Blood of the Wolf

by Jeffrey Goddin

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0843925582
• ISBN13: 9780843925586
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Banner of Truth
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Blood of the Wolf--amazing

I love werewolves, but I've always been disappointed in novel-length werewolf fiction, 'cause nobody seemed to get the real weirdness,the sex and death and transformational dreams mystique of the whole thing--then I read BLOOD OF THE WOLF. What is is like to be able to change shapes into something dark, dangerous and powerful? This book makes you live it. BLOOD OF THE WOLF is a smooth, weird nightmare. The characters are actually interesting--not the neurotics and yuppies of the usual modern horror fare. These are cool, tortured, original people you care about. The setting is amazingly real (I used to live in the Louisville area) and the plot is complicated enough to keep you guessing and keep you reading (it even has a mental institution) and there's a dark eroticism to some of the scenes that makes them linger in memory long after you've read them. The guy who wrote a negative review of this novel must be a suit--or an english teacher--I can't believe BLOOD OF THE WOLF is still out of print. BLOOD OF THE WOLF is among the 10 best horror novels I've ever read, and I've read 'em all. It's the king of werewolf novels.

YOUR blood will run cold

One of the best werewolf novels ever committed to paper. Forget all the werewolf movies you've seen, this is the mother load! This tale offers you more in terms of story, action, myth, science and blood. It takes you places no one has ever gone before in the werewolf genre. Begin with a pair of werewolves running through a zoo, late at night, the leader guided by an irresistible urge. The path leads them to the wolf habitat, where a bizarre mating occurs.Naturally, the unexpected pregnancy leads the chief zoologist to question the "immaculate" conception, though she studies the cub with a nurturing eye. However, in the span of few weeks, the seed of the werewolf grows at an accelerated rate. Restlessness ensues and when Cub is introduced to the other wolves of the habitat, disaster occurs. Once Cub is given his first taste of human blood, Jeffrey Goddin creates a first in the werewolf mythos; a wolf able to turn into a human, better known in the medieval horror realms as a wolfwere.As the body count rises, the werewolves are now faced with the dilemma of having to stop a force so insanely similar and as unnatural as themselves. If they do not, retribution within their werewolf community will tear them apart. Of course, Cub is not the only half-breed prowling the streets.This is the novel that started me to read as a recreational hobby, back when I was only ten years old. The novel holds a special place in my heart, obviously, but Mr. Goddin's mastery of plot, subplot, character development, description and tone are unrivaled in the horror community. Since my first reading, I have searched for other horror novels that could match the world Mr. Goddin created. They have all failed. Anne Rice, Stephen King, Clive Barker, Brian Lumley, even Bram Stoker and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley cannot match his ability to capture the imagination as masterfully as he has in this novel. Jeffrey Goddin is the reason "injustice" is a very real word; Blood of the Wolf surpasses the best efforts of the most well known horror writers.He truly reached the pinnacle of modern/gothic horror writing with this novel. That it is available only in "Out of Print" status proves that publishers rarely read the material they print and that horror film producers do not read horror novels. It's worth the search to find this book.