Krantz is haunted by his original wife’s misgivings and kills her for cheating on him.īut Krantz finds a woman far worse than his wife in Christina, the inversion of femininity, motherhood, and marriage creates this horrific and gothic image that is undoubtedly feminist in its sentiment. Ultimately the story is one of dangerous femininity. Having broken his wedding vow, Krantz is forever haunted by mountain spirits. The wedding vows require Krantz to never hurt Christina or death will befall his children.Īs his children start to mysteriously be killed by wolves, Krantz eventually catches the killer in the act and finds his wife Christina eating his dead child’s body.Īfter shooting her, her body turns into a wolf. Krantz decides to marry Christina, a beautiful woman with cruelty in her eyes. He is led deep into the woods and meets a fellow Hungarian Hunter and his child, Christina. He finds his lodge is haunted by a white wolf at night and he decides to hunt for its rarity.

They seek refuge in the Hartz mountains with his children. When he finds his wife cheating on him he murders both his wife and her eloper. The story focuses on Hermann Krantz, a Hungarian nobleman. This aforementioned tale is what Stoker’s Dracula is to the vampire genre, to the werewolf genre. The Flying Dutchman is the legend of a ghost ship that is haunted and can never dock but is destined to forever rule the seas.Ī chapter of the book is titled The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains or sometimes called The Werewolf. The Phantom Ship is probably the most classic interpretation of the werewolf story, telling the story of the Flying Dutchman ship. The Phantom Ship (1839) By Frederick Marryant Best Werewolf Booksįind out below some of the most classic and some more modern re-telling of the werewolf myth. Keep reading to learn more about werewolves and their literature.

In this article, we are going to discuss our favorites, some of which shaped the genre itself, and some which are more modern adaptations of the myth. That said, the werewolf genre is certainly not as saturated as the vampire genre.

With a myth that dates back much further than vampires, to Greek myth itself, there is a wealth of werewolf literature for us to choose from. They are often dark and gothic in their tones or can even be more tongue in cheek. They often have themes of isolation, beastliness, metamorphosis, body dysmorphia, and more. Like vampires, werewolf stories get to the heart of the myth itself. This makes it very versatile, with its main defining feature being that of the werewolf itself. Whether that is romance, horror, science fiction, fantasy, or a whole host of other genres.

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