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Post by dem on May 7, 2018 7:39:42 GMT
[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? Attempted an alternate 100 Vicious little Vampire Stories listing culled many from pulps, paperbacks and a 'zine or three. Made it to approximately 70 titles without hardly trying before distraction, in the form of Dark Horizons, intervened. Might pick it up again at some future date. A Werewolf equivalent might prove more of a challenge. Were-creatures most likely a better option, if only for variations sake, but, again conveniently overlooking what is likely a copyright nightmare, would suggest it's a do-able. Maybe we could persuade the excellent Mr. Vujic to provide a foreword? I suspect a 100 Mouldering Little Mummy Stories would be more fun to compile than actually read, but would certainly welcome a copy. Finally nabbed a copy of The Howling movie tie-in (Hamlyn, 5th printing, 1981), at yesterday's market. Have posted the original (?) alongside as Michael Freeman's cover photo so belongs on this thread. |
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Post by dem on May 29, 2018 19:16:21 GMT
 Hannes Bok: ( Fantasy Magazine, Feb-March 1953). "Werewolves are supposed to haunt lonely, back-country roads. That seems a little silly when you consider that most beasts of prey go where the game is thickest. Now at night, in the larger cities ...." Turf wars. A gory corpse in a Chicago shop doorway. Newspaper columnist Nick Golata and rookie cop Rezabek, noting the killer's footprints gave way to paw pads as he approached the victim, consider the possibility that a werewolf is loose in the city - leading one party to conclude that the other knows too much. Theodore Cogswell - Wolfie: ( Beyond Fantasy Fiction, Jan. 1954). "Magic always works ... even with the wrong ingredients". New York. Peter Vincent consults warlock Dr. Arsoldi for a formula to transform him into a werewolf so he can kill his cousin. A hilarious mix-up over blood samples leads to disastrous results. More wise-ass 'fifties horror. Wendi Lee & Terry Beatty - The Black Wolf: (Martin H. Greenberg, [ed.], Dracula: Prince Of Darkness, 1992). No sooner has he arrived in San Francisco than Count Dracula massacres an entire Shoshone village bar one man. Suspicion falls on the sole survivor who swears innocence, claiming an enormous black wolf set about his people. The Count next turns his attention to the womenfolk of Lacey. Marshall Ed Walker confronts him during an attack on a girl in the street, whereupon the Count launches an attack on an the Saloon. The Shoshone steps from the shadows and takes aim with an arrow .... William J. Wintle - The Voice In The Night: ( Ghost Gleams, Heath Cranton, 1921). John Barron, magistrate of Bannerton, versus the spirit of an ancient gypsy queen risen from the grave in werewolf form to feast on sheep and children. Reign of terror disappointingly brought to abrupt end - by untreated bullets - before she can inflict any decent damage. |
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Post by dem on Jun 12, 2018 7:40:14 GMT
A were-creature selection. Flavia Richardson - The Black Hare: (Christine Campbell Thomson [ed.], Keep On The Light, 1933). Sir Walter Scott - The Wer-Bear: (Bernard J. Hurwood [ed.], Monsters Galore, 1965). Sir Hugh Clifford - The Were-Tiger: (Bernard J. Hurwood [ed.], Monsters Galore, 1965). Frank Belknap Long - The Were-snake: ( Weird Tales, Sept. 1925: Avon Fantasy Reader #7, 1948). Saki - Laura: ( Beasts and Super-Beasts, 1914). Were-otter - sort of. It primarily concerns reincarnation. Saki - The Hedgehog: ( Morning Post, 19 Aug.1913). Borderline case, but the image of the spectral, evil-eyed giant albino hedgehog climbing a drainpipe is too wonderful to resist. Gerald Bullett - Dearth's Farm: ( The Street of the Eye & Nine Other Tales, 1923). Were-horse(ish). Deirdre