<p><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">This classic werewolf anthology was picked as a&nbsp;</span><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Gothic Book Club Award Winner</strong><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">. In general, transformation of the werewolf in literature made its greatest strides in the 19th century when the shape-shifting monster leaped from poetry to the short story. It happened when this shorter form of literature was morphing into darker shapes thanks in no small part to Edgar Allan Poe, Honoré de Balzac, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Prosper Mérimée, James Hogg, and so many others in Europe and the United States.The fifty year period between 1800 and 1849 is truly the cradle of all werewolf short stories.&nbsp;For the first time in one anthology, Andrew Barger, award winning author of&nbsp;</span><em style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Coffee with Poe: A Novel of Edgar Allan Poe's Life</em><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">&nbsp;and&nbsp;</span><em style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">The Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Horror Anthology</em><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">, has compiled the best werewolf stories from this period.</span></p><p><br></p><ul><li>1831<strong>The Man-Wolf</strong>&nbsp;by&nbsp;Leitch Ritche (1800-1865)</li><li>1846&nbsp;<strong>A Story of a Weir-Wolf</strong>&nbsp;by Catherine Crowe (1790-1872)</li><li>1828&nbsp;<strong>The Wehr-Wolf: A Legend of the Limousin&nbsp;</strong>by Richard Thomson (1794-1865)</li><li>1839&nbsp;<strong>The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains</strong>&nbsp;by Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848)</li><li>1838&nbsp;<strong>Hugues the Wer-Wolf: A Kentish Legend of the Middle Ages</strong>&nbsp;by&nbsp;Sutherland&nbsp;Menzies [Mrs. Elizabeth Stone] (1806-1883)</li></ul><p><br></p>