George W. M. Reynolds ~11 hr read

On a dark and tempestuous January night in the Black Forest of 1516, amid the howling of affrighted wolves, a fateful bargain is struck, and Wagner becomes the wehr-wolf.

George W. M. Reynolds's 1847 penny dreadful is a lurid classic of gothic horror. Sensational, sprawling, immensely popular. Read it for a foundational werewolf epic from a king of Victorian penny fiction, a Faustian pact, a monthly curse, and gothic melodrama piled high, a hugely influential shocker that helped fix the werewolf legend in popular fiction.

In its time

Published in 1847, during the 1840s, mystery, mesmerism, and the proto-scientific tale in the age of poe and gautier.

Reading it

~11 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).