The Howling
Cover of The Howling
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| Author | Gary Brandner |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Howling |
| Subject | Werewolves |
| Genre | Horror novel |
| Publisher | Fawcett (1986 reissue) |
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1977 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| ISBN | (1986 reissue) |
| OCLC | 17204958 |
| Followed by | The Howling II |
The Howling is a 1977 horror novel by Gary Brandner. It was the inspiration for the movie The Howling (1981), although the plot of the movie was only vaguely similar to that of the book.
Brandner published two sequels of the novel, The Howling II during 1979 (later republished as Return of the Howling) and The Howling III: Echoes during 1985. Neither sequel was used as the basis for any of the subsequent Howling movies that includes Howling IV: The Original Nightmare, Howling V: The Rebirth, Howling VI: The Freaks and Howling: New Moon Rising.
The fourth movie of the series, Howling IV: The Original Nightmare made during 1988 is the closest adaptation of Brandner's original 1977 Howling novel, though even this differs in parts.
When middle-class Karyn Beatty is attacked and raped in her Los Angeles home, she suffers a miscarriage and a nervous breakdown. She and her husband, Roy, leave the city and go to stay in the secluded California mountain village of Drago while Karyn recuperates. Although the town offers Karyn a quiet lifestyle and the locals are friendly, Karyn is disturbed when she continues to hear a strange howling sound at night coming from the woods outside of their new home. This further disrupts her marriage as Roy believes she is becoming more and more unstable, but Karyn is adamant that there is something in the woods.
As tension between the couple increases, Roy begins an affair with one of the local women, a shopkeeper named Marcia Lura. However, on his way home, Roy is attacked in the woods by a large black wolf. Though the wolf only bites him, Roy becomes sick for several days. He was bitten by a werewolf, and has now become one himself. Karyn eventually discovers that the town's entire population are all actually werewolves, and becomes trapped in Drago. She contacts her husband's best friend, Chris Halloran, who comes up from Los Angeles to rescue her. Chris arrives with some silver bullets which he had made at her insistence.
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