The Mammoth Book of Werewolves
- Publication
- 1994
About the Book
Edited by Stephen Jones. Illustrated by Martin McKenna.
Lycanthropes... Shapechangers... Loups-agrous... Werewolves... Men and women who hide beneath the face of the Beast, and the Beasts who kill with the tortured soul of Man. Tragic creatures condemned through no fault of their own to change during the phases of the full moon and destroy the ones they love. The Mammoth Book of Werewolves brings together twenty-three tales of terror and transformation which will make you howl with delight, from classic pulp novellas like Manly Wade Wellman's 'The Hairy Ones Shall Dance' and 'The Whisperers' by Hugh B. Cave, to such modern masterpieces as David Case's 'The Cell', Clive Barker's 'Twilight at the Towers' and the award-winning 'Boobs' by Suzy McKee Charnas. Also collected together for the first time are memorable stories by such contemporary masters as Ramsey Campbell, Basil Copper, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Karl Edward Wagner, Dennis Etchison, Les Daniels, Stephen Laws and Scott Bradfield, and original fiction from Graham Masterton, Michael Marshall Smith, Mark Morris, Peter Tremayne, Roberta Lannes, Nicholas Royle, Adrian Cole, David Sutton, Brian Mooney, and a major new novella by Kim Newman. So when the wolfbane blooms and the moon is full and bright, get your silver bullets ready as the sign of the pentagram reveals the Beast that lurks within us all...
Contents:
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INTRODUCTION: EVEN A MAN WHO IS PURE IN HEART... by Stephen Jones
- TWILIGHT AT THE TOWERS by Clive Barker
- THE DREAM OF THE WOLF by Scott Bradfield
- NIGHT BEAT by Ramsey Campbell
- THE WEREWOLF by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
- RAIN FALLS by Michael Marshall-Smith
- GUILTY PARTY by Stephen Laws
- ESSENCE OF THE BEAST by Roberta Lannes
- IMMMORTAL by Mark Morris
- CRY WOLF by Basil Copper
- RUG by Graham Masterton
- THE WHISPERERS by Hugh B. Cave
- AND I SHALL GO IN THE DEVIL'S NAME by David Sutton
- THE FOXES OF FASCOUM by Peter Tremayne
- ONE PARIS NIGHT by Karl Edward Wagner
- SOUL OF THE WOLF by Brian Mooney
- THE HAIRY ONES SHALL DANCE by Manly Wade Wellman
- HEART OF THE BEAST by Adrian Cole
- WEREMAN by Les Daniels
- ANYTHING BUT YOUR KIND by Nicholas Royle
- THE NIGHTHAWK by Dennis Etchison
- THE CELL by David Case
- BOOBS by Suzy McKee Charnas
- OUT OF THE NIGHT, WHEN THE FULL MOON IS BRIGHT... by Kim Newman
- BRIGHT OF MOON by Jo Fletcher
