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  Table of Contents

  Acknowledgments

  Introduction: Even a Man Who is Pure in Heart . . .

  Twilight at the Towers CLIVE BARKER

  The Dream of the Wolf SCOTT BRADFIELD

  Night Beat RAMSEY CAMPBELL

  The Werewolf R. CHETWYND-HAYES

  Rain Falls MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH

  Guilty Party STEPHEN LAWS

  Essence of the Beast ROBERTA LANNES

  Immortal MARK MORRIS

  Cry Wolf BASIL COPPER

  Rug GRAHAM MASTERTON

  The Whisperers HUGH B. CAVE

  And I Shall Go in the Devil’s Name DAVID SUTTON

  The Foxes of Fascoum PETER TREMAYNE

  One Paris Night KARL EDWARD WAGNER

  Soul of the Wolf BRIAN MOONEY

  The Hairy Ones Shall Dance MANLY WADE WELLMAN

  Heart of the Beast ADRIAN COLE

  Wereman LES DANIELS

  Anything But Your Kind NICHOLAS ROYLE

  The Nighthawk DENNIS ETCHISON

  The Cell DAVID CASE

  Boobs SUZY McKEE CHARNAS

  Only the End of the World Again NEIL GAIMAN

  Out of the Night, When the Full Moon is Bright . . . KIM NEWMAN

  Bright of Moon JO FLETCHER

  STEPHEN JONES lives in London, England. He is the winner of three World Fantasy Awards, four Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Awards and three International Horror Guild Awards as well as being an eighteen-time recipient of the British Fantasy Award and a Hugo Award nominee. A former television producer/director and genre movie publicist and consultant (the first three Hellraiser movies, Night Life, Nightbreed, Split Second, Mind Ripper, Last Gasp etc.), he is the co-editor of Horror: 100 Best Books, Horror: Another 100 Best Books, The Best Horror from Fantasy Tales, Gaslight & Ghosts, Now We Are Sick, H.P. Lovecraft’s Book of Horror, The Anthology of Fantasy & the Supernatural, Secret City: Strange Tales of London, Great Ghost Stories, Tales to Freeze the Blood: More Great Ghost Stories and the Dark Terrors, Dark Voices and Fantasy Tales series. He has written Coraline: A Visual Companion, Stardust: The Visual Companion, Creepshows: The Illustrated Stephen King Movie Guide, The Essential Monster Movie Guide, The Illustrated Vampire Movie Guide, The Illustrated Dinosaur Movie Guide, The Illustrated Frankenstein Movie Guide and The Illustrated Werewolf Movie Guide, and compiled The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror series, The Mammoth Book of Terror, The Mammoth Book of Vampires, The Mammoth Book of Zombies, The Mammoth Book of Werewolves, The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein, The Mammoth Book of Dracula, The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories By Women, The Mammoth Book of New Terror, The Mammoth Book of Monsters, Shadows Over Innsmouth, Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth, Dark Detectives, Dancing with the Dark, Dark of the Night, White of the Moon, Keep Out the Night, By Moonlight Only, Don’t Turn Out the Light, H.P. Lovecraft’s Book of the Supernatural, Travellers in Darkness, Summer Chills, Exorcisms and Ecstasies by Karl Edward Wagner, The Vampire Stories of R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Phantoms and Fiends and Frights and Fancies by R. Chetwynd-Hayes, James Herbert: By Horror Haunted, Basil Copper: A Life in Books, Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft, The Complete Chronicles of Conan by Robert E. Howard, The Emperor of Dreams: The Lost Worlds of Clark Ashton Smith, Sea-Kings of Mars and Otherworldly Stories by Leigh Brackett, The Mark of the Beast and Other Fantastical Tales by Rudyard Kipling, Clive Barker’s A-Z of Horror, Clive Barker’s Shadows in Eden, Clive Barker’s The Nightbreed Chronicles and the Hellraiser Chronicles. He was a Guest of Honour at the 2002 World Fantasy Convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the 2004 World Horror Convention in Phoenix, Arizona. You can visit his website at www.stephenjoneseditor.com.

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  CONTENTS

  Acknowledgments

  Introduction: Even a Man Who is Pure in Heart . . .

