- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd; New edition edition (16 Jan 1992)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340241675
- ISBN-13: 978-0340241677
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 11.2 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 385,946 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Wolfen have lived and fed on humanity for thousands of years. They are hideously ugly and utterly savage but relentless and smart. Two cops, a man and a woman, who are bound together in a strange love and hate relationship have experienced the full awful horror of the Wolfen.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Good horror books really do not run in pack - for every one that is good there is ten that suck. Now this one is a real masterpiece. It is extremely well written, logic, coherent, almost scientifically credible, with an exceptionally great insight in the minds of the monsters - in fact, are they really monsters? The great originality of this book is that the "monsters" are actually a loving and caring family - well, OK, they mostly dine on human flesh, but nobody is perfect, right? This is a pure treasure - one of the best fantastic books I ever read! It will scare you but also make you howl with delight - not only at the full moon... And if you saw the movie, do not panic - the book has almost NOTHING to do with the movie (in the film they changed everything and messed it up as a result) and is infinitely better.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Strieber's race of Wolfen scares me.
We know very little about which species walked the earth, our knowledge based on the finds paleontologists have made. Do these finds not only give us knowledge about what was once there, but also set standards for what couldn't have existed?
Strieber writes about a race, with a metabolism and a hunger so strong that they never leave any remains. The dead will be devoured, to the smallest piece of fur, the last claw, leaving nothing for the scientists to find: ergo = they don't exist!
But here they do, as shadows in the night, cunningly avoiding being seen and devouring anyone who by chance catch a glimpse of their nocturnal frenzies.
The book is simply exciting. read it, but don't blame me if the Dark gets much worse hereafter.
We know very little about which species walked the earth, our knowledge based on the finds paleontologists have made. Do these finds not only give us knowledge about what was once there, but also set standards for what couldn't have existed?
Strieber writes about a race, with a metabolism and a hunger so strong that they never leave any remains. The dead will be devoured, to the smallest piece of fur, the last claw, leaving nothing for the scientists to find: ergo = they don't exist!
But here they do, as shadows in the night, cunningly avoiding being seen and devouring anyone who by chance catch a glimpse of their nocturnal frenzies.
The book is simply exciting. read it, but don't blame me if the Dark gets much worse hereafter.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I read this 12 years ago and have been searching for another copy ever since.Horror stories are not normally my thing being of a gentle persuasion, however I found The Wolfen oddly plausible and quite one of the most disturbing books I have read. Often afterwards, at night walking home, I would stop and wonder....was that something rushing across the street, almost impossibly quickly. I guess I found that this book induced fear, pure and simple. The film based on the book was lamentable and pointless. The beauty of the book is that it tells the story from both sides, human and Wolfen and the film could not capture that element. Quite how it was believable I don't know, but it was. Read it yourself, but afterwards, don't go out walking after dark...
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The Wolfen....be prepared to be eaten!!
Some time ago I made a comment on an online forum that I felt annoyed and depressed at the complete lack of intelligent and readily available horror reading material. Read more
Published 4 months ago by RT Twinem
one of Streiber's better novels
The Wolfen is one of Streiber's better novels, unless a reader prefers vampires or aliens that is. The Wolfen falls under the horror genre, but it is much more than the traditional... Read more
Published 18 months ago by Rebecca
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i purchased this book for my girlfriend and it arrived very quickly and although the copy was 30 years old it was in excellent condition i will be getting more books from the world... Read more
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