# Recommend me some Werewolf Fiction. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 10, 2010, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-werewolf-fiction/556702 "2010-10-10T18:22:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Walker\_in\_Eternity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walker\_in\_Eternity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walker_in_Eternity)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2010, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-werewolf-fiction/556702/1 "2010-10-10T18:22:37Z")
For the record I’m 40, so no Twilight or similar please. I am a horror fiction fan looking for something new to read ( and I’ve had a few to drink so please excuse the typos). I prefer werewolves to vampires so please recommend something to read. Thanks. a slightly inebriated. Walker ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2010, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-werewolf-fiction/556702/2 "2010-10-10T19:13:36Z")
[Wolf’s Hour](http://www.amazon.com/Wolfs-Hour-Robert-McCammon/dp/1596063157/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1286738001&sr=8-1) Surely, there are cheaper versions out there? Heh 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2010, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-werewolf-fiction/556702/3 "2010-10-10T19:50:20Z")
It’s out of print, but Jeffrey Sackett’s MARK OF THE WEREWOLF. Zoaraster (sp?) and Claudia Procula Pilate are characters. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2010, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-werewolf-fiction/556702/4 "2010-10-10T21:39:22Z")
[The Werewolf of Paris](http://www.amazon.com/Werewolf-Paris-Guy-Endore/dp/0806512873) by Guy Endore ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2010, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-werewolf-fiction/556702/5 "2010-10-10T22:37:06Z")
Robert Stallman wrote an excellent werewolf trilogy back around 1980: _The Orphan_, _The Captive_, and _The Beast_. Unfortunately all three have long been out of print so you’ll have to look around for used copies. ---
**Author:** ![Walker\_in\_Eternity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walker\_in\_Eternity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walker_in_Eternity)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-werewolf-fiction/556702/6 "2010-10-11T09:26:10Z")
Sadly it seems that all of the good werewolf fiction is out of print. I will keep searching for cheap secondhand copies. Thanks for the suggestions so far, please keep them coming. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-werewolf-fiction/556702/7 "2010-10-11T09:44:24Z")
George R.R. Martin wrote a fine werewolf novella by the name of “The Skin Trade” (get it?). You can find it in his recent anthology \*Dreamsongs \*- Volume 2, I think. Both volumes are etremely worth buying. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-werewolf-fiction/556702/8 "2010-10-11T15:40:05Z")
[Surviving Frank](http://www.amazon.com/Surviving-Frank-David-Page/dp/1440166129/). It’s a buddy cop/mystery thriller, except one of the cops is a werewolf. Here’s the Amazon description: > [@](#): > > Frank was famous for his investigative skills, his unorthodox techniques, and the fact that he was a werewolf. Ryan was human, promoted to detective by Internal Affairs. His first assignment; to investigate Frank. Posing as the werewolf’s new partner, wrestling with guilt and insecurities, he assists Frank in a murder investigation while gathering evidence against him. As they search for answers, they discover that the governor is the next target in a string of murders. With the politics of Boston hanging in the balance, the partners must tolerate one another long enough to find the killer before he strikes again. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-werewolf-fiction/556702/9 "2010-10-11T15:44:22Z")
Patricia Briggs writes a series that has werewolves, vampires, and other supernatural critters, with the central character being a skinwalker…a woman who shifts shape to a coyote. She was raised with werewolves, and understands them as well as any non-werewolf can. Shifters are different than weres, though, as they have their roots in the New World and weres originated in the Old World. It’s a current series, up to about number 6, and it’s the Mercy Thompson series. I think the first one is _Moon Called_. Briggs has several other books out, and I’ve never been disappointed in any of them. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-werewolf-fiction/556702/10 "2010-10-11T16:50:40Z")
