Call to the Hunt [Paperback]

Steven E. Wedel (Author), Kelley Armstrong (Introduction)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 9, 2005

Moonlight glints through the trees, pulling at your heart. Your skin feels alive, flowing. The pain is incredible, unimaginable - bones shattering and reshaping. You pass out for a moment, awake to a rush of new sensations, new scents. The trees call to run, the air calls for blood, the moon calls to the hunt.... Werewolf Saga author Steven E. Wedel brings you a collection of 12 lycanthropic legends including: * Journey to a New World * Of Witches and Werewolves * The Feast of Saratoga * Elysia * Call to the Hunt * Latent Lycanthropy * Biological Clock * Show Me * Sunday Dentistry * Kiss of the Wolf * To Be A Mother The Scrybe Press edition features an introduction by noted genre author Kelley Armstrong and contains four stories not in the original MoonHowler Press edition, three of which are previously unpublished.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Scrybe Press; 1st edition (April 9, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1933274050
• ISBN-13: 978-1933274058
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.1 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,765,250 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Steven E. Wedel was born in 1966 and today lives in central Oklahoma, where he spends his days as a high school English teacher. Steve has been writing since the mid-1980s. By the early 1990s he was wishing he'd paid more attention to his own high school English teachers because editors were pointing out his grammatical mistakes. He sold his first story, "Unholy Womb", to The Midnight Zoo magazine in 1993. His first novel, Shara, was published by 3F Publications 10 years later, and quickly disappeared when the company went under. Scrybe Press took over the series the following year.

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9 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as I'd hoped, October 16, 2005

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Harmonyfb (USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Call to the Hunt (Paperback)

"Call to the Hunt" is a short story collection by the same author who wrote "Murdered by Human Wolves" (a saddle-stitched novella that was a runaway hit last year.)

I was especially happy to get it, as I enjoyed "Murdered by Human Wolves". I have to confess that I was a bit disappointed.

The cover art is outstanding - great colors, great imagery. Binding seems tight, edges are well-trimmed, but - and this is a big one - the type is so dotty that it looks like it was printed on a dot-matrix printer. It seriously impacted my enjoyment of the book.

I don't know if Scrybe Press is doing their own printing in-house, or if they're contracting it out, but they need to see to the quality of the type.

Sadly, this book is not so much a collection of short stories as it is a series of vignettes, some longer than others. Only one has any sort of internal resolution, and at least one is completely nonsensical, while another is an apparent excuse to write a sex scene.

Story issues aside, Wedel's writing is pleasant and well-crafted, but those who aren't familiar with his other work may find themselves at a loss due to the disconnected narratives.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing, July 11, 2005

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Gayleen Langthorn - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Call to the Hunt (Paperback)

This captivating collection of stories leaves the reader well satisfied. Wedel deftly weaves recognizable events in American history into the werewolf mythology he has created. This touch adds a hint of familiarity to the drama and leaves us wondering what role the wolf played in our past.

Two of Wedel's new stories, Journey to a New World and Of Witches and Werewolves, give us a compelling look at human nature and hypocrisy. The steamy Kiss of the Wolf will certainly make us think twice before slipping away from a party with a stranger.

My only complaint is that there were not more stories - I could read Wedel's work all day and never tire of it.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars howling time with these fun werewolf thrillers, June 28, 2005

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Call to the Hunt (Paperback)

Fans of werewolf thrillers will want to howl with this strong twelve story compilation. Most of the tales are set in the eighteenth century, which Steven E. Wedel uses to deftly portray an eerie environs in spite of commonly known American historical events like an escaped slave, life on the frontier with the Sioux, or the battle of Saratoga. Seven of the contributions star Josef Ulrik, an interesting lycanthrope who steals the show even when the competition is the queen of howling Shara Wellington. For the most part the tales are serious with Sunday Dentistry more a tongue in cheek tale. Readers will feast on this fabulous journey into the world wild werewolves and latent lycanthropic who prove to the enthralled audience that Mr. Wedel knows his subject while also wondering if this author takes the full moon off.

Harriet Klausner