L. Kugelmeyer - Threshold: (Charles L. Grant [ed.], Shadows 4, ). Were-gargoyle, or possibly, were-doorknob. James Wade - Temple Of The Fox: ( Korea Times, Oct. 31 1965: Such Things May Be, 2018). An American traveller in South west Korea falls foul of shape-changing monks when he mistakes their shrine for a Buddist Temple. The fox-spirits are cannibal devotees of Kang Hee, Lord of Hell. Nina Kiriki Hoffman - A Night Out; (Jessica Amanda Salmonson [ed.], Tales By Moonlight, 1985). Were-cat. H. R. Wakefield - Death Of A Poacher: ( A Ghostly Company, 1935). Were-hyena. Hugh Walpole - Tarnhelm, or The Death Of My Uncle Robert: ( All Souls Night, 1933). The old degenerate's skullcap transforms him into a dog. Algernon Blackwood - The Empty Sleeve: ( The London Magazine, Jan. 1911). Were-cat. Morgan Johnson - Panthers Of Shevgaon ( Hutchinson's Adventure Story Magazine, Oct. 1926). Christine Campbell Thomson [ed.], By Daylight Only, 1929). |
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Post by dem on Jun 14, 2018 7:56:28 GMT
 Bernie Wrightson, Wolfspawn: ( House Of Mystery #2, 1973). Andrew Darlington - Beast of the Baskervilles: (DS Davidson [ed.], Tigershark #5, 2014; A Saucerful Of Secrets, 2016). Tina Rath - Fifth Sense: (Mary Danby [ed.] 17th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories, 1984). Ruth Rendell - Loopy: ( Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Feb. 1983: Graham Masterton [ed.], Scare Care, 1989). Jeanne Youngson - The Lycanthrope: ( Count Dracula and the Unicorn & Other Stories, 1978). The evil mayor throws poor, simple Willie in jail, prepares to behead him in the village square as a warning to other werewolves. Those big-hearted vampires of Peatre Mare cemetery save the day. Ghastly. Alan Durant - Howl: (Alan Durant [ed.], Vampire & Werewolf Stories, 1998). Anthony Masters - Freeze-Up: ( Werewolf Stories to tell in The Dark, 1996: Alan Durant [ed.], Vampire & Werewolf Stories, 1998). Winifred Finlay - Terror Of The Tarras: ( Vampires, Werewolves & Phantoms of the Night, 1983: Alan Durant [ed.], Vampire & Werewolf Stories, 1998). Kenneth Ireland - The Werewolf Mask: (Anthony Horowitz [ed.], Puffin Book of Horror Stories, 1984). Acquired from a joke shop along with a pair of hairy-hand gloves. The effect is so convincing that Peter is taken for the real deal ... which can be a disadvantage when you live in the same street as the reclusive Mr. Luke Anthrope.  Vincent Napoli ( Weird Tales, May 1951) |
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Post by Michael Connolly on Jun 15, 2018 13:18:17 GMT
Bernie Wrightson, Wolfspawn Jack Oleck - Wolfspawn: ( House Of Mystery #2, 1973). Andrew Darlington - Beast of the Baskervilles: (DS Davidson [ed.], Tigershark #5, 2014; A Saucerful Of Secrets, 2016). Tina Rath - Fifth Sense: (Mary Danby [ed.] 17th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories, 1984). Ruth Rendell - Loopy: ( Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Feb. 1983: Graham Masterton [ed.], Scare Care, 1989). Jeanne Youngson - The Lycanthrope: ( Count Dracula and the Unicorn & Other Stories, 1978). The evil mayor throws poor, simple Willie in jail, prepares to behead him in the village square as a warning to other werewolves. Those big-hearted vampires of Peatre Mare cemetery save the day. Ghastly. Alan Durant - Howl: (Alan Durant [ed.], Vampire & Werewolf Stories, 1998). Anthony Masters - Freeze-Up: ( Werewolf Stories to tell in The Dark, 1996: Alan Durant [ed.], Vampire & Werewolf Stories, 1998). Winifred Finlay - Terror Of The Tarras: ( Vampires, Werewolves & Phantoms of the Night, 1983: Alan Durant [ed.], Vampire & Werewolf Stories, 1998). Kenneth Ireland - The Werewolf Mask: (Anthony Horowitz [ed.], Puffin Book of Horror Stories, 1984). Acquired from a joke shop along with a pair of hairy-hand gloves. The effect is so convincing that Peter is taken for the real deal ... which can be a disadvantage when you live in the same street as the reclusive Mr. Luke Anthrope. Vincent Napoli ( Weird Tales, May 1951) "The Last Grave of Lill Warran", also the last of the original run of the John Thunstone stories, and the first in three years, in Weird Tales, is by far the best. I first read it (and photocopied it from) my local library's copy of The Supernatural Solution (1976) edited by Michel Parry. |
