is really rather thrilled. The mutilation murder of her neighbour, old Philippe ("not only dead, but a bit mangled"), provides a perfect opportunity to get shot of her back-chatting maid, Maria, while she gets up close and personal with the "refugee". The nude youth, who gives his name as 'Lupus' and generally comes on like Gabriel-Ernest's spikier elder brother, is looking forward to feasting on his seemingly helpless hostess, but Milli has recently read The Werewolf Of Paris and, should all go to plan, she'll not be dining on scraps from the local butcher in the coming weeks .....
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Jan 24, 2012 0:37:06 GMT
I've thought about buying that one as well, but most of the stories are, as you say, familiar ones. Still, one doesn't see too many horror anthologies published by university presses!
I'm a fan of Jane Rice's work--enough to buy the Midnight House collection of her stories (Idol of the Flies). It's uneven, but I enjoyed most of it. The title story, "The Refugee," and "The Crest of the Wave" are the standouts (all available elsewhere), but some of the rest aren't too bad.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 1, 2012 17:44:27 GMT
As mentioned by James on the The Werewolf Scrapbook thread, Doug Anderson has suggested on Wormwoodania that, whoever wrote The Wolf Girl, it was assuredly not Guy Endore, and, in his opinion, it is not unlikely that Haining may have written it himself after a close encounter with Clemence Houseman's The Were-wolf.
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Post by humgoo on Dec 6, 2022 14:45:57 GMT
Henry Beaugrand - The Werwolves: ( The Century Magazine, August 1898). Fort Richelieu, Christmas 1706. The preceding months have seen the Iroquois playing up, burning neighbouring homesteads and butchering every white man, woman and child to fall into their clutches. An old trapper keeps the troops' spirits up with a yarn about a pal and himself chancing upon a twelve-strong party of injun werewolves alternating between dancing around a fire and eating the white guy they've staked out in the woods. The trappers are invited to join the feast but decline and scatter the fiends by shooting 'em full of rosary beads. Another attribution dispute: wormwoodiana.blogspot.com/2022/12/yet-another-peter-haining-fraud.html
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Post by helrunar on Dec 6, 2022 17:09:40 GMT
Thanks, Cheong! Inexplicable that he omitted the third part of the story since that actually included the lycanthropy material. Who can figure?
Regards, Hel.
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