The Werewolf Scrapbook

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Hugh Rankin

Wallace West - Loup Garou: (Weird Tales, Oct. 1927). Bloodshed and Black Sorcery in "Merrie England" during the Crusades. Sir Robert's only son, Brian, is murdered and Lady Constance abducted by that fiend in human form, Sir Henry, "the Gray Wolf of Barnecan Castle." Brave knight Gil Couteau, freshly arrived from Palestine and bored out of his skull, takes the fight to the beast. Routine Gothic Romance, not especially original but good fun.

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William Cornish - Howl, Wolf, Howl. (Theodore S. Hecht [ed.], Adventures In Horror #1, Oct. 1970). By night he was an awful victim of an ancient curse; by day he was hidden in the faceless throng of humanity.

Peg's new beau Jack Krowell has a bad name among the good people of Huntley on account of his wife disappeared in mysterious circumstances/ he's a suspected man-wolf/ he's Welsh. Sensible Peg has no time for such nonsense. "Mrs. Chalmers, I think you’re a nice woman, but how much more of this clap-trap do you think I can take?” Jack invites Peg around to his place on the night of the full moon ....

"Beth fainted as the man-animal came toward her. He tried to speak but could only growl out his passion."

Obadiah Kemph - It Takes Two For Terror. (Theodore S. Hecht [ed.], Adventures In Horror #2, Dec. 1970). Beth became an unwilling lover - as a pair of fiends battled to possess her.

A terrible tear up between a randy werewolf and a reanimated Egyptian mummy - with Beth, an innocent young museum worker, as the prize! Possibly written by Ed. Wood jnr.

"The lust-driven creature carried her off in his rotting arms - to share an eternity of living death."

With the third issue, Adventures In Horror became Horror Stories though the format remained the same. According to Brian J. Frost's Essential Guide To Werewolf Literature, the renamed magazine included at least one more example of lunatic werewolf pulp.

Michael Pretorius - One Last Death Prowl For The Man Who Howled Like a Wolf!. (Theodore S. Hecht [ed.], Horror Stories #1, Feb. 1971). This loping, cantering, murdering creature had once been a man of dignity, of honor.

See also thread for Early erotic horror stories & mags

Attachments:

Howl Wolf Howl.pdf (101.05 KB)

It Takes Two For Terror.pdf (120.36 KB)

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A shame that I missed those magazines when they were on the market. I would have collected them all, I fear.

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Raoul Kasatrovich (ed.) Werewolves & Vampires #1 (Charlton, 1962)

Werewolf Weirdness
Panorama of Werewolf and Vampire Movie Madness
Joseph H. Krusher, Authority on Strange Phenomena - The Casebook of Dr. Hala Baji: Part I. Werewolves.
Lycanthropy illustrated
Professor A. Zoologist - Don't Cry Wolf (Smile Instead!)
Pinup
Werewolves & Vampires presents its Early Show: I Was A Teenage Werewolf
The Poetry Pit:
Miss Fluttering Hart — "The Way-ward Werewolf"
Allan Roderic — Night Of Horror (short fiction)
Pinup

Vile Vampires
Joseph H. Krusher - The Casebook of Dr. Haji Baji: Part II. Vampires
The Undead illustrated
Werewolves & Vampires presents its Late Show: The Brides of Dracula
The Poetry Pit:
Miss Fluttering Hart — "Ode To A Vampire”
Ghouls and Gags
Bela Lugosi’s original "Dracula
Special Supernatural Bonus
"Curse of the Werewolf’

---- OUR SOMBER STAFF ----
Raoul Kasatrovich .. editor
Kasa Raoulvichtro .. associate editor
Trovich Kasaraoul .. art director
Alouvich Trorasak .. associate
Vichkas Larouitro .. special defects
Sound Effects EEEEEEKKKK!

Allan Roderic — Night Of Horror; "An Original Horror Tale Never Before Published Anywhere!" A hack journalist reckons it will be a great hoot to spend the night in Werevale which, allegedly, has recently come under attack from werewolves. He boards with an old couple are adamant that the story is a tissue of lives - the culprit for the recent fatalities is a vampires. The local storekeeper, however, is adamant that the old timers are loup garou! Man, this is going to be one Hell of a "humorous" article!

From (where else?) the Tit-bits of supernatural 'fact' and fiction, Horror Stories #3, February 1971.

