Cycle of the Werewolf

Something arrives in Tarker's Mills with the full moon, and the small Maine town begins losing people one month at a time. Stephen King structures the book by the calendar, giving each chapter a single month of a single year, opening as the moon rises and closing with what it has left behind. A snowbound railwayman is the first, a woman in her own bedroom the next, and the town's dread accumulates as the pattern becomes impossible to ignore. The compressed form gives it the feel of a folk tale told fast, with terror rationed out in monthly doses. How it reads: • Twelve chapters, one for each month of the year • A small-town setting closed in by winter and fear • Short enough to finish across a single evening • Classic werewolf material handled with restraint and dread For horror readers and collectors of Stephen King's shorter work, Cycle of the Werewolf is available at Boipoka.