The Thing in the Woods

An old shepherd trades his soul for youth and wealth, but the bargain turns him into a wolf on the last day of every month. Published in 1847, this serial is one of the first werewolf novels in English.

George W. M. Reynolds

A beautiful stranger in white furs arrives at a snowbound farmhouse, and only one brother suspects what she is. A short Victorian classic with the original illustrations by Laurence Housman.

Clemence Housman

A poor shoemaker makes a pact with a black wolf that grants his wishes, one red hair at a time. Dumas turns a folk legend from his childhood forest into a dark fairy tale.

Alexandre Dumas

A family curse in the Black Forest drives a count to hunt by night in the title novella, followed by more tales of the uncanny. A 19th-century werewolf story steeped in European folklore.

Erckmann-Chatrian

A spirit seance goes wrong and an ancient werewolf curse returns to a modern American town. Pulp horror serialized in Weird Tales in 1938, fast and full of atmosphere.

Manly Wade Wellman