The Werewolf of Ponkert

The Werewolf of PonkertThe Werewolf of Ponkert first appeared in Weird Tales magazine and H. Warner Munn remembers that the idea stemmed from a query of H. P. Lovecrafts which asked why someone did not attempt a werewolf story as narrated by the werewolf himself. The story is placed in fifteenth century Hungary, where its central character is forced to join a werewolf pack through the power of a creature known simply as the master a creature patterned in the tradition and

ÒThe Werewolf of PonkertÓ first appeared in Weird Tales magazine and H. Warner Munn remembers that the idea stemmed from a query of H. P. LovecraftÕs which asked why someone did not attempt a werewolf story as narrated by the werewolf himself.

The story is placed in fifteenth century Hungary, where its central character is forced to join a werewolf pack through the power of a creature known simply as the ÒmasterÓ Ñ a creature patterned in the tradition and manner of Melmoth the Wanderer.

This book contains a second story, ÒThe WerewolfÕs DaughterÓ. In it, the daughter of the narrator has grown to young womanhood, and is confronted with the hates and fears and superstitions of the towns-people, all of whom know the history of her werewolf father. And always in the background looms the shadow of the immortal ÒmasterÓ.