The Were-Wolf — ISFDB Explorer

First published	December 1890
Type	Short Fiction
Length	Novelette

Synopsis

Housman's "extended prose-poem The Were-wolf (1896) is a symbolic erotic fantasy in which two brothers disagree about a Femme Fatale; the one who thinks her Evil pursues her to a climactic meeting where their fates are decided. It is among the most notable products of the short-lived English Decadent Movement (Decadence)." -- SFE: Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), entry by BS (Brian M Stableford?)

Notes

Published December 1890 in Atalanta 4.39, p132-(155?), illustrated by Everard Hopkins --Fiction Magazines Index ~fmi/t/t842.htm#A15045
15,281 words
Clute/Grant calls this an extended prose poem FictionMags lists it as a novelette

External Links

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Publications (31)

Date	Publication	Publisher	Type	Page
December 1890	Atalanta, December 1890	Trischler and Co.	MAGAZINE	132
1896	The Were-Wolf	John Lane, The Bodley Head	Chapbook
1899	Famous Weird Tales	Isaac H. Blanchard	Anthology	137
1899	Famous Weird Tales	International Book & Publishing Co.	Anthology
1902	Classic Library of Famous Literature: Vol. 5, Weird Tales	The Bodleian Society	Anthology	137
April 1968	Masters of Horror	Berkley Medallion	Anthology	13
1973	Book of the Werewolf	Sphere	Anthology	117
December 1976	The Were-Wolf	Arno Press	Chapbook
February 1979	Classic Horror Omnibus Volume I	New English Library	Omnibus	209
March 1979	Werewolf!	Arbor House	Anthology	5
November 1979	Werewolf!	Arbor House / SFBC	Anthology
March 1980	Werewolf!	Perennial Library / Harper & Row	Anthology	5
January 1986	Barbarians	Signet / New American Library	Anthology	184
January 1995	Angels of Darkness: Tales of Troubled and Troubling Women	GuildAmerica Books / SFBC	Anthology	242
October 2002	The Literary Werewolf	Syracuse University Press	Anthology	20
August 2004	The Were-Wolf	Project Gutenberg	Chapbook
July 2005	Seekers of Dreams: Masterpieces of Fantasy	Cold Spring Press	Anthology	205
March 2010	The Were-Wolf		Chapbook
October 2010	Wulf: Tales of Wolves and Werewolves	Coachwhip Publications	Anthology
October 2012	Terrifying Transformations: An Anthology of Victorian Werewolf Fiction, 1838-1896	Valancourt Books	Anthology
2013	Tooth and Claw: Classic Tales of Vampires and Werewolves	Sam Teddy Publishing	Anthology	147
March 2013	The Werewolf Megapack	Wildside Press	Anthology	\|5
May 2013	The Were-Wolf	CreateSpace	Chapbook
November 2013	Werewolf: Five Pieces	LibriVox	Collection
February 2015	The Literary Werewolf	Syracuse University Press	Anthology	\|20
February 2015	The Penny Dreadfuls Megapack	Wildside Press	Anthology	\|4
2016	H. P. Lovecraft Selects: Classic Horror Stories	Fall River Press	Omnibus	251
December 2017	Black Book of the Werewolf	Red Room Press / Comet Press	Anthology	94
October 2019	Victorian Tales of Terror	Kingsbrook Publishing	Anthology	79
August 2020	Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers: 1852-1923	Pegasus Books	Anthology
2023	Dragon Warriors: Viking Myths and Legends	Sam Teddy Publishing	Anthology	204