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Post by dem on Jun 21, 2018 21:09:31 GMT
 Oliver Frey, for Michael Armstrong's I Was A Middle-Aged Werewolf. : ( Frighteners #1, July 1991). "Preying on defenceless humans, tearing their throats out by the light of the full moon, gorging, feeding - that was nice! The monster's problems lay elsewhere ...." Meljean Brook - In Sheep's Clothing: (Trisha Telep [ed.] The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance, Robinson, 2009). Sheriff Nathan Forrester on the trail of a serial rapist who has car-jacked and murdered four women on a stretch of the Oregon highway. Assaults coincide with arrival home of Emma, Nate's estranged childhood sweetheart. Emma narrowly avoids becoming victim #5 when the fiend attacks her with a tyre-iron, only for him to flee screaming through the woods when she bites off his thumb. Unknown - initially - to the hunky lawman, Emma is a lycanthrope, and the condition is contagious, making the woman-killer deadlier than ever. Violent content is decent, sex scene maybe a little too nice. Have read far duller werewolf fiction in recent months, that's for sure. Same volume includes Jeaniene Frost's Pack, but will leave that one for another day. |
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Post by dem on Aug 9, 2018 11:17:45 GMT
"There seems to be something almost supernatural in the malignity of this unknown fiend, and the impunity with which he continues his murderous course." Arthur Conan Doyle - A Pastoral Horror: ( People, 21 December 1890). A Jekyll & Hyde miniature, published anonymously. Possibly a contentious lycanthrope title (no shape-changing, throat-tearing, howling at the moon, etc), but a lively thriller and if Brian J. Frost considers it worthy of inclusion in The Werewolf In Literature that's good enough for me. The residents of a sleepy hamlet in the Bavarian alps come under attack from someone or something in a hoodie and woollen muffler swinging a pickaxe. An Italian pedlar, known to have quarrelled with victim #1 is taken into custody, only for the fiend in human form to strike again. It's noted that John Hudson, English tourist, and Father Verhagen, the new curé, are invariably in close vicinity of the crime scenes. The net closes in when Frau Bischoff, the landlady of the Gruner Mann tavern, fights off an unseen assailant, slashing it's arm in the process. The scarred culprit is revealed during Sunday Mass and ends his days in a lunatic asylum. Read it Here: Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia |
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Post by dem on Aug 12, 2018 12:02:51 GMT
A strong contender for inclusion in personal DIY Alternative 'Not At Night selection, this one. C. M. Eddy, Jr. - The Ghost-Eater: ( Weird Tales, April 1924). Outskirts of Glendale, Maine. Lost in the forest during a storm, the traveller chances upon a quaint house in the middle of nowhere and tries his luck. An old recluse with big hairy arms, gammy leg and piercing grey eyes bids him welcome, offers a room. Mindful that he may have fallen into the lair of a murderer, our hero opts to spend the night in a chair, revolver drawn. Sure enough, he's paid a visit by a strangely dressed mystery man who, oblivious to his presence, disrobes, climbs into bed and falls asleep. Attempting to rouse him, the traveller's hand passes clean through the man's shoulder! Hardly has he recovered his senses than a huge grey wolf with human eyes limps through the door. The ghost awakens, lets out a terrible shriek as the creature mounts the bed and tears him to pieces! The traveller makes a break for it. On reaching the nearest village he learns of one Vasili Oukranikov, who built the house in Devil's Wood. "They say he was a servant of the devil - a werewolf and eater of men." It's sixty years since the villagers razed the place to the ground, but still no-one dare venture near the ruins on the night of a full moon ... |