Donna Boyd wrote two – _The Passion_ and _The Promise_. The books have a love story but they’re not overly romantic, and present a somewhat realistic picture of werewolves surviving and thriving in human society. Cheri Scotch’s werewolf books are pretty good. Not werewolves, but damn good – _Wolfen_ by Whitley Strieber (written before he was alien-probed). Also not werewolves (shape-changers) – _Darker Than You Think_ by Jack Williamson. He makes shape-changing very alluring, you can feel the sense of power. ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-werewolf-fiction/556702/11 "2010-10-11T17:49:35Z")
Anthony Boucher, “The Compleat Werewolf” Jack Williamson, _Darker Than You Think_ The _Night Watch_ series by Sergei Lukyanenko has several secondary characters that are were-critters. It’s not focused on werewolves, but is definitely worth reading. ETA: That’s what I get for not refreshing the screen before posting… ETA again: H. Warner Munn also did a series of werewolf stories. I’ve only read _The Werewolf of Ponkert_, and thought it was pretty meh. And I assume you already looked in Wikipedia? > **[Werewolf fiction](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werewolf_fiction)** > > Werewolf fiction denotes the portrayal of werewolves and other shapeshifting therianthropes, in the media of literature, drama, film, games and music. Werewolf literature includes folklore, legend, saga, fairy tales, Gothic and horror fiction, fantasy fiction and poetry. Such stories may be supernatural, symbolic or allegorical. A classic American cinematic example of the theme is The Wolf Man (1941) which in later films joins with the Frankenstein Monster and Count Dracula as one of the three fa... ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-werewolf-fiction/556702/12 "2010-10-11T18:42:15Z")
In a slightly less serious note - have you read the Diskworld books? A werewolf character appears prominently in several of them; _the Fifth Elephant_ in particular meets every definition of a werewolf novel. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-werewolf-fiction/556702/13 "2010-10-11T19:32:24Z")
Most of the books I can recommend aren’t really in the “horror” genre. Urban fantasy has a ton of werewolves and some authors that are pretty good are Ilona Andrews, Patricia Briggs (Mercy Thompson, not the other series), and Carrie Vaughn, though all of these fall prey to the romanticization of werethings. Maybe check out Benighted by Kit Whitfield. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-werewolf-fiction/556702/14 "2010-10-13T22:03:53Z")
James Blish’s novella “There Shall be no Darkness.” Poul Anderson’s novels \*Operation Chaos \*and \*Operation Luna \*have a good werewolf as the hero. Anthony Boucher’s novella “The Compleat Werewolf”. If this doesn’t make you laugh, O Walker in Eternity, I would question whether you have a sense of humor. ---
**Author:** ![Ronald\_C.Semone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Ronald\_C.Semone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_C.Semone)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-werewolf-fiction/556702/15 "2010-10-13T23:28:56Z")
> [@detop](#): > > [The Werewolf of Paris](http://www.amazon.com/Werewolf-Paris-Guy-Endore/dp/0806512873) by Guy Endore Detop beat me to it. I highly recommend this novel. I read it 60 years ago and have never forgotten it. (There are also a couple of scenes in the book that a 14-year old boy found quite sexy.) ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-werewolf-fiction/556702/16 "2010-10-14T00:25:29Z")
_The Talisman_ by Stephen King and Peter Straub has werewolves in it. King also wrote _Cycle of the Werewolf_, an illustrated short novel that was adapted into the movie _Silver Bullet_. ---
**Author:** ![ryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@ryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryan)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-werewolf-fiction/556702/17 "2010-10-14T04:00:05Z")
Frostbite:A Werewolf Tale by David Wellington ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-werewolf-fiction/556702/18 "2010-10-14T13:01:47Z")
Is _Moondance_ by the impossibly multi-talented\* S P Somtow really “The Great American Werewolf Novel”? Pretty bloody–but you know how werewolves are! - Also known as[Somtow Sucharitkul](http://www.somtow.org/), artistic director of the Bangkok Opera & composer of \* The Silent Prince\*, a “Bollywood Opera” opening here in Houston this Friday!