The Foundations of Fiction - Werewolves: Hear the stories that gave birth to the modern genre craze

Written by Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bernard Capes and 4 more

Narrated by Richard Mitchley

A dog may be man’s best friend. It is also one of his worst nightmares. The idea that humans could suddenly present themselves as demonic werewolves can only have come from the deepest, darkest and most diabolical recesses of an author’s mind.

In this volume we present a roll-call of classic authors including Rudyard Kipling, Saki, Arthur Conan Doyle, Catherine Crowe and many others who short story by short story establish the building blocks of this horrific yet thrilling genre. Here all manner of characters and narratives weave together to bring a unique yet intricate account of the beginnings of this most troubling of literary genres.

1 - Foundations of Fiction - Werewolves - An Introduction

2 - Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling

3 - A Pastoral Horror by Arthur Conan Doyle

4 - Tarnhelm or The Death of My Uncle Robert by Hugh Walpole

5 - Gabriel-Ernest by Saki

6 - The She-Wolf by Saki

7 - The Lame Priest by Susan Morrow writing as S Carleton

8 - The Thing in the Forest by Bernard Capes

9 - Vampirismus or Aurelia by E T A Hoffman

10 - A Story of a Weir-Wolf by Catherine Crowe

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Dec 12, 2022
• ISBN: 9781803546162

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling was born in India in 1865. After intermittently moving between India and England during his early life, he settled in the latter in 1889, published his novel The Light That Failed in 1891 and married Caroline (Carrie) Balestier the following year. They returned to her home in Brattleboro, Vermont, where Kipling wrote both The Jungle Book and its sequel, as well as Captains Courageous. He continued to write prolifically and was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 but his later years were darkened by the death of his son John at the Battle of Loos in 1915. He died in 1936.