Wagner the Werewolf

First published in 1847 as Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf and since released by Wordsworth Editions as part of their Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural series in 2006 as Wagner the Werewolf with an introduction by Dick Collins.

Fans of horror and students of the history of pulp fiction will be enthralled by this little-remembered early novel of werewolf fantasy, a “penny dreadful” first published in 1846–7 and written by British author GEORGE WILLIAM MACARTHUR REYNOLDS (1814–1879). The veritable Stephen King of his day — his lurid stories were more widely read than Dickens’ work — Reynolds here gives us the strange exploits of Wagner, a 16th-century German peasant who made a pact with the devil for immortality, and hence was cursed to become a werewolf on a disturbingly regular basis. With his beautiful but wicked companion Nisida, he roams a world of Gothic nightmares, of horrifying intrigue, murder, and strange supernatural doings.