The Wolf-Leader

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 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

Bodies torn apart in the woods of a quiet American town, and a doctor who starts to suspect his neighbor. A 1924 werewolf mystery that has been almost forgotten.

Harper Williams

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