  Twilight at the Towers

  CLIVE BARKER

  The Dream of the Wolf

  SCOTT BRADFIELD

  Night Beat

  RAMSEY CAMPBELL

  The Werewolf

  R. CHETWYND-HAYES

  Rain Falls

  MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH

  Guilty Party

  STEPHEN LAWS

  Essence of the Beast

  ROBERTA LANNES

  Immortal

  MARK MORRIS

  Cry Wolf

  BASIL COPPER

  Rug

  GRAHAM MASTERTON

  The Whisperers

  HUGH B. CAVE

  And I Shall Go in the Devil’s Name

  DAVID SUTTON

  The Foxes of Fascoum

  PETER TREMAYNE

  One Paris Night

  KARL EDWARD WAGNER

  Soul of the Wolf

  BRIAN MOONEY

  The Hairy Ones Shall Dance

  MANLY WADE WELLMAN

  Heart of the Beast

  ADRIAN COLE

  Wereman

  LES DANIELS

  Anything But Your Kind

  NICHOLAS ROYLE

  The Nighthawk

  DENNIS ETCHISON

  The Cell

  DAVID CASE

  Boobs

  SUZY McKEE CHARNAS

  Only the End of the World Again

  NEIL GAIMAN

  Out of the Night, When the Full Moon is Bright . . .

  KIM NEWMAN

  Bright of Moon

  JO FLETCHER

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  My thanks to Neil Gaiman, Jo Fletcher, Kim Newman, Brian Mooney, David Pringle, Dorothy Lumley and Pete Duncan for their help and advice.

  “Introduction: Even a Man Who is Pure in Heart . . .” copyright © Stephen Jones 1994, 2009.

  “Twilight at the Towers” copyright © Clive Barker 1985. Originally published in Books of Blood Volume 6. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “The Dream of the Wolf” copyright © Scott Bradfield 1984. Originally published in Interzone 10, Winter 1984/85. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “Night Beat” copyright © Ramsey Campbell 1973. Originally published in The Haunt of Horror, No. 1, June 1973. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “The Werewolf” copyright © R. Chetwynd-Hayes 1975. Originally published in The 4th Armada Monster Book (as by Angus Campbell). Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “Rain Falls” copyright © Michael Marshall Smith 1994.

  “Guilty Party” copyright © Stephen Laws 1988. Originally published in Fear No. 2, September-October 1988. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “Essence of the Beast” copyright © Roberta Lannes 1994.

  “Immortal” copyright © Mark Morris 1994.

  “Cry Wolf” copyright © Basil Copper 1974. Originally published in Vampires, Werewolves & Others. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “Rug” copyright © Graham Masterton 1994.

  “The Whisperers” copyright © Hugh B. Cave 1994. Originally published in slightly different form in Spicy Mystery Stories, April 1942. Copyright © Carcosa 1977. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author’s agent.

  “And I Shall Go in the Devil’s Name” copyright © David Sutton 1994.

  “The Foxes of Fascoum” copyright © Peter Tremayne 1994.

  “One Paris Night” copyright © Karl Edward Wagner 1992. Originally published in Grails: Quests, Visitations and Other Occurrences. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “Soul of the Wolf” copyright © Brian Mooney 1994.

  “The Hairy Ones Shall Dance” by Manly Wade Wellman copyright © the Popular Fiction Publishing Company 1938. Originally published in Weird Tales, January, February and March, 1938. Reprinted by permission of the author’s executor, David Drake.

  “Heart of the Beast” copyright © Adrian Cole 1994.

  “Wereman” copyright © Les Daniels 1990. Originally published as “By the Light of the Silvery Moon” in Borderlands. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “Anything But Your Kind” copyright © Nicholas Royle 1994.

  “The Nighthawk” copyright © Dennis Etchison 1982. Originally published in slightly different form in Shadows. Copyright © Charles L. Grant 1978. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “The Cell” copyright © David Case 1969. Originally published in The Cell (and Other Stories). Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “Boobs” copyright © Suzy McKee Charnas 1989, 1990. Originally published in slightly different form in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Vol. 13, No. 7, July 1989. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “Only the End of the World Again” copyright © Neil Gaiman 1994. Originally published in Shadows Over Innsmouth. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  “Out of the Night, When the Full Moon is Bright . . .” copyright © Kim Newman 1994.

