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Gothic Fantasy | Successful Submissions | Were Wolf

Posted by Gillian Whitaker

We’re excited to reveal the list of authors featured in our upcoming anthology, Were Wolf Short Stories! With over 50 tales to enjoy, lovers of werewolf fiction won’t be disappointed. The book publishes in May 2025, on-sale from June in North America, and includes modern stories selected from submissions, combined with classic fiction and folktales. Dr. Karen E. Macfarlane provides the foreword. We’re immensely grateful to everyone who submitted stories for consideration on this ever-popular theme, with congratulations to the selected authors below.

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The Cull by Richard Beauchamp

Moonskin by Charlotte Bond

The Claws Come Out by B.A. Booher

The Change by Ramsey Campbell

Dance, Mephisto by Catherine Cavendish

Rougarou Moon by E.C. Dorgan

We Are Not the Wolf by Roy Graham

Margaery the Wolf by Maria Haskins

When It Happens by Rebecca Jones-Howe

The Feelings of Sheep by Andrew Lyall

When Sleeping Wolves Lie by Mark Patrick Lynch

Skin Traders by Clara MacGauffin

Madame Bisclavret by Natasha Marshall

The Cage in the Forest by Jim Moss

Fangs Fur Love by James Musgrave

Happy Dancing Rejects by Plangdi Neple

Danger from Wolves and Young Men by Aggie Novak

Starved by Rachel Nussbaum

Curse of the Bayou by Natalie Shea

He Who Would Chase the Sun by M.M. Williams

Mouths by Zez Wyatt

Worse than a Wolf by Wen Wen Yang

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These modern authors will appear alongside work by the following classic writers: Clifford Ball, Algernon Blackwood, Gilbert Edward Campbell, Bernard Capes, Marie de France, Arthur Conan Doyle, Eugene Field, Clemence Housman, Robert E. Howard, Joseph Jacobs, Andrew Lang, George MacDonald, Sutherland Menzies, Jane Pentzer Myers, Marcel Prévost, George W.M. Reynolds, Saki, Fyodor Sologub, Eric Stenbock, Alan Sullivan and Henry S. Whitehead, as well as a range of mythology, legends and folklore.

 

This book will be available to buy from May/June via book stores, Amazon, and our website page for Were Wolf Short Stories!

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