A BRIEF HISTORY OF VAMPIRES & WEREWOLVES IN IRELAND & THE UNITED KINGDOM (AND SOME OF EUROPE) on BOOK RIOT

Annika Barranti Klein has recently given a good overview article on Book Riot regarding the history of werewolves and vampires in the UK and Ireland.  https://bookriot.com/history-of-vampires-and-werewolves-in-ireland-and-the-uk/ It is apparent she has conducted her research (IMHO) as she refers to the book I edited and annotated: The Best Werewolf Short Stories 1800-1849. 

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 has compiled the best werewolf stories from this period. The stories are "Hugues the Wer-Wolf: A Kentish Legend of the Middle Ages," "The Man-Wolf," "A Story of a Weir-Wolf," "The Wehr-Wolf: A Legend of the Limousin," and "The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains." It is believed that two of these fine stories have never been republished in over one hundred and fifty years since the original printing. Read the scary short stories of "The Best Werewolf Short Stories 1800-1849" tonight, just make sure it is not by the light of a full moon!"

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My Classic Werewolf Anthology of Scary Short Stories is Available for the First Time in Hardcover

Just in time for Halloween, The Best Werewolf Short Stories 1800-1850 is now available in hardcover. You buy it on Amazon for $18 with free Prime shipping. https://amzn.to/3EpjN3B

Transformation of the werewolf in literature made its greatest strides in the 19th century when the shape-shifting monster leapt 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 has compiled the best werewolf stories from this period. https://www.andrewbarger.com/index.html

The stories are "Hugues the Wer-Wolf: A Kentish Legend of the Middle Ages," "The Man-Wolf," "A Story of a Weir-Wolf," "The Wehr-Wolf: A Legend of the Limousin," and "The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains." It is believed that two of these fine stories have never been republished in over one hundred and fifty years since their original printing. Read "The Best Werewolf Short Stories 1800-1849" tonight, just make sure it is not by the light of a full moon!"

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Who Was the First Female to Write a Werewolf Short Story?

Who was the first female to write a werewolf short story in the English language? In researching my anthology Shifters: The Best Werewolf Short Stories 1800-1849 I uncovered a tale by Catherine Crowe (1790-1872). She called it "A Story of a Weir-Wolf" and published it in 1846. Despite the rather boring title, its a fine lycan tale that is scary at times. At first she appears to be the first woman to write a werewolf story in the English language, but them I remembered that "Hugues the Wer-Wolf: A Kentish Legend of the Middle Ages" was attributed to Sutherland Menzies (1806-1883). That tale was published eight years before Crowe's story. There are some who believe Menzies was a pen-name for Mrs. Elizabeth Stone. If so, she was the first woman to pen a lycan story.

Best Werewolf Stories 1800-1849 Book eBook Price Drop

I've been feeling beastly as of late and as a result I've decided to drop the price of The Best Werewolf Short Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Werewolf Anthology to $.99. Buy this transformation of the werewolf book for a buck while you can. I hope you enjoy it!