Silver Bullets Classic Werewolf Stories

Of the monsters that stalked the pages of 19th- and early 20th-century fiction, the werewolf has continued to represent the beast lurking underneath the veneer of human civilization to this day, a composite creature which is all too easily released and, once at large, difficult to constrain. From one of the very first werewolf stories appearing in Britain to a tale published after World War I, this collection brings together the greatest werewolf fiction from a period stretching to nearly a century, uniting figures as diverse as Hans Christian Andersen, Rudyard Kipling, and the Suffragette writer Clemence Housman.

Eleanor Dobson is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Birmingham. Along with 19th- and 20th-century literature, material culture and Egyptology, her work investigates the monstrous figures associated with the Gothic mode: vampires, mummies, and werewolves.

Introduction - Eleanor Dobson
The Man-Wolf (1831) - Leitch Ritchie
A Story of a Weir-Wolf (1846) - Catherine Crowe
The Werewolf (1867) - Hans Christian Andersen
The Grey Wolf (1871) - George MacDonald
The White Wolf of Kostopchin (1889) - Gilbert Campbell
The Mark of the Beast (1890) - Rudyard Kipling
The Werewolf (1890)  - Clemence Housman
A Ballad of the Werewolf (1891) - Rosamund Marriott Watson
The Werewolf (1896) - Eugene Field
Where There Is Nothing, There Is God (1896) - William Butler Yeats
The Werewolves (1898) Henry Beaugrand
Gabriel-Ernest (1909) - Saki
The Thing in the Forest (1915) - Bernard Capes
Running Wolf (1920) - Algernon Blackwood