music by Brandon Rucker

Buy one or buy all seven stories

Check out story and audio excerpts from all seven stories, then go to the Tooth and Claw Anthology Product page to buy them all. We currently only sell the audio and text options separately, but at these prices, it’s easy to have it all.

EXCERPT FROM INTRODUCTION

The werewolf mythos has spanned world cultures for hundreds of years. Recognized within the transmutational human-wolf creature of European heritage, the essence of this story pads through time with different feet, different faces, and different fangs. Indeed, if we include African werehyenas, shamanist animal totems, Egyptian theriocephalic creatures such as Ra, and the hybrids found in cave paintings, it can be argued that this myth has been following us throughout human history.

Many cultures have embraced the dream of acquiring animal traits to enhance the human condition – the eyes of an eagle, the power of a tiger, the survivability of reptiles. This magic has been celebrated in our arts as a means to co-exist with hostile environments as well as to provide a vehicle into other levels of existence such as meditative journey or an afterlife.

Religion has provided explanation for many a confusing thing, but what forces are at play when the human psyche snaps?