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RUNNING WOLF
Algernon Blackwood

"Go out. Wander alone among the woods, and if we see you, we slay you. Your bones shall be scattered in the forest, and your spirit shall not enter the Happy Hunting Grounds till one of another race shall find and bury them."

THE THING IN THE FOREST
Bernard Capes

"A wolf! - was it a wolf? O who could doubt it! Yet the wild expression in those famished eyes, so lost, so pitiful, so mingled of insatiable hunger and human need! Condemned, for its unspeak- able sins, to take this form with sunset, and so howl and snuffle about the doors of men until the blessed day released it. A werewolf - not a wolf."

GABRIEL-ERNEST
Saki

"On the open hillside where the boy had been standing a second ago, stood a large wolf, blackish in colour, with gleaming fangs and cruel, yellow eyes. You may think-
Gabriel-Ernest is a werewolf."

WHERE THERE IS NOTHING, THERE IS GOD
William Butler Yeats

"The ruby is a symbol of the love of God.'
'Why is the ruby a symbol of the love of God' 'Because it is red, like fire, and fire burns up everything, and where there is nothing, there is God."

THE WEREWOLF
Eugene Field

"Nowhere was there pity for the wolf; what mercy, thus, should I, the werewolf, show? The curse was on me and it filled me with hunger and a thirst for blood. Skulking on my way within myself I cried, 'Let me have blood, oh let me have human blood, that this wrath may be appeased, that this curse may be removed."

A BALLAD OF THE WEREWOLF
Rosamund Marriott Watson

"He's flung his pouch on the gudewife's lap,
I' the firelicht shinin' fair,
Yet naught they saw o' the grey wolf's paw,
For a bluidy hand lay there."

THE WEREWOLF
Clemence Housman

“He longed for utter annihilation, that so he might lose the agony of knowing himself so unworthy of such perfect love. The frozen calm of death on the face appalled him. He dared not touch it with lips that had cursed so lately, with lips fouled by kiss of the horror that had been Death.”

THE MARK OF THE BEAST
Rudyard Kipling

“Horrid doggy smell in here’

THE WHITE WOLF OF KOSTOPCHIN
Gilbert Campbell

"All I have is yours, Ravina," returned Paul, "name, wealth, and
the devoted love of a lifetime."
"But your heart," persisted she; "it is your heart that I want”.

THE GREY WOLF
George MacDonald

“At last there came a lull in the storm, and the same instant he heard a footfall, stealthy and light as that of a wild beast, upon the bones at the mouth of the cave.”