Werewolves discussion

This group is for those who love to read werewolf stories, especially classic ones, but also modern ones, always with a bent towards horror. We love the chasing, slashing, gnashing, and converting, followed by discovering what happens to the tortured souls who must deal with their newfound horror of an existence.

In looking at some Goodreads lists, of which quite a few include werewolves, I notice that some emphasize the shapeshifting aspect of being a werewolf, many (too many) the romance. Still others think it's funny and actually write comedy. As if getting ripped to shreds by claws and fangs can ever be funny!

Here, we emphasize the horror as found in the classics. However, we want to have growth too, so we expand our scope to fantasy, especially urban fantasy, like Patricia Briggs' work. Urban fantasy is where many serious modern werewolf stories are being told.

An excellent list for our kind of Werewolf books is the following: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1.... Peruse it for a real feel of the great literature being produced about our poor, misunderstood, canine friends. Thank you fellow lycanthropists for joining. Please tell your friends about this awesome group. We need more members. Now, let's have fun!

Are you including group read books on the group's bookshelf or is that for any WW books members have read...I think groups do this differently.

I am only including group reads on our bookshelf and relying on the werewolf book list as one good source of ideas for werewolf books. I'll include buddy read books on the bookshelf too, of course, once our group is big enough to sustain buddy reads. I just reached page 252, almost halfway through, our summer read, so I unfortunately can't take on buddy reads myself quite yet.

Dan wrote: "I am only including group reads on our bookshelf and relying on the werewolf book list as one good source of ideas for werewolf books. I'll include buddy read books on the bookshelf too, of course,..."

Thank you, Dan.

Good suggestion! However, Ovid's Metamorphoses is no light read, and only one small part references werewolves. I have created a topic in this group's non-fiction section for early works that can be read fairly quickly via excerpt for what they say about werewolves. I'll keep adding to it to make it complete as time goes by.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...