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Post by dem on Aug 20, 2018 16:09:06 GMT
 Allen Koszowski, Cemetery Dance #7 (Winter, 1991) : (Stephen Jones & David A. Sutton [eds.], The Anthology of Fantasy & the Supernatural, 1994) Edward Bryant - Predators: ( Night Visions: Hardshell, 1988) Emma Hooper - Nightstalking: ( Udolpho #28 (Gargoyle's Head Press, Spring 1997) Andrew Barger [ed.] - The Best Werewolf Short Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Werewolf Anthology (Bottletree Classics, 2010) Andrew Barger - Shapeshifting the Werewolf in Literature
Leitch Ritche - The Man-Wolf ( The Romance of History: France, Bull, 1831). Catherine Crowe - A Story of a Weir-Wolf ( Hogg's Weekly Instructor, May 16 1846). Richard Thomson The Wehr-Wolf: A Legend of the Limousin Captain Frederick Marryat - The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains Sutherland Menzies (Mrs. Elizabeth Stone) - Hugues the Wer-Wolf: A Kentish Legend of the Middle Ages ( Court Magazine, Apr. 1838) Blurb: Transformation of the werewolf in literature made its greatest strides in the 19th century when the shape-shifting monster leaped from poetry to the short story. It happened when this shorter form of literature was morphing into darker shapes thanks in no small part to Edgar Allan Poe, Honoré de Balzac, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Prosper Mérimée, James Hogg, and so many others in Europe and the United States.The fifty year period between 1800 and 1849 is truly the cradle of all werewolf short stories. For the first time in one anthology, Andrew Barger, award winning author of The Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Horror Anthology, has compiled the best werewolf stories from this period.Assorted pre-WW IIJean Richepin - The Were-Wolf: ( Short Stories, June 1898) Bernard Capes - The Sword of Corporal Lacoste: ( From Door to Door, 1900) Horace G. Hutchinson - A Were-Wolf Story: ( The Cornhill Magazine, July 1905) Frank Hepburn Crawford - The Werewolf: ( Hampton's Magazine #1, Jan. 1911) Arthur L. Salmon - The Were-wolf: ( The Ferry Of Souls, 1927) Edgar L. Cooper - The Werewolf's Helmet: (John Long, 1931) Reginald Barker - Werewolf: ( Short Stories, 10 Jan 1934) Howard Wandrei - In The Triangle: ( Weird Tales, Jan 1934) Assorted WerecreaturesH. Wellington Vrooman - The Man-Tiger: ( The Golden Argosy, 29 Dec, 1883: Argosy, Jan. 1897 as The Avenging Tiger) Raymond S. Spears - The Were-Cougar: ( Adventure, 20 Jan 1926) Lyman Bryson - The Were-Tiger: ( Adventure, 1. April 1927) Jon Wynne-Tyson- Mistral ( Twilight Zone, July-August 1983: Karl E. Wagner [ed.], Years Best Horror XII, 1984). |
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Post by dem on Aug 29, 2018 18:23:13 GMT
Pulp thrills! Alonzo Deen Cole - The Werewolf: ( The Witch's Tales promo booklet, 1936). "'The were-wolf shall live again - Ha! Ha! Ha! The were-wolf shall live again! .... He was only a boy of fourteen; and he had lived all his life knowing that his mother, so violently insane she must be kept in chains, uttered no sound but that mad laughter, those dreadful words ..."Rene's father, the Count was gunned down by credulous fools under the ridiculous notion that he was a "werewolf," sending Madame la Comtesse gaga on the spot. Now grown to manhood, Rene falls for sweet Cecile de Varnetot. But, reacting as he does on the night of a full moon, dare he marry her? Read it on: Alonzo Deen Cole blog Yvonne Buchanan: ( Twilight Zone, Nov. 1982). "All this talk about werewolves .... could Jack be trying to tell him something? Roger and Jack have twenty-four hours to write a script for Wilberts new low-budget production. They dismiss a raft of ideas until Roger hits on a sure fire hit - a werewolf movie. The more Roger enthuses, the less comfortable Jack feels. |
