COPYRIGHT INFO
The Werewolf Megapack is copyright © 2013 by Wildside Press LLC. All rights reserved.
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“Leopard,” by Jay Lake, originally appeared in Jim Baen’s Universe, Vol. 4, No. 1. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Gabriel-Ernest,” by Saki (H. H. Munro), is reprinted from Reginald in Russia (1910).
“Sympathy for Wolves,” by John Gregory Betancourt, originally appeared in Horrors! 365 Scary Stories. Copyright © 1998 by John Gregory Betancourt. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Drone,” by Abraham Merritt, originally appeared in Fantasy Magazine, September 1934.
“The Were-Wolf,” by Clemence Housman, originally appeared in 1896.
“And Bob’s Your Uncle,” by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, originally appeared in Full Moon City. Copyright © 2010 by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Mark of the Beast,” by Rudyard Kipling, is reprinted from Life’s Handicap (1915).
“Dumpster Diving,” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman, originally appeared in Werewolves. Copyright © 1995 by Nina Kiriki Hoffman. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Werewolf,” by Eugene Field, is reprinted from Second Book of Tales (1911).
“The Wolf,” by Guy de Maupassant, is reprinted from Original Short Stories, vol. 4 (1890).
“Wolves of Darkness,” by Jack Williamson, originally appeared in Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror, January 1932.
“The Man Who Was Changed Into a Crow,” by P’u Sung-ling, originally appeared in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (circa 1740). The version used in this edition has been edited and updated from a public domain translation by John Betancourt especially for this edition. Copyright © 2013 by John Gregory Betancourt
“Hugues, the Wer-Wolf,” by Sutherland Menzies, was originally published in 1838.
“The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains,” by Frederick Marryat, is an taken from The Phantom Ship (1839).
“The She-Wolf,” by Saki (H. H. Munro), is taken from Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914).
“Morraha,” by Joseph Jacobs, is taken from More Celtic Fairy Tales (1895).
“The Other Side: A Breton Legend,” by Eric Stenbock, originally appeared in 1893.
“The White Wolf of Kostopchin,” by Sir Gilbert Campbell, originally appeared in Wild and Weird Tales of Imagination and Mystery (1889).
“The Wolf Leader,” by Alexandre Dumas, originally appeared in this translation in 1904.
“The Hunter’s Moon,” by Michael McCarty and Terrie Leigh Relf, is copyright © 2013 by Michael McCarty and Terrie Leigh Relf. Published by permission of the authors.
“Werewolf of the Sahara,” by G. G. Pendarves, originally appeared in Weird Tales in August-September, 1936.
“Evil Forces,” by Gary Lovisi, is copyright © 2013 by Gary Lovisi. Published by permission of the author.
A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER
Over the last year, our “Megapack” series of ebook anthologies has proved to be one of our most popular endeavors. (Maybe it helps that we sometimes offer them as premiums to our mailing list!) One question we keep getting asked is, “Who’s the editor?”
The Megapacks (except where specifically credited) are a group effort. Everyone at Wildside works on them. This includes John Betancourt, Carla Coupe, Steve Coupe, Bonner Menking, Colin Azariah-Kribbs, A.E. Warren, and many of Wildside’s authors…who often suggest stories to include (and not just their own!).
A NOTE FOR KINDLE READERS
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THE MEGAPACK SERIES
The Adventure Megapack
The Christmas Megapack
The Second Christmas Megapack
The Cowboy Megapack
The Craig Kennedy Scientific Detective Megapack
The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack
The Ghost Story Megapack
The Horror Megapack
The Macabre Megapack
The Martian Megapack
The Military Megapack
The Mummy Megapack
The Mystery Megapack
The Science Fiction Megapack
The Second Science Fiction Megapack
The Third Science Fiction Megapack
The Fourth Science Fiction Megapack
The Fifth Science Fiction Megapack
The Sixth Science Fiction Megapack
The Penny Parker Megapack
The Pinocchio Megapack
The Pulp Fiction Megapack
The Rover Boys Megapack
The Steampunk Megapack
The Tom Corbett, Space Cadet Megapack
The Tom Swift Megapack
The Vampire Megapack
The Victorian Mystery Megapack
The Werewolf Megapack
The Western Megapack
The Wizard of Oz Megapack
AUTHOR MEGAPACKS
The B.M. Bower Megapack
The Wilkie Collins Megapack
The Randall Garrett Megapack
The Murray Leinster Megapack
The Second Murray Leinster Megapack
The Andre Norton Megapack
The Rafael Sabatini Megapack
LEOPARD, by Jay Lake
Under cover of darkness, Mattie crawled among the grape arbors lining the path across from his parents’ cabin. The sharp, sour smell of fallen fruit mixed with rich loam and the salt of his sweat. The grid of Motherlights glowed dimly overhead to define the night. His little sister Juna followed close behind, as she always did.
Somewhere