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'The true narrative artist is a rare creature. Storytelling - the ability to make the listener or the reader need to know, demand to know, what happens next - is a gift...Stephen King, like Charles Dickens before him, has this gift in spades.' (The Times on CELL 20080120)
'Thrilling, genuinely terrifying, beautifully textured and full of wonderful invention' (Daily Mail on LISEY'S STORY )
'He has become a fascinating paradoxical figure, still seen as ultra-commercial but, in fact, increasingly highbrow and self-conscious' (Sunday Times on DUMA KEY )
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'Thrilling, genuinely terrifying, beautifully textured and full of wonderful invention' (Daily Mail on LISEY'S STORY )
'He has become a fascinating paradoxical figure, still seen as ultra-commercial but, in fact, increasingly highbrow and self-conscious' (Sunday Times on DUMA KEY )
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When the full moon shines, a paralysing fear descends on the isolated Maine town of Tarker Mills. No one knows who will be attacked next, but snarls that sound like human words can be heard and all around are the footprints of a monster whose hunger cannot be sated.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A curio by King standards - originally a concept for a calendar - with each month featuring a chilling attack in the town of Tarker's Mills, Maine, by a monster whose bloodlust cannot be sated...
The calendar ultimately wasn't made (and I think the story was a bit too long for the calendar if memory serves), but this is an entertaining short story, which probably could be remade as a graphic novel (which to a certain degree it is already, with Berni Wrightson's superb illustrations accentuating King's prose).
It is a by the numbers tale, but I love the simplicity of the story. Werewolf terrorizes small town, someone works out who the monster is - showdown between the two occurs, with blood, savagery and of course, the werewolf is cunning - and more than a mere beast stalking the moonlit night for the flesh it craves.
Cliched, yes, but when written in style, so why gripe, when it works so well?
The film, Silver Bullet took a few liberties here and there (and I love it too), but this is fine King - before he became bogged down during the late 80's.
Part mystery, part campfire horror tale, Cycle of the Werewolf is King's spin on the werewolf, as sure as 'Salem's Lot was his redressing of Dracula, and is well worth a read.
The calendar ultimately wasn't made (and I think the story was a bit too long for the calendar if memory serves), but this is an entertaining short story, which probably could be remade as a graphic novel (which to a certain degree it is already, with Berni Wrightson's superb illustrations accentuating King's prose).
It is a by the numbers tale, but I love the simplicity of the story. Werewolf terrorizes small town, someone works out who the monster is - showdown between the two occurs, with blood, savagery and of course, the werewolf is cunning - and more than a mere beast stalking the moonlit night for the flesh it craves.
Cliched, yes, but when written in style, so why gripe, when it works so well?
The film, Silver Bullet took a few liberties here and there (and I love it too), but this is fine King - before he became bogged down during the late 80's.
Part mystery, part campfire horror tale, Cycle of the Werewolf is King's spin on the werewolf, as sure as 'Salem's Lot was his redressing of Dracula, and is well worth a read.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is not at all what you expect from a novel. It is very short (could be read in a couple of hours or less), and the story is very simple. It feels like a children's book, albeit a very gory one. For all that, however, it is a strangely satisfying little book, with nice illustrations, and a King fan would enjoy owning it.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This isn't a full length novel, but a short novella illustrated with a number of black and white and full colour pictures by Berni Wrightson. Storywise this tale of a werewolf stalking an isolated Maine town is pretty bog standard stuff, with no real new ideas or spins on the werewolf myth, though as ever King's style makes this eminently readable and the illustrations are pleasant. Nice, but nothing outstanding.
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Less a horror novel and more a horror novel's highlights
Cycle of the Werewolf is a long series of violent episodes which soon grows tiresome. It has too much prologue, no middle and not enough climax. Read more
Published 2 days ago by Jack Heslop
Cycle of the Werewolf
I was a little disappointed with this book, it was not up to the usually white knuckle read put out by Mr. King, a lot different from his other writings.
Published 26 days ago by pixiestix
The hairy gent from... America
In a small American town called Tarker's Mills, a series of grisly murders has people talking - not just about the way they are killed, brutally mauled to death as if by an animal,... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Sam Quixote
Vintage Stephen King
For me, the Werewolf is quintessentially a creature of horror, and not an excuse for some pretty Native Americans to show off their overly developed pecs. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Pablo Cheesecake (The Eloquent Page)
5 stars - with a bullet!!
This is back in the days of Creepshow, what an amazing horror piece that was. Horror was simple, visually more tactile, less punch for more bite. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Jackiesmackie
Cycle of the werewolf
I love this graphic novel as much as it scares me, the drawings are superb, simple but give a lot of detail. Read more
Published 15 months ago by alfred e neumann
Good story...though spoiled by the drawings
I am a HUGE Stephen King fan, though I still have not read all of his books. I got this collector's edition and started reading it right away. Read more
Published on 29 April 2006 by Lord Sephart
King collectors delight
I'm a huge Stephen King fan, I have everything and this just completes the collection. It's not the best story he has ever written but it is good and so nicely... Read more
Published on 5 Jan 2006 by Mr. S. D. Downs
An unusual yet scary book from King
This is a GREAT book. This book is for all Stephen King fans, it is the usual werewolf that you always see in the movies but the way King describes it that you feel as if you're... Read more
Published on 19 Feb 2001 by Roman Hochuli
An unusually bad book from the master of storytelling.
I read this book within the hour, so disappointing in many ways. The story telling was brief and not overly enthralling. Read more
Published on 4 Mar 2000
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