  “Bright of Moon” copyright © Jo Fletcher 1994.

  For Mike and Jan who,

  I hope, will never change . . .

  Introduction

  EVEN A MAN WHO IS PURE IN HEART . . .

  Lycanthropes . . . Shapechangers . . . Loups-Garous . . . Werewolves . . . the men (and sometimes women) who hide beneath the mask of the Beast, and the Beasts who kill with the tortured soul of Man. Of all horror’s pantheon of great monsters (the vampire, the zombie, the Frankenstein creature), the werewolf is perhaps the most tragic. Condemned (usually through no fault of their own) to metamorphose during the phases of the full moon into bestial killers who destroy the ones they love, werewolves exemplify the classic dichotomy of Good versus Evil which, since the publication of Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde in 1886, lies at the core of most great modern horror fiction.

  Like its stablemate, the vampire, the werewolf has also been successfully adapted into numerous novel-length works: from such classics as Jessie Douglas Kerruish’s The Undying Monster (1922), Guy Endore’s The Werewolf of Paris (1933), Jack Williamson’s Darker Than You Think (1948), Whitley Strieber’s The Wolfen (1978) and Stephen King’s Cycle of the Werewolf (1985), to more recent incarnations like Brian Stableford’s Werewolves of London (1990), Michael Cadnum’s Saint Peter’s Wolf (1991), Alice Borchardt’s The Silver Wolf (1998), Kelly Armstrong’s Bitten (2001) and Carrie Vaughn’s werewolf romance Kitty and the Midnight Hour (2005) and its popular sequels.

  The movies were also not slow to capitalize upon the public’s fascination with shapechangers, and among the earliest versions of the myth are the 1913 Canadian two-reeler The Werewolf (loosely based on Henry Beaugrand’s story “The Werewolves�
��) and the silent French feature Le Loup-Garou (1923).

  Hollywood finally got into the act with The Werewolf of London (1935), which utilised Oliver Onions’ 1929 story “The Master of the House” and starred Henry Hull as the cursed scientist. Six years later the same studio, Universal, introduced Lon Chaney Jr’s doomed Lawrence Talbot in The Wolf Man (1941), and the character went on to meet Frankenstein, Dracula, and various mad doctors, before ending up as a foil for the comedy duo Abbott and Costello at the decade’s end. Far more interesting during this period were producer Val Lewton’s low-budget classics, The Cat People (1942) and its semi-sequel, The Curse of the Cat People (1944), which explored their own implied brand of lycanthropy.

  Over the years cinema audiences have been subjected to countless variations on the theme, including The Undying Monster (1942, adapted from Jessie Douglas Kerruish’s 1922 novel), I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957), Werewolf in a Girls’ Dormitory (1961), The Curse of the Werewolf (1961, based on Endore’s book), Werewolves on Wheels (1971), The Werewolf of Washington (1973), Legend of the Werewolf (1974), The Howling (1980, from the novel by Gary Brander) and its various direct-to-video sequels, An American Werewolf in London (1981), The Wolfen (1981), Silver Bullet (1985), Teen Wolf (1985) and Wolf (1994), right up to more recent entries in the genre such as Ginger Snaps (2000) and its sequels, Dog Soldiers (2001), the Underworld (2003) series, Wes Craven’s Cursed (2005) and Universal’s remake of The Wolf Man (2009) starring Benicio Del Toro and Anthony Hopkins.

  As always, it is in the literature of short fiction where the werewolf has flourished. However, unlike my previous Mammoth anthologies (Terror, Vampires and Zombies), this volume marks something of a departure from my usual criteria of presenting a mixture of favourite reprints and newer stories, with a greater emphasis this time on original tales. You will still discover classic novellas from the pulp era like Manly Wade Wellman’s “The Hairy Ones Shall Dance” and “The Whisperers” by Hugh B. Cave along with such modern masterpieces as David Case’s “The Cell”, Clive Barker’s “Twilight at the Towers”, the award-winning “Boobs” by Suzy McKee Charnas and, new to this printing, Neil Gaiman’s revisionist reworking of the original Wolf Man, Lawrence Talbot, as a private detective battling Lovecraftian Deep Ones in “Only the End of the World Again”.