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    The Werewolf: Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection
    The Werewolf: Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection
    The Werewolf: Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection
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    The Werewolf: Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection

    By Eugene Field and Varla Ventura

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    In the dark of the night, in the deep of the woods, there dwells a creature that is neither man nor beast. Considered by some to be supernatural, many would call his plight a curse. The curse of the werewolf. Hunted, feared, and deified this snarling being is the stuff legends are made of. This classic tale of terror from noted children's author Eugene Field will have you howling at the moon!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Wheel Weiser
    Release dateOct 15, 2011
    ISBN9781619400023
    The Werewolf: Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection
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    Eugene Field

    Eugene Field (1850-1895) was a noted author best known for his fairy tales and nursery rhymes. Many of his children's poems were illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. Also an American journalist and humorous essay writer, Field was lost to the world at the young age of 45 when he died of a heart attack.

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      The Werewolf - Eugene Field

      The Werewolf

      Eugene Field

      Varla Ventura

      Magical Creatures

      A Weiser Books Collection

      This ebook edition first published in 2011 by Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC.

      With offices at:

      665 Third Street, Suite. 400

      San Francisco, CA 94107

      www.redwheelweiser.com

      Copyright © 2011 by Red Wheel/Weiser LLC. All rights reserved.

      Excerpted from The Second Book of Tales by Eugene Field. Scribner and Sons: New York, 1911

      eISBN: 978-1-61940-002-3

      Cover design by Jim Warner

      Cover photograph © Nodff

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      What Big Eyes You Have

      Eugene Field was perhaps best known for his delightful stories, lullabies, and nursery rhymes for children. His work was so popular in its day that the great painter Maxfield Parrish illustrated several of the storybooks. But one of his lesser-known and far more sinister works is this short story, The Werewolf. A tangled tale of love and viciousness, jealousy and curses, the author's command of the written word comes across heart-wrenchingly throughout. When I read the following passage I had the vision of one of the most disturbing and beautiful places

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