The Werewolf Blood Trail: Tales of Gore, Terror & Hunt

Classic Tales of Lycanthropic Terror, Cursed Bloodlines, and the Human-Beast DivideBy E. F. Benson, Marie de France, Alexandre Dumas Père, George W. M. Reynolds, Eugene Field, Émile Erckmann, Alexandre Chatrian, Rudyard Kipling, Robert E. Howard, Gladys Gordon Trenery, Clifford Ball, Clemence Housman, Caroline Taylor Stewart

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The Werewolf Blood Trail: Tales of Gore, Terror & Hunt traces the werewolf across centuries of literary imagination, from medieval marvel and folklore-inflected romance to Gothic unease, Victorian sensation, imperial adventure, and twentieth-century weird fiction. Its selections range from lyrical and allegorical transformations to brisk pursuit narratives and visceral scenes of predation, demonstrating how lycanthropy has served as a figure for forbidden desire, inherited violence, animality, and social dread. The volume's emphasis on blood, terror, and pursuit gives particular coherence to tales in which the hunt repeatedly reverses the boundary between hunter and hunted. Bringing together Marie de France, Alexandre Dumas Père, George W. M. Reynolds, Émile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian, Rudyard Kipling, Robert E. Howard, and other influential storytellers, the anthology maps a broad transnational genealogy of the monstrous. These writers participate variously in medieval romance, French Romanticism, Gothic and sensation fiction, colonial adventure, and pulp-era horror. Their differing cultural settings reveal the werewolf not as a fixed creature but as a mutable response to changing anxieties about class, gender, empire, wilderness, and the unstable human body. Recommended for students of folklore, Gothic literature, and horror as well as devoted general readers, this collection offers an unusually rich comparative encounter with a durable myth. Its varied forms invite readers to follow recurring motifs across distinct eras while appreciating the productive tensions among terror, sympathy, spectacle, and the ethics of the hunt.

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GenreHorror, Fantasy

Length61 hrs 23 mins

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Publish dateOct 15, 2020

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1Burned Bridges

2The Werewolf Blood Trail: Tales of Gore, Terror & Hunt

3The Lay of the Were-Wolf (Marie de France)

4INTRODUCTION

5INTRODUCTION WHO MOCQUET WAS, AND HOW THIS TALE BECAME KNOWN TO THE NARRATOR

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6CHAPTER I THE GRAND MASTER OF HIS HIGHNESS’ WOLF HOUNDS

7CHAPTER II THE SEIGNEUR JEAN AND THE SABOT-MAKER

8CHAPTER III AGNELETTE

9CHAPTER IV THE BLACK WOLF

10CHAPTER V THE PACT WITH SATAN

11CHAPTER VI THE BEDEVILLED HAIR

12CHAPTER VII THE BOY AT THE MILL

13CHAPTER VIII THIBAULT’S WHISHES

14CHAPTER IX THE WOLF-LEADER

15CHAPTER X MAITRE MAGLOIRE

16CHAPTER XI DAVID AND GOLIATH.

17CHAPTER XII WOLVES IN THE SHEEP FOLD

18CHAPTER XIII WHERE IT IS DEMONSTRATED THAT A WOMAN NEVER SPEAKS MORE ELOQUENTLY THAN WHEN SHE HOLDS HER TONGUE.

19CHAPTER XIV A VILLAGE WEDDING

20CHAPTER XV THE LORD OF VAUPARFOND

21CHAPTER XVI MY LADY’S LADY

22CHAPTER XVII THE BARON DE MONT-GOBERT

23CHAPTER XVIII DEATH AND RESURRECTION

24CHAPTER XIX THE DEAD AND THE LIVING

25CHAPTER XX TRUE TO TRYST

26CHAPTER XXI THE GENIUS OF EVIL

27CHAPTER XXII THIBAULT’S LAST WISH

28CHAPTER XXIII THE ANNIVERSARY

29CHAPTER XXIV HUNTING DOWN THE WERE-WOLF

30Wagner the Wehr-wolf (George W. M. Reynolds)

31PROLOGUE

32PART I

33CHAPTER I. The Death-Bed—The Oath—The Last Injunctions.

34CHAPTER II. Nisida—The Mysterious Closet.

35CHAPTER III. The Manuscript—Flora Francatelli.

36CHAPTER IV. The Funeral—The Interruption Of The Ceremony.

37CHAPTER V. The Reading Of The Will.

38CHAPTER VI. The Pictures—Agnes And The Unknown—Mystery.

39CHAPTER VII. Revelations.

40CHAPTER VIII. The History Of Agnes.

41CHAPTER IX. Conclusion Of The History Of Agnes.

42CHAPTER X. Francisco, Wagner And Nisida.

43CHAPTER XI. Nisida And Wagner—Francisco And Flora—The Approach Of Sunset.

44CHAPTER XII. The Wehr-Wolf.

45CHAPTER XIII. Nisida’s Emotions—The Disguise—The Plot.

46CHAPTER XIV. The Last Meeting Of Agnes And The Stranger Lady.

47CHAPTER XV. The Sbirri—The Arrest.

48CHAPTER XVI. Nisida And The Carmelite Abbess.

49CHAPTER XVII. Wagner In Prison—A Visitor.

50CHAPTER XVIII. Flora Francatelli—The Three Nuns—The Chair.

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