Attachments:

Night Of Horror.pdf (103.6 KB)

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Hugh Rankin

Robert E. Howard - In the Forest of Villefère: (Weird Tales, Aug. 1925). Northern France. A soldier encounters a masked man as he makes his way toward the border. The masked man, who gives his name as Carolus le Loup, informs him that the forest is shunned by night - few dare even venture within during the day - on account of it is haunted by "a fiend - a werewolf." As the moon rises, the kindly le Loup lures him to a lonely glade ....

Robert E. Howard - Wolfshead: (Weird Tales, April 1926). "If a werewolf is slain in the half-form of a man, his ghost will haunt the slayer through eternity."

A party at the Castle of Don Vincente deep in the African jungle. Among the guests, De Monteur, the very same chevalier waylaid by the werewolf in the Forest of Villefère. Horribly mauled in the attack, De Monteur is possessed by the evil soul of le Loup. During the intervening years, he has mutilated several victims and cannot trust himself to walk abroad on the night of a full moon. A revolt among the slaves provides opportunity for redemption.

Robert E. Howard - Wolfsdung: (Robert M. Price (ed.), Cromlech #3, 1988). Published very posthumously. Wolfshead rewritten as a proto-Benny Hill Show sketch.

Robert E. Howard - The Hyena: (Weird Tales, March 1928). Senecozo the fetish man is so lary that even the vicious Masai tribe are wary of him. Those who cross him are invariably eaten by a huge hyena. When a white woman, Ellen Farel, arrives at the trading post from New York, Senecozo takes a shine to her. Steve, our narrator, rides to Ellen's rescue.

Frank Brunner

Ramsey Campbell - Night Beat: (Haunt Of Horror Vol I, July 1973). Rookie PC Sloane is so distressed on finding a mutilated body dumped in an alley that his superiors discreetly withdraw him from a top priority manhunt. Yet Sloane knows intuitively that the murders are connected to the Museum-cum-Planetarium ...

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Herbert Morton Stoops

H. Bedford Jones - The Wolf Woman: (Blue Book, August 1939). In reply to a letter from Miss Stephens, a young stenographer and keen student of lycanthrope, SANE SCIENTIST Norman Fletcher of the Inventors' Club explains the origins of the werewolf myth via a demonstration of his most brilliant contraption to date. "The tremendous power of his ultrasonic mechanism could recapture, by a sort of backward television, real incidents from across the ages."

Lady Indra, ferocious warrior Queen of the Ayrans, rebels against King Savastri's all-conquering barbarians, the Dravidians. Each night Indra pulls on the girdle and head-dress of a wolf and, accompanied by Vic ( her pet, a real wolf), enters Savastri's castle by means of a secret passage. Several guards and two princesses are butchered before the wise King identifies the culprit.

Writing in The Fantastic Pulps, Peter Haining champions The Wolf Woman as "one of the most outstanding - if neglected - stories around the werewolf theme." Swordplay, blood and guts, Sci-fi, true love (albeit one-sided), it's just a shame the story lacks an actual werewolf, unless, of course, I'm missing something, which is highly probable.

John Richard Flanagan

Thanks to the good folk at SFFaudio, you can judge for yourself HERE

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Words & illustrations: Howard Pyle

Howard Pyle - The Salem Wolf: (Harper's Monthly, Dec. 1909). Deacon Graves denies Granny Whitlow access to the cider-house on account of she has the evil eye. The terrible old crone retaliates by thrice cursing him. As Granny goes to the gallows she reassures Graves that the final curse is most dreadful of all, and so it proves when his daughter, Miriam, takes to foaming at the mouth and sleepwalking. Her episodes of somnambulism coincide with a series of raids on local farms by a ravenous wolf, the first seen in Salem for thirty years. When the wolf does for Ezra Doolittle, wise old Patrick Duncan, who has previous experience of this kind of thing in Poland, loads his rifle with a silver bullet. Abijah Butler, fiancée of Miriam, settles for an axe.

Susan Carleton Jones - The Lame Priest: (Atlantic Monthly #88, Dec. 1901). "Somehow, he was not a comfortable companion, and I was sorry I had no lunatic asylum." Narrator provides shelter for a black-clad outcast limping at speed through the snowbound backwoods. The stranger's arrival in the community coincides with that of a wolf-pack and the grisly deaths of several children. Only the Native Americans realise the terrible truth and deal with the werepriest accordingly.

