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A basic werewolf story, to which King doesn't really bring anything new, even if he always has interesting characters. Once again an American small town works great in a horror novel, and when King sinks his teeth into the small town life, it's executed in such a way that I always keep coming back to get a fix of that certain atmosphere. Although the identity of the werewolf is easy to guess right at the beginning, this was still an entertaining snack. Even at his worst King is highly readable a
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Outdated bigoted language aside, it has a good pace and I liked the ending. The monthly stories weren't too predictable and the lengths were varied.
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Basically a novella consisting of short sections, one for each month, with illustrations. The town of Traker's Mills, Maine is being terrorized by a werewolf. Eventually the town accepts this and tries to stop it though only one resident knows the actual identity of the werewolf. The wolf attacks were scary. I think it would have been scarier if the story was expanded so readers had more connection to the victims. I liekd the illustrations but they didn't add a lot to the story for me.
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