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Post by dem on Sept 16, 2018 9:02:59 GMT
John Gregory Betancourt [ed] - The Werewolf Megapack: 22 Classic and Modern Tales of Shape-Shifters! (Wildside Press, 2013) 
Saki - Gabriel-Ernest
John Gregory Betancourt - Sympathy for Wolves
Abraham Merritt - The Drone
Clemence Housman - The Were-Wolf
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro - And Bob's Your Uncle (Martin H. Greenberg & Darrell Schweitzer [eds.], Full City Moon
Rudyard Kipling - The Mark of the Beast
Nina Kiriki Hoffman - Dumpster Diving
Eugene Field - The Werewolf
Guy de Maupassant - The Wolf
Jack Williamson - Wolves of Darkness
P'u Sung-Ling - The Man Who Was Changed into a Crow
Sutherland Menzies - Hugues, the Wer-Wolf
Frederick Marryat - The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains
Saki - The She-Wolf
Joseph Jacobs - Morraha (More Celtic Fairy Tales, 1894).
Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock - The Other Side: A Breton Legend
Sir Gilbert Campbell - The White Wolf of Kostopchin
Alexandre Dumas - The Wolf Leader
Michael McCarty & Terrie Leigh Relf - The Hunter's Moon
G. G. Pendarves - Werewolf of the Sahara
Gary Lovisi - Evil Forces Martin H. Greenberg (ed.) - Werewolves (DAW, 1995)  Les Edwards
Brian Hodge - Extinctions in Paradise
Peter Crowther - Bindlestiff
Barbara Paul - Never Moon a Werewolf
Nina Kiriki Hoffman - Dumpster Diving
Brenda Crank & Scott Nickell - Woofman
Matthew J. Costello - Nick of Time
Bill Crider - The Nighttime Is the Right Time
Wendi Lee & Terry Beatty - Double Identity
Lawrence Schimel - Little Boy Riding Hood
Max Allan Collins - Wolf
Cheri Scotch - Children of the Night
Mike Baker - Bark at the Moon
Hugh B. Cave - Nights in the Mountains of Haiti
J. N. Williamson - The Last Link Between Life and Death
Billie Sue Mosiman - Asleep in the Mist
Norman Partridge - The Pack
Roman A. Ranieri - Waiting for Moonlight
David Niall Wilson - A Taste of Blood and Roses
Tracy Knight - Sand Boils
Richard T. Chizmar & Barry Hoffman - Only the Strong Survive
Mickey Zucker Reichert - The Night of Howling
Gary A. Braunbeck - Some Touch of Pity Blurb: Here is a new anthology of 23 original stories about the third member of the classic horror triumvirate - the werewolf, by today's most imaginative tale-spinners and masters of the genre including Peter Crowther, Brian Hodge, Max Allan Collins, and Mickey Zucker Reichert.[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? We're getting there, albeit as yet minus a crucial contribution from Mr. V. List of contenders has now hit seventy, and rising. Anon (Art Sampler?) - The Horror Man: ( Nightmare #3, Skywald, April 1971). Tracy Collins, star of the monster movies, identities too closely with his lead role in Werewolf of Chicago. Joe Meno - Spring: (Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg, Martin H. Greenberg [eds.], Horrors! 365 Scary Stories , 1998). Madly in lust, Brody and Sheila at last have the cottage to themselves. But Sheila can't get in the mood without some seriously wild foreplay. S. E. Schlosser - Werewolf's Bride: A Michigan Ghost Story: ( Spooky Campfire Tales, Globe Pequot Press, 2007). Werewolf abducts the woman he loves on her wedding day, drags her to his cave. She dies fending off his advances. Unrequitted love, tragedy, insanity, mass catfish aversion - author sure packs plenty into a single page.