Much more effective than I remembered it, thanks to first rate performances from both the doomed, perma-tormented priest and the ancient Injun who ultimately ends the reign of terror.

Ramsey Campbell - Hybrid: Good old Cornish hospitality - in the form of a kindly stranger named Lupus - revives Tom Dickson's flagging spirits no end.

Ramsey Campbell - The Mask:"I saw this thing in the window of a junk-shop, and suddenly it struck me that it would be rather good to have a Hallowe'en joke on the villagers, so I went in and got the skin." A Halloween prank goes belly-up with disastrous consequences.

Ramsey's first surviving werewolf stories, written between 1958/58. See Ghostly Tales

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Margaret Brundage

Arlton Eadie - The Wolf-Girl Of Josselyn: (Weird Tales, Aug. 1938). "An engrossing novelette of the Barking Women of Josselin, the Ghoul Pack, and the struggle between a mother's love and an ancient curse."

Two English travellers passing through Bretany woodland are rescued from the 'ghoul pack' by a white she-wolf whose eyes hold "an expression of understanding, almost human." Once the wolves disperse, the pair, Alan Grantham and our narrator, are joined by Corrine, the regulation pulp princess, who leads them back to the village and safety. Grantham is so besotted by this charming girl he proposes marriage. They wed, but the Priest, Nicholas Didier, warns his companion of the curse on the women of Josselyn, all of them doomed to devour the souls of those they love most on the night of the full moon.

From the strange issue which, cover painting apart, ran no original artwork whatsoever. Virgil Finlay's familiar depictions of de Grandin & Trowbridge, Rankin's perennial 'Weird Story Reprint' logo, and that's your lot. Wonder what happened there?

Not read this pair but surely worthy of listing are:

Charles D. Hammer (Robert J. Silverberg ?) - The Man Who Believed in Werewolves: (Monster Parade # 2 , Nov 1958. Werewolves weren't a myth, not to Mr. Ferencz, at least.

Gordon Fry - Seven Curses Of Lust : (Monster Parade # 2 , Nov 1958. That magic amulet sure did strange things to, and for, Herman..

Nancy A. Collins - Vargyr Rule: Can't make head or tail of my notes, but from what I recall, a werewolf rock band and their sister make short work of a predatory male slag who haunts the gig circuit. (Shock Rock, Pocket, 1992).

Flavia Richardson - Brood Of The Beast: (Hutchinsons Mystery Story, May 1925). CCT's first published supernatural horror story?

Marie de France - The Werewolf: (Alex Hamilton [ed.] - The Cold Embrace, Corgi, 1966).

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Mike Ploog, Loup Garou
Dave Cockrum , Who's Afraid?

Joan Aiken - Furry Night: (Argosy, Nov. 1958: Peter Haining (ed.), Nightfrights, Gollancz, 1972). "He made the comedies too macabre ... but in the tragedies there was no one to touch him. His MacBeth was something to make you shudder ... he used to take two or three stealthy steps across the stage, and you could literally see the grey fur rise on his hackles, the lips draw back from the fangs, the yellow eyes begin to gleam. It made a cold chill run down your spine."

Sir Murdoch Meredith, founder of the Garrick Theatre Museum, was forced to retire from the stage when his fellow Thespians complained to Equity of back-stage intimidation. Sir Murdoch is afflicted by lycanthrope. The transformation comes upon him whenever he flies into a rage, which is often.

It falls to young Dr. Ian Peacock to chaperone Sir Murdoch on his first return to Cornwall in thirty years. He quit the ancestral hall at Polgrue when the love of his life jilted him at the altar. His condition dates from the same period. Peacock is understandably concerned that the holiday will trigger unpleasant memories and far worse. Sir Murdoch proves a model patient until word gets around that Clarissa Defoe, daughter of the local GP, has revived the ancient tradition of 'The Furry Race' - an inter-village challenge that will see his estate over-run by the local rowdies ...

a. a. Attanasio - Loup Garou: (Haunt Of Horror #1, June 1973). Haiti. With the village under threat from a Houngan turned werewolf, Nappy Head uses his late mother's bones to conjure a Loa.

Calvin Demmon - Who's Afraid?: (Fantastic, Dec. 1972). "What an adventure! The mind of a scientist in the body of a wolf!"

