Werewolves discussion

Our season's group read author this time is interesting to read about. I've never read any of his work previously. Located just two states west of me in the southeastern United States in Alabama, he is still alive and working, I'm happy to see.

It's almost as if he's two separate persons though. The earlier one is the Robert R. McCammon of 1978-1992, who wrote a dozen horror novels, of which we are reading the ninth, twice as many short stories during the period, but who then quit writing due to a spat with his publisher and a subsequent depression.

He came back in 2002, a more serious historical fiction writer, who left off writing horror. He tried to somewhat disown his earlier work, stating it was not up to standard. He was happy for a while to deny republishing rights in order to hopefully bury it. And yet, the earlier Robert R. McCammon is the more popular one. I've read that in recent years he has reconciled with the earlier version of himself, decided his earlier writing wasn't so bad after all, and is allowing much of it to be republished now.

I was interested to see that The Wolf's Hour is not a stand-alone work any more. In 2011 Robert R. McCammon published a Michael Gallatin sequel, a collection of six short stories titled The Hunter from the Woods.

He published three short stories, not related, last year (2020), and has more novels that will soon be published in his Matthew Corbett series (historical fiction).

I've read Stinger. It was okay.

There was a period where I consumed all of McCammon's work and would argue (there was alcohol involved) that he was a Southern Stephen King, and greatly unappreciated. After his depressive episodes (which weremore tragic than many knew) he's come back but not quite the same writer as before. And I loved Stinger, Scott. But then I was younger then.

I can see why in his maturity he might have wanted to turn to historical fiction entirely and leave out the genre elements of his earlier fiction. He certainly writes the historical fiction part well in this earlier work. You can tell he has a love for research and authentic recreation of the period.

Has anybody read the sequel to The Wolf’s Hour? Would like to get an idea of what the book is about. Is it worth it? 🤔🤷🏽‍♀️

Zain

Just ordered it from eBay.
Hope the writing/stories hold up as well as in Wolf's Hour.

From what I saw it's a collection made up from three short stories (ranging up to around 30 pages) and three longer ones (ranging from around 70 pages to 100+ pages).

Zain wrote: "Has anybody read the sequel to The Wolf’s Hour? Would like to get an idea of what the book is about. Is it worth it? 🤔🤷🏽‍♀️

Zain"

I know this thread is fairly old, but Zain, if you haven't read it yet, I will say that Hunter From the Woods is definitely worth the read. I loved it! It isn't really a sequel. It's short stories revolving around Michael Gallatin at different stages of his life.