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
Length61h 23m
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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
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 15, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
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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