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Post by helrunar on Sept 16, 2018 16:47:38 GMT
I'm having another overscheduled weekend and have been watching this cheapo Seventies oddment late at night. Your post made me think you might get a guffaw or a groan out of this clip. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvmOyPyubKgFrom 1974... cheers, H. |
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Post by dem on Mar 5, 2019 20:51:00 GMT
"The three tales that top the list of popularity of WEIRD TALES that have so far been published by the present regime are When The Green Star Waned, by Nictzin Dyalhis; Whispering Tunnels, by Stephen Bagby; and Out of the Long Ago, by Seabury Quinn. The first is a highly rated imaginative tale of warfare between the worlds and the conquest of our planet by evil beings from the dark side of the moon; the second is a tale of medieval devil-worship and encounters with familiars in the tunnels of Verdum after the World War; the third is a werewolf story, a tale of creeping horror, in which a Mohawk Indian fights to the death with a werewolf on a dolmen in Wales" - Farnsworth Wright. ( The Eyrie, Weird Tales, Aug 1925)  Andrew Brosnatch: ( Weird Tales, Jan. 1925). Werewolves - a Tale of Heredity. "Cag na Gith. And a dreary little hole it is. Six or eight sad-looking cottages cling with despondent tenacity to the hillside rising from the shabby little railway station ... Even the loafers at the public house wear an air of settled gloom. The only thing of interest in the neighbourhood is the great dolmen that crowns the tallest hill." Extracts from journal of Prof. Simeon Warrener, concerning the late Morgan Carew's locally unpopular archaeological dig of a cairn in the Welsh hills. The villagers are particularly upset when the team excavate the tomb of an inordinately long, spindly Ancient Briton with the head of a dog. The thing from 'the bug-wolf stone' does for Carew before turning its attentions to Warrener, his young assistant, and Alice Frasanet (token love interest/ "empty-headed" It girl). Unknown to them all, said assistant, Frank Seabring, is of Mohawk blood. His inner bear rises to the occasion.
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Post by andydecker on May 17, 2020 13:52:19 GMT
As I am just reading Roy Thomas' Barbarian Life Vol2: A Literary Biography of Conan the Barbarian, a fun account of how he wrote issues 52 to 100 of Marvel's Conan comic, I looked up my Conan collection. Stumbled upon these two comic magazines on the way. This is one of Marvel UKs b/w reprints in the early 80s, two issues of Werewolf by Night and one Atlas werewolf horror story. This is John Bolton in all his glory, the second Kull comic he did with Doug Moench. The first was a b/w magazine in the Bizarre Adventures line, this a colour special from 1983. |
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Post by cromagnonman on May 17, 2020 16:03:32 GMT
Always lovely seeing that amazing Bolton Kull art, Andy. Thanks.
Seems apposite to use it to make the point that a few years earlier Roy had adapted Howard's "Wolfshead" in the Kull the Conqueror series with art by the Severins.
Marvel made multiple attempts to get a Kull series up and running but somehow it just never caught on. Personally I blame the restrictive nature of the character's kingship status. It limits the scope for storytelling as Howard himself came to realise which is why he only dabbled with it in Conan. Once you've done the assassination, dethroning and foreign wars scenarios there's not a lot else that kings are good for plotwise. But I do like Kull. In very many respects he is Howard himself: the brooding dreamer and enquirer after the infinite.
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