Diary of a thirteen year old boy genius recording nightly events since he began pilfering father's sleeping pills. Either the old man's a secret dope fiend or the chemist fobbed him off with a dud batch, because the kid is transformed into a werewolf. The precocious know-all repeats the experiment over three nights, drawing the unwanted attentions of two seasoned werewolves who shadow him from the park to the front door. His parents catch on to his light-fingered ways and hide the jar, but the hunger for knowledge and raw meat is upon him and he'll suffer interference from neither man nor beast.

J. D. Beresford - The Hidden Beast: (Signs & Wonders, Putnams, 1921). " I live between two worlds.... The wild and .... the restrained." From the terrible screams emanating from his house at night, the gossip has it that he is torturing some wild animal. The council vote unanimously that he be asked to leave the village. The strange recluse cheerfully welcomes a search of his home, and the committee find nothing to substantiate the wicked whispers. Perhaps they should have waited until the night of a full moon.

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Bearing in mind the dubious delights of same series' v**pire entry, Fangs For The Mammaries, am not so sure I'm up for this one.

Esther M. Friesner (ed.) - Strip Mauled: Supernatural Suburbia 2 (Baen, 2009)

Clyde Caldwell

Esther M. Friesner - Introduction: Leader of the Pack
Jody Lynn Nye - Howl!
K. D. Wentworth - Special Needs
Tracy S. Morris - Fish Story
Tim Waggoner - Blame It on the Moonlight
Lucienne Diver - Imaginary Fiend
Daniel M. Hoyt - Neighborhood Bark-B-Q
Laura J. Underwood - That Time of the Month
Berry Kercheval - Pack Intern
Karen Everson - Support Your Local Werewolf
Esther M. Friesner - Isn't That Special
Linda L. Donahue - Prowling for Love
Robert Hoyt - Lighter Than Were
Steven Piziks - Enforcement Claws
Selina Rosen - Where-Wolf
David D. Levine - Overnight Moon
Dave Freer - Wolfy Ladies
Kevin Andrew Murphy - Frijoles for Fenris
Sarah A. Hoyt - The Case of the Driving Poodle
Robin Wayne Bailey - Meet the Harrys
Jim C. Hines - The Creature in Your Neighborhood
David Freer - Dragon's Fire (excerpt)
About the Editor

Blurb:
The Follow-Up to Witch Way to the Mall from the Creator of the Chicks in Chainmail Series. It’s the Werewolves’ Turn to Howl Across the Well-Kept Lawns and Neat Picket Fences of Supernatural Suburbia. Werewolves and the suburbs are a natural go-together. Okay, so they’re not the Obligatory/Iconic Suburban Golden Retriever or Chocolate Labrador, but they’ve got a much better chance of taking home the Best in Show ribbon than their Undead rivals, the vampires. In some suburban households, if it brings home a trophy, who cares if it also brings home bloody chunks of the neighbors every time the full moon shines? And let’s not forget one more advantage to the suburban werewolf: If his lupine side does something nasty on your lawn, his human side can come by later with the Pooper Scooper. In your face, Dracula!

Therefore, welcome to the fur-sprouting, mall-browsing, moon-howling, latté-sipping world of Strip Mauled. You’ll like what you find.

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Apr 29, 2018 10:34:48 GMT dem said:

Bearing in mind the dubious delights of same series' v**pire entry, Fangs For The Mammaries, am not so sure I'm up for this one.

Esther M. Friesner (ed.) - Strip Mauled: Supernatural Suburbia 2 (Baen, 2009)

That cover is pure Baen for you. As Jojo pointed out previously in the Fangs for the Mammaries thread, the publisher is legendary for their awful covers. In fact, this one doesn’t come near some of their worst ones.

Having said that, I always did like Baen’s cover for John the Balladeer by Manly Wade Wellman.

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Apr 29, 2018 12:15:25 GMT cauldronbrewer said:

That cover is pure Baen for you. As Jojo pointed out previously in the Fangs for the Mammaries thread, the publisher is legendary for their awful covers. In fact, this one doesn’t come near some of their worst ones.

Thank you SO MUCH for sharing. Can't argue with their overall winner, but that Hokas Pokas monstrosity is surely deserving of a higher placing than sixth. Truly revolting.

