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Moon of the Wolf by Leslie H. Whitten Jr.
Moon of the Wolf by Leslie H. Whitten Jr.









And pass for how long? Suppose he is only mad one day out of four.' The doctor paused. 'Won't it pass?' asked Whitaker incredulously.

Moon of the Wolf by Leslie H. Whitten Jr.

'The alternative is that you hunt him down and kill him. Then he will have to be kept in a cell, for a long time, under strong drugs, probably until he dies.' De Glew touched his throat, cleared it slightly. Late effects of acute infectious encephalitis, lycanthropy, to be exact. Uncommon, but there, as solidly classified in medical literature as measles. The doctor spoke softly, unwilling to stop until he had talked out the whole scope of the problem. Not that way, not like some monster, a vampire or some such' 'They don't exist,' he said sharply, jolted by a memory of old movies. Whitaker protested with a gasp of astonishment. Weesee, when she used that word, Loup-garou, was right, at least in a sense.

Moon of the Wolf by Leslie H. Whitten Jr.

I'm ashamed, Harry, so ashamed.' She sobbed for a moment, then with difficulty regained her control.” I mean something of me went with him and the rest of me wanted to go with him. 'I was conscious of myself again, it was like I had been left hollow, worthless. He was drawing everything out of me - my job, that you were trying to trap him, even things about me, even personal things. 'And I felt I was going to faint, and I tried, I tried to break out of that stare of his, but I couldn't.

Moon of the Wolf by Leslie H. Whitten Jr.

Destroying me right there on the sidewalk. It was like some sort of spider sucking out all my juices. The lashes were thick and Harry I just can't say this right, but the eyes, they weren't repulsive. I could see the iris was dark brown, almost black, and the whites were bloodshot lines. God, they were anything but dead the way they are in his picture. But he hissed, and those awful red eyes, like red fire, coals. He smelled strange, I noticed that right away, not rotten like you and Roticella said, more complicated, like an apple that the wasps are flying around, musty, but autumny.











Moon of the Wolf by Leslie H. Whitten Jr.