Sometime around 1500, in Hungary, a merchant traveling home one night is attacked by werewolves and transformed into one. Generations of his family are cursed by this one act.
This classic story of a werewolf and his descendants was inspired by a comment by H.P. Lovecraft suggesting a story written from the werewolf’s point of view. The Werewolf of Ponkert was expanded with two more stories and the trio became the series, “The Tales of the Master.” Later, three more stories were added that became the second series, “Tales of the Werewolf Clan.” The complete set of both series is included in this book.
The Werewolf of Ponkert (1925) – They Flayed Him Alive and Wrote His Story on His Tanned Skin. –A five chapter novelette including Prologue.
The Return of the Master (1927) – The Werewolf of Ponkert returns from the pit of Hell to thwart the sinister Master who has wrought his downfall.
A Voice from the Dead
The Man on the Train
Pursuit
Regina’s Story
Surprizes
A Night at an Inn
Shadows All!
Vengeance at Last
The Werewolf’s Daughter (1928) – A romantic story of the weird adventures that befell the daughter of the Werewolf of Ponkert
Child of Wo
Dmitri Tells the Truth
The Singer and the Song
Lovers—and a Lunatic
The Gathering Storm
While the Master Watched
Part 2
The Coming of the Curse
How Two Men Came to Ponkert
Rapier Versus Saber
Part 3
Dmitri Holds the Narrow Way
Blois at Last
Epilogue
Tales of the Werewolf Clan 1. The Master Strikes (1930) – The first of a series of stories narrating the adventures of the progeny of the Werewolf of Ponkert
The Cat Organ
Hau! Hau! Huguenots!
Tales of the Werewolf Clan 2. The Master Fights (1930) – Occult forces were behind the disaster that over took the Invincible Armada sent by the Spanish king against the power of England
The Wreck of the Santa Ysabel
The Bug-Wolves of Castle Manglana
In the Tomb of the Bishop
Tales of the Werewolf Clan 3. The Master Has a Narrow Escape (1931) – A tale of the Thirty Years War and the first case of witchcraft in New England
The Leather Cannon
Achsah Young—of Windsor