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Hannes Bok

Carl Jacobi - The Phantom Pistol: (Weird Tales, May 1941). The pistol drew him like a powerful lodestone. Hugh Trevellan is a noted authority on antique fire-arms, the pride of his collection, an anti-werewolf pistol designed by Johann Stiffler of Prague to the specifications of Sir William Kingston in 1712 for his crusade versus the forces of evil. Trevellan invites pal Martin Mackay to visit his new home in the English countryside. He acquired the property dirt cheap on the death of Ludwig Blueker, undertaker, a shady character who left behind a library rammed with Black Magic titles, including Milo Calument's abominable I Am A Werewolf. Mackay finds his old friend much changed, and not for the better. Perhaps he's just upset that a child-eating werewolf is at large in Darset, and the first attack coincided with his arrival in the village.

Dan Linsay - The Beatnik Werewolf: (MF&SF, Dec. 1960). It had to be a gag, because nobody has a name like Boris Swearoff. And a werewolf too? Like man that's too much!. A lonesome werewolf longs to settle down with his new chick, maybe raise some cubs, and become a regular square. He writes to Lane, a Sci-Fi author, mistaking him for an authority on lycanthropy, requesting advice. They arrange to meet at Marie's, the local drop outs' bar of choice. "If beatnik means mangy, then they were beatnik. Most of them could have used a shave, a haircut, a toothbrush, and most of all, a bath." Mr. Swearoff, very much at home in such surroundings, is the real deal, albeit disappointingly benign. "Like man I've lost my taste for blood." Lane sorts him out, soon wishes he hadn't when Boris introduces his chick.

Barry N. Malzberg - Nightshapes: (Charles L. Grant [ed.], Horrors, 1981: originally Bill Pronzini Werewolf!, 1979).

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There are exceptions, but the late 'fifties, early 'sixties trend for offbeat werewolf - and v*mp*re - skits fast grates if you read too many on the spin. No such worries with Mrs. Mooney and Meredith who play it commendably straight.

Alan Hunter

Brian Mooney - The Witch of Nuide: (Dark Horizons #15, BFS, Winter 1976). Spey Valley, mid-sixteenth century. Farmer Duncan, a newcomer to Ruthven, has no time for childish Highland superstitions and refuses to pay protection money to the bane of the district, Mairi Dhu, alleged powerful witch and shape-shifter. The locals believe that the crone can take the form of any animal at will, and Duncan is soon afforded a demonstration when a were-hare suckles his cows dry. An unnerved Duncan relents, offers her his two fattest fowls, but Black Mairu refuses the bribe and warns him he'll be dead before the year is done. Two months later, returning home late from Newtonmore Fair, Duncan is set upon by a She-wolf ....

Larry Eugene Meredith - The Last Letter of Norman Underwood: (R. A. W. Londres [ed.], Magazine Of Horror #19, Jan 1968). Following his father's death, Norman Underwood, 27, sells the family store and quits Northwood for a new life in the mining town of Cardside. Underwood, whose twin passions are American folk music and horror fiction, is initially delighted when neighbour Mister Groff proves "a great fancier of werewolf legends." Norman's shepherd dog, Heff, doesn't share his enthusiasm and gives Groff the widest berth until -

One night Underwood hears a commotion in the road. A werewolf has trapped a terrified woman against the side of Groff's house! The police have arrived, but their bullets are useless. Norman goes at the creature with the nearest silver weapon at hand - a table fork - and stabs it through the heart. Heff, badly clawed, finishes it off. Underwood volunteers to bury the beast which, by morning, has reverted back to Mr. Groff. That should have been the end of things had not Norman been bitten in the conflict. When three gruesome murders occur over one evening, Underwood writes what turns out to be his penultimate letter to 'Buddy' informing him that tonight is a full moon and, should what he suspects prove true, he will kill himself with a silver bullet ....

Two really good stories (I've not spoiled the endings). Am beginning to believe that maybe a very decent pulp-fuelled 100 Wild Little Werewolves anthology would not have been beyond Dziemianowicz-Weinberg-Greenberg after all.

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May 1, 2018 12:16:48 GMT dem said:

Two really good stories (I've not spoiled the endings). Am beginning to believe that maybe a very decent pulp-fuelled 100 Wild Little Werewolves anthology would not have been beyond Dziemianowicz-Weinberg-Greenberg after all.

It would be an interesting challenge to put together a table of contents limited to short-shorts. But has Dragan Vujic written any short tales?