New American Library, 1983
ISBN: 0451822196
Available: New and Used
Cycle of the Werewolf is a good old fashioned basic werewolf book. The book chronicles a series of werewolf attacks in the small Maine town of Tarker’s Mills on a month by month basis. Marty Coslaw, a 10 year old boy, who is confined to a wheelchair who lives in Tarker’s Mills manages to survive an encounter with the werewolf he must uncover who the werewolf is with the help of his sister Kate and Uncle Al before the werewolf attacks again. This is a very straight forward werewolf story without a lot of twists and turns. Kings writing is solid and his text is supplemented with great illustrations by Berni Wrightson. The story was eventually made in to a movie Silver Bullet in 1985. I would consider this a core of any werewolf collection. Contains violence.