Gary Brandner, author of horror novels, in the 1970s. The screen treatment was part of an apparent werewolf trend that year in which audiences could also buy tickets to “An American Werewolf in London” and “Wolfen.” The book was made into a hit 1981 movie, directed by Joe Dante and with a script written by John Sayles and Terence Winkless. “ ‘The Howling’ is one of these, partly because Brandner constructed a tight, suspenseful plot, partly because he hit upon a novel idea.”
James Guide to Horror, Ghost and Gothic Writers. “Even with the flood of horror fiction that has been published in the last two decades, there are very few novels of lycanthropy that stand out,” according to the St. The husband is seduced by a female colony member and then turned into a werewolf. A reporter, recovering from a mental breakdown, stumbles onto the colony after she and her husband visit the town for a getaway.
In the first installment of “The Howling,” published in 1977, a werewolf colony lives in a small town in California, covertly hiding their carnivore lifestyles among the human population. The cause was esophageal cancer, said his wife, Martine Wood. Gary Brandner, a horror novelist whose trilogy about “The Howling” gave werewolf enthusiasts much to salivate over and inspired the popular fright film series of the same name, died Sept. 22 at his home in Reno, Nev.
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