Clawing its way to bookshelves this September, an American folk-horror classic that embodies the savagery and pathos of the werewolf. The novella that inspired H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Dunwich Horror”!
THE THING IN THE WOODS, by HARPER WILLIAMS, is a powerful story of sin, science, and the supernatural. Written by the author of THE VELVETEEN RABBIT (which was published under the author’s real name, Margery Williams Bianco), this obscure classic of werewolf literature is also a treasury of legend and lore by a woman whose contribution to the horror genre has too long been ignored.
A small village doctor races to discover who—or what—is murdering the locals. Is it a werewolf, as neighbors suspect, a savage ghost, or a madman? A shocking battle between science and the supernatural is waged amidst small town prejudice and cruelty as he fights to save the woman he loves…and his very soul.
Edited and introduced by supernatural fiction critic WILLIAM SIMMONS, this special edition of THE THING IN THE WOODS features the supplements “Folklore Relating to Were-Wolves”, from The Book of Werewolves, by S. Baring-Gould, and “A Werewolf’s Revenge”, a rare short story by paranormal researcher Elliott O’Donnell. Shed your skin and free your inhibitions with the greatest lycanthrope story you’ve never read!
An unforgettable werewolf experience awaits weird fiction enthusiasts in the second volume of Shadow House Publishing’s HORROR HALL OF FAME NOVELLAS.
Available as a kindle e-book and trade paperback this September at Amazon.
