Werewolf [Dramatized Adaptation]

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By: Max Brand

Narrated by: full cast, Terence Aselford, Mort Shelby, Ken Jackson, Alexander Strain, Thomas Keegan, Tim Carlin, Colleen Delany, Scott McCormick, Michael Glenn, Nanette Savard, Tony Nam

Werewolf by Max Brand in Western Story Magazine (12/18/26) involves just such an inward journey for Christopher Royal, who is convinced he is a coward and flees a confrontation with Harry Main, who is a gunfighter.

There comes a time in this story - when Christopher encounters the aged Indian, the old wise man - that the terrain shimmers with the multiple affinities of meaning conjured by the unconscious, which Vergil once sought to capture within an image both awesome and sinister: numina magna deum [the great divine power of a god].

Performed by Terence Aselford, Mort Shelby, Ken Jackson, Alexander Strain, Thomas Keegan, Tim Carlin, Colleen Delany, Scott McCormick, Michael Glenn, Nanette Savard, Tony Nam, Elizabeth Jernigan, Joe Brack, David Coyne, Richard Rohan, Tim Getman, Christopher Graybill, Danny Gavigan, Drew Kopas, Michael John Casey, Alyssa Wilmoth, Richard Cutting, Gary Telles, Kimberly Gilbert, Evan Casey.

©2013 Golden West Literary Agency (P)2013 Graphic Audio, LLC

Classic short story

This is one of Max Brands’ best short stories. I heard this story about 25 years ago. The dramatization is decent, but the story is good. I like the slightly ghostly tale it tells.