Winter Wolves

By Earle Wescott

Book Overview

When hard-boiled reporter Fran Thomas returns home to escape the misery of a failed marriage and a stalled career, awaiting him is not the comforts of home but nightmare visions and gripping terror. Chilling . . . gripping . . . unsettling.--Booklist.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553279238
• ISBN13: 9780553279238
• Release Date: February 1989
• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Neglected modern horror classic

It takes a degree of "chutzpah "for a debuting horror novelist to set his work in Maine-deep in the heart of King country- but Westcott does a brillliant job in this book which sadly has been neglected since its 1989 publication.Its title tells you the chief components --a bone freezing Maine winter stalked by ferocious wolves.The wolves appear to be phantoms-hell bent on murder and mutilation .It soon becomes clear that the attacks are not random as the author reveals the history of the relationship between man and wolves in the area .It is a history of annual culls and it soons unfolds that these animals are targetting the descendants of those most heavily involved in the blood letting of the past.The book is about retribution but ,uniquely ,it is not the retribution meted out by humans or the ghosts of humans but the animal kingdom which strikes back .The book will satisfy those looking for conventional genre thrills -it has pace ,action and momentum .The writing is crisp and powerful .It is more than a straight ,competent piece of genre writing but has wider appeal and even those who normally avoid the genre are advised to track this book downIt merits a re-issue

Animalistic twist on the traditional Ghost Story

Wescott takes the traditional American ghost story and adds the twist of the ghosts being a pack of wolves wrongfully slaughtered. The book moves fast, however the chracters could use some more development. A surprise ending awaits.