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Rating: 2,5 StarsPodem ler a minha opinião completa, em português, no blog Floresta de Livros.I have to admit I was hoping for more. It's not that I didn't like any of the tales, but most were merely average. Still, the ones that stood out for me were:- "The Other Side (a Breton Legend)", Count Stenbock;- "A Werewolf of the Campagna", Mrs. Hugh Fraser;- "William and the Werewolf", F.J. Harvey Darton;- "Gabriel-Ernest", Saki;- "The Thing in the Forest", Bernard Capes;- "Among the Wolves", Vasile
Some better than others, but in general a good book, with short-stories to all tastes. Personally, mine were the settings and details from the old 19th myths. And she-wolfs. There is something thrilling about she-wolfs.
Short stories about werewolves, some good, some not so good. Enjoyable over all. "The Clay Party" was visceral as fuck and the best story. There was also a nice short Sherlock Holmes story.
Great collection of early werewolf stories. I particularly enjoyed Barry Pain's "The Undying Thing," Sir Gilbert Campbell's "The White Wolf of Kostopchin," and Count Stenbock's surreal fantasy "The Other Side."
I wanted to like this one more on account of me loving werewolves, but I found it a bit lacking at times. I enjoyed a lot of the earlier stories that looked at the mythic origins of the monster, but some of the later stories in which the werewolf was actually just a person were disappointing. It was a short and very readable over-all though, not a bad Halloween read.
I struggled to get through this. As I have stated before, I'm not a fan of collected short stories or anthologies unless they deal with the same characters. This is a collection of werewolf related tales spanning the last 100 years or more. Only two or three I thought were good, the rest were mediocre. Some even felt too similar to each other, and yet others only relied on the werewolf myth as a way of covering up human performed acts of violence and murder.
I picked this one up on Wednesday of this Week. It was more of an impulse buy than anything else, having already picked up a book. This one was at a low price so I thought what the hell. The impulse being strengthened by my fondness for both Horror and Werewolves. The major problems I had with it is that there was not really enough variety that made me anticipate the next story. Around about the same time period for a few stories at a time and some even following a similar yet tame formula. So,
After re reading Dracula this summer it felt only fitting to tackle the other classic monster. So I jumped at the occasion of reading the Werewolf Pack a collection of short werewolf stories. The book is a solid 3 out of 5 stars for me and although most stories are formulaic I had fun reading them. As stand outs i would recommend "A werewolf of the Campagna", an italian story that asks the question " Would the Almighty still sit on his throne if he wouldn't behave in accordance to a gentleman's
17 contos da velha guarda, alguns com tons de fantasia, alguns com tons de contos de fadas, alguns com tons de terror, uma compra muito satisfatória que me deixou extremamente contente.Alguns contos eram não muito bons, mas perfeitamente aceitáveis, mas, na sua maioria, absolutamente excelentes.
Wow. This one took me a lot more time than I thought it'd take. I started reading it on September 1st! And it only has 209 pages! =o To be honest, some of the stories deserve way more than the 2 stars I gave, but there are some that drags for far too long. And they're written in an old English, around the 18th century and I guess some of the 17th, too, so it does not help. But I'm glad I've managed to finish it!
Like any thematic anthologies, this book suffers from the inevitable malady of anthologies: inconsistency in terms of quality. Belittling the noble intentions of Mark Valentine (himself a supremely competent author horror, but as an editor.......) to cover the history of werewolf literature in English through representative examples, this collection is dragged to the point of being frankly boring by most of its stories, before being lifted into unexpectedly elevated level by a few recent efforts...
I must say I really missed this kind of stuff, classic werewolf tales, the kind of werewolves that don't knock on your door with a bouquet and shyly ask you out, maybe apologising occasionally for shedding some fur on your sofa and, at the same time, hoping against hope your vampire boyfriend doesn't find out he's taking you out. No, instead most of these werewolves would jump right through your window, rip out your throat and maybe then (just maybe) take what's left of you to a very morbid date...
