welcome-to-monster-land.blogspot.com has an interesting article about female sexuality and the werewolf in this book, Jeanette writes:

Frederick Marryat’s “The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains” is a unique literary piece that stands out amidst the vast body of work of an author most known for pioneering the genre of the sea story. Excised from Marryat’s novel The Phantom Ship (1839) and published separately as “The White Wolf” it features the first appearance of the female werewolf in Victorian literature.

It tells the story of Krantz, a fugitive serf who flees from his native land of Transylvania with his three children after murdering his wife and her lover. Krantz finds refuge in the Hartz Mountains and later marries a beautiful stranger, Christina, with flaxen hair and shiny teeth. Inexplicably, the three children intensely fear their stepmother, who leaves the cottage one night accompanied by the howl of a wolf at their bedroom window.

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Wow, this book sounds brutally violent but I guess that’s no surprise. Based on this review, does the book interest you? why or why not?