Mark of the Beast: A Collection of Werewolf Stories

Mark of the Beast: A Collection of Werewolf Stories

Herein are gathered a number of tales portraying the glorious and bestial nature of the werewolf. There are horror, sci-fi, Gothic, cyber, fairy tale and fantasy stories and poems that embrace the essence of the beast, told by an assortment of scribes with diverse styles and voices.

Every civilization has some story or legend of creatures half man and half beast. Indigenous native peoples around the world held beliefs about shamans and witch doctors who could transform themselves into animals. The ancient Egyptians worshiped a whole pantheon of animal-headed gods. The superstitious folk of medieval Europe believed that a witch or a gypsy could curse a man to become a werewolf by night. Pacific islanders told tales of men changing into sharks. Certain African peoples feared leopard men.

Coming from all over the world and from every culture, werebeast legends naturally vary. Among the ways said to become a werewolf include being bitten by a werewolf, being bitten by a normal wolf, a potion or curse from a gypsy or a witch, a family curse, a genetic disorder, drinking rainwater from the paw print of a wolf, wearing an enchanted pelt made from wolfskin, through a pact with Satan or a demon, through the act of cannibalism, etc. Some werewolves have no memory or control over their change while others do. Some change only by the light of a full moon while others can change at any time. Some werewolves look like normal wolves, some look like giant wolves, and still others are mutant man-beasts. Some are solitary and some live and hunt in packs or clans.

Now the Full Harvest Moon is rising and the soft wail of the autumnal wind beginsâ€¦

The contents of this anthology include:

The Wolves Outside the Cage by Abraham Kawa
Thirteen by Alyne de Winter
Best Left Buried by Evan Dicken
The Clothes Maketh by Juliet Boyd
Over Exposure by Jonathan Templar
Into the Moonlight by Donald R. Burleson
Teenage Werewolf by Catharine Clark-Sayles
The Bone Cruncher by Karen Gillard
The Wolfgirl in the Cupboard by Gitte Christensen
Werewolf Root Canal by Lois Gresh
Wolf by Ernest Walwyn
Adjustment by Paul L. Bates
The Vestals by Ann K. Schwader
Malediction of the Moon by T. Fox Dunham
Arcadia by Donald Jacob Uitvlugt
The Better to Type With, My Dear by Megan Engelhardt
Lucy Still Eats Meat by Michael Penkas
At Long Last by Mollie L. Burleson
Happy? by Daryl Wayne
WolfGang by Glynn Barrass
The Hunting of Philip Ackroyd by Josh Reynolds
Her Motherâ€™s Fur by Rebecca L. Brown
Moonburn by Robert M. Price
Against a Sea of Brilliant White by Michael Matheson
Hellhound by Aurelio Rico Lopez III
The Blood of the Moon by Caitlin Walsh
Last Night... by Eric J. Guignard
The Shrieking Shack by Richard L. Tierney
Mr. Lupus by T.E. Grau

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781568820804
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Chaosium Inc.
Manufacturer	Chaosium Inc.
NumberOfPages	332
PublicationDate	2016-03-09
Publisher	Chaosium Inc.
ReleaseDate	2016-03-09
Studio	Chaosium Inc.

Mark of the Beast: A Collection of Werewolf Stories

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