By The Light of the Full Moon: Werewolf Fiction

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Night of the Wolf / by Alice Borchardt
The year is 350 AD. As Roman forces sweep across barbarian lands, a battle of another kind culminates when a rogue werewolf named Manael is confronted by Dryas, a wicked Druid priestess bent on wiping out Manael and the rest of his kind. Borchardt (Anne Rice’s sister) wrote this prequel to accompany her first werewolf novel The Silver Wolf, a story in which a fledgling female werewolf named Reagan fights to preserve her heritage during Europe’s Dark Ages.
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High Bloods / by John Farris
With LA in the near-future steadily succumbing to a werewolf epidemic, humans have formed Lycan Control, a militaristic effort to oppose werewolves and prevent further carnage and destruction. But with the hoard of werewolves ("human 28 days out of the month but ravenous under a full moon") increasing daily, will Lycan Control have time to execute its mission before its too late.
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The Wolfen / by Whitley Streiber
When two New York City police officers are viciously attacked and brutally mutilated, the detectives assigned to the case steadily begin to suspect the culprit(s) to be from a pack of wolf-like creatures recently having been spotted in the area. But these “beings” which stalk the city by night are smarter than they look and are all too eager to savagely prey on those who try to eliminate them.
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The Nightwalker / by Thomas Tessier
As a Vietnam veteran, Bobby Ives still experiences combat flashbacks in addition to memories associated with a possible past life. After a night of roughousing, Bobby begins feeling strange and soon afterwards comes to the realization that his ‘self’ (both body and soul) is transforming into a werewolf. In desperation and with time running out, Bobby starts seeking for a reversal treatment.
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The Sacred Book of the Werewolf / by Viktor Pelevin; trans. By Andrew Bromfield
On the streets of modern-day Moscow a 2,000-year-old werefox named Hu-li masquerades as an underaged prostitute preying on the ‘life energy’ of unsuspecting men. But when Hu-Li meets Alexander, a werewolf disguised as a Russian intelligence officer, her predatory lifestyle is challenged by new feelings for the handsome lycan and his oddly appealing philosophical values.

The Wolfman / by Nickolas Pekearo

Not too many novelists are volunteer police officers in their spare time. But that's exactly what Nicholas Pekearo, a budding author already having penned his first novel at 28, was doing when his life was tragically cut short. A member of the NYPD Auxiliary Police Force, Pekearo was working the beat in the very neighborhood where he grew up, Greenwich Village, when he was suddenly gunned down in the street after a botched robbery. His novel, The Wolfman, is narrated by a drifter werewolf who, though a sympathyzing individual, has no choice but to prey on those around him.
 Marlowe Higgins isn't who he pretends to be. He's not even what he pretends to be. A bit of a drifter since his combat days in 'Nam, Higgins currently resides in a sleepy middle-american town (in one of the "fly-over" states) working as a short-order cook by day and spending his nights, at least those under a full moon, mindlessly seeking to devour unsuspecting victims. His condition irreversible (a family blood curse damning him to his situation), Higgins can't help but be consumed with remorse for the countless innocent lives he's claimed--memories and internal characteristics of the slain permanently inhabiting his soul long after the act is perpetrated. In an effort to alleviate his guilt, Higgins secretly acts as an amateur detective tracking vicious crimes that have gone unsolved by the police and consequently targeting the perpetrators of said crimes while in lycan mode, tricking his "inner-wolf" into pursuing the deserving criminals.

Pekearo's skill at making Higgins both believable and sympathetic is a considerable achievement, all the more so considering the novel's crossover appeal. The twist involving the town's police detective Daniel Pearce, Higgins' only real friend, is an extremely clever plot device and Higgins’ gruff, hard-boiled demeanor makes him appealing as both a werewolf and amateur sleuth. Werewolf novels in general are underrepresented in fiction, but books like this present a worthy standard for others to follow. This novel's deceased author had quite a lot of potential. (FIC PEKEARO)