Gary Brandner

“vessel Louisa that met a ghastly fate on the Aegean island of Skiathos, said to be infested with werewolves. There was the lost Bulgarian village of Dradja where the cruelest torture by an avenging mob could not force the villagers to give up the killer beast that dwelt among them. Most of the stories dated from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but there were reports of werewolves as early as the writings of Herodotus in 450 B.C., and as recently as the New Orleans Times-Picayune in 1959. “The local newspaper clippings you can go over yourself,” Inez said. “The earliest I could find was in 1919. Altogether, there have been sixteen reported deaths or disappearances in this valley with no logical explanation. Your two young friends with the van would make eighteen.” “Still,” Karyn said, “that’s more than fifty years, and this is a wilderness area where a lot of things can happen lo people.” “Those are only the reported cases. I know of at least two that never made the papers.” “Has anyone told you what happened to the people who lived in this house before you?” “The Fennos? No.” “It was just over four years ago. The old people hadn’t been seen in town for a week or so, and there were inquiries. Your friend Anton Gadak came out to investigate. He found the two of them dead. Supposedly, natural causes.” “That’s not so strange. The Fennos were quite old, weren’t”
― Gary Brandner, The Howling Trilogy