Like Dark Angels and Daughters of Darkness, this book gathers first-rate horror stories that will appeal to all readers of darkly erotic, transgressive fiction. here are tales of women werewolves--beings so darkly erotic their desires literally turn them into animals.
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Pam Keesey is well known for her writing on women in horror, including her books Daughters of Darkness, Dark Angels, Women Who Run with the Werewolves, and Vamps: An Illustrated History of the Femme Fatale. She is the editor and publisher of MonsterZine, an online horror movie magazine that, in the words of Dr. Frank C. Baxter of The Mole People (1956), explores the meaning and significance of horror movies in the 21st century. Pam has also worked as a technical writer, a news editor, and as an editor of occult books in Spanish.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Uneven, but with some bite!,
By GoryDetails "gorydetails" (Nashua, NH USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Women Who Run With the Werewolves: Tales of Blood, Lust and Metamorphosis (Paperback)
This is a collection of stories with a women-as-werewolves theme, and includes the wonderful (if provocatively-titled) "Boobs", Suzy McKee Charnas' tale of a girl who finds puberty to be an unpleasant kind of shape-shifting, before she encounters a more... interesting... kind. [This story's a great antidote to some of those sickeningly-sweet books-for-teen-girls that tried to persuade us what a wonderful thing it was to get our first periods. Ahem!]
I also enjoyed Ursula K. LeGuin's "The Wife's Story," which takes the usual werewolf tale from a different point of view. And Thomas S. Roche's "Sisters of the Weird" introduces a troubled young woman to a very unusual new friend. (I'd read Roche's work in other anthologies and was pleased to find him here as well.) As with most collections there are ups and downs in this one, but overall I enjoyed the variations on the theme. [I see that the other reviewers aren't as impressed, and it's true that I've read stronger collections, but I still think this one's worth a look.]
3.0 out of 5 stars
Mixed bag of short wolfy tales,
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This review is from: Women Who Run With the Werewolves: Tales of Blood, Lust and Metamorphosis (Paperback)
An anthology of wolfy tales, some good, some "meh".
I've read many raves about Charlee Jacob's work but was a little unimpressed with Permafrost. An institutionalized woman with bipolar dreams of running under the light of a full moon as a werewolf. It was decently written but too brief and I saw the ending coming as soon as the author described the doc's eyes. Many elements of Boobs by Suzy McKee Charnas reminded me a lot of the movie "Ginger Snaps". Have you all seen that one? If not, you must. I'm curious which came first, the movie or the book but I'm too lazy to look it up. I enjoyed this story a lot. It brought up body issues, bullying and made me thankful I'm long past over all of that stuff! Moon Running by Jody Brewer was a unique take on the whole "I despise being a beast" thing usually found in these types of collections. A Model of Transformation by Renee Charles was a bit of uninteresting froth about a beautiful young woman's transformation to stunner to super model with a twist, of course. I found the "erotic" bits to be very clinical and detached. The story would've been the same without them. They seemed as if they were added after the fact or as if the author were uncomfortable with writing the scenes. As a result they were anything but erotic. The Final Truth by Steve Eller starts out like a teenage boy's wet dream and ends like a bad version of a Tales From the Crypt episode. A workaholic city boy decides to get away from it all and rents a cabin in a secluded area. Immediately appears a beautiful woman who jumps his bones. He decides to give up his previous life and play house with the were-woman. But as with most wild things she's unpredictable and her actions in the end weren't adequately explained enough for me to buy into it. The Wife's Story by Ursula LeGuin was one I thoroughly enjoyed. It was short, melancholy and precise with an emotional impact behind the words and I'm not going to spoil it by rambling on (and on). Teamwork by Paul Allen was a story I thought would be one of my favorites. I love dogs but I didn't like this story featuring a guide dog and her new owner Gretchen. The reason? Gretchen was not a sympathetic character. Sisters of the Weird by Thomas S. Roche is about bar chicks who howl at the moon and it just didn't thrill me. There wasn't enough meat (sorry, couldn't resist) to the story to grab me. The Change by Barbara Ferrenz was about a woman experiencing personality changes and a lust for blood. Her doc insists her changes are due to menopause, she believes he screwed up her head after prescribing her a drug. His solution is to write up a prescription for something else. I enjoyed the whole distrusting the medical industry bits in this story. The Hound of God by Tom Piccirelli was another I enjoyed quite a bit but I wanted it to be longer. The heroine of the story, Tangera, was a fascinating character with an interesting life story that was only briefly touched upon in this short story. I have some of this author's work and will have to see if he ever expanded on this one. Visitation by Pamela Jensen was a sad story about an older woman abandoned by her children who apparently gave up her best years, her dreams and even resisted her own nature in order to raise them. A Wilder Truth by Mari Hersh Tudor is about a young woman shunned by her wolf family because she's different and forced to enter into a strange new world. This was an okay story but not as original as some in this collection. Breaking the Circle by Michael W. Lucas is yet another story about an adolescent werewolf who is shunned by her family and trying to cope. This theme seems to be a common one in this collection but this one was one of the better ones as it really gets into the head of the protagonist. Wilding by Melanie Tem was a bit confusing and hard to follow for me. I have the full novel of "Wilding" so I think I'll just read that and see if it makes more sense and clears up the confusion. I think I missed taking notes on one or two stories and my memory is so bad I can't remember enough about them to post a comment. Overall this was a decent collection but I'm still a bit confounded as to why it was classified as horror/erotica on the back cover. Only a very small handful of the tales fit in either category.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
UNREALIZED POTENTIAL,
By MONTGOMERY (WASHINGTON, DC - U.S.A.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Women Who Run With the Werewolves: Tales of Blood, Lust and Metamorphosis (Paperback)
This book could have been so much better than it turned out to be. The world of female werewolves is representative of a part of the horror genre that has been little explored. Aside from 3 or 4 exceptions, the stories were flat. One of the dullest stories by far in this collection was the one with the Jamaican woman werewolf. It read like a series of disjointed vignettes, haphazardly patched together, leaving no sense of what she was really like, either as a woman or as a Wolf. Sadly, there are too few novels out in the market now that provide a well-developed and credible treatment of the female werewolf (the exceptions being the novels "BITTEN", "STOLEN","SHADOW OF THE BEAST", and "NAKED BRUNCH"). I give this collection 1 star only because I hope that it will inspire other writers to develop more works (short stories and novels) featuring well-rounded, down-to-earth, real women - who just happen to be werewolves.
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