"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
A werewolf story by Alexandre Dumas père. Chapter XIV: A Village Wedding He had made but a few steps within the forest, when he found himself surrounded by his wolves. He was pleased to see them again; he slackened his pace; he called to them; and the wolves...
Oh. My. God.How come this novel isn't up there alongside Ph. K. Dick, Asimov, and the rest of the greatest sci-fi works of our time? Oh, yeah, it might be because it talks about violence over a woman. This anxious, delicate masterpiece follows an unreliable, possibly schizophrenic...
A werewolf story by Alexandre Dumas père. Chapter XIII: Where it is demonstrated that a Woman never speaks more eloquently than when she holds her tongue As Thibault was talking to himself he did not catch the few hurried words which Suzanne whispered to the Baron; and all...
A werewolf story by Alexandre Dumas père. Chapter XII: Wolves in the Sheep Fold The forest was not far from the Bailiff's house, and in two bounds Thibault found himself on the further side of Les Fosses, and in the wooded path leading to the brickyard. He had...
A werewolf story by Alexandre Dumas père. Chapter XI: David and Goliath After walking the whole length of the village, they stopped before an imposing looking house at the junction of the roads leading to Longpre and Haraniont. As they neared the house the little host, with all...
Last week, I pursued the general hype and went to our local theatre to see a contemporary Opera inspired by Umberto Eco's Name of the Rose, one of my favourite books of all time. And though it was mostly inspired by the 1986 movie, it...
A werewolf story by Alexandre Dumas père. Chapter X: Maitre Magloire In this reckless state of mind Thibault, who had not as yet decided on any special course of action, spent the last days of the old year and the first of the new. Still, remembering the...
A werewolf story by Alexandre Dumas père. Chapter IX: The Wolf-Leader Thibault, fleeing from Madame Polet's threats and her farm servants' weapons, turned instinctively towards the forest, thinking to take shelter within it should he chance to come across one of the enemy, for he knew that...
A werewolf story by Alexandre Dumas père. Chapter VIII: Thibault's Wishes The widow, on perceiving the effect which the sight of the soldiers advancing towards the mill had upon Landry, was almost as frightened as the lad himself. "Ah, dear God!" she cried, "what is the matter, my poor...
A werewolf story by Alexandre Dumas père. Chapter VII: The Boy at the Mill Finding it impossible either to cut off or pull out the accursed hair, the only thing left for Thibault to do was to hide it as well as he could, by bringing the...
