"A Brief History Of Vampires Werewolves In Ireland The United Kingdom And Some Of Europe" Article Citation by Fred Abbott in BookRiot UK

 

Last December Fred Abbott, an investigator of vampire and Werewolf lore in the UK, published an interesting article on the origins of poems, short stories, and novels in these important horror genres. It is a quick read, but one that is informative, nonetheless. Here is a link.

Mr. Abbott published it for BookRiot UK after reading The Best Werewolf Short Stories 1800-1849 Anthology that I edited. He references the anthology as a place to read Catherine Crowe's "The Story of a Weir-Wolf" published in 1846 and that appears to be the first werewolf story by a woman.

The Best Werewolf Short Stories 1800-1849 Anthology contains many other first-of-their-kind werewolf short stories. If interested, your best bet is to order it off Amazon.

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Who was the First Woman to Write a Werewolf Short Story?

Who was the first female to write a werewolf short story in the English language? In researching my anthology Shifters: The Best Werewolf Short Stories 1800-1849 I uncovered a tale by Catherine Crowe (1790-1872). She called it "A Story of a Weir-Wolf" and published it in 1846. Despite the rather boring title, its a fine lycan tale. At first she appears to be the first woman to write a werewolf story in the English language, but them I remembered that "Hugues the Wer-Wolf: A Kentish Legend of the Middle Ages" was attributed to Sutherland Menzies (1806-1883). That tale was published eight years before Crowe's story. There are some who believe Menzies was a pen-name for Mrs. Elizabeth Stone. If so, she was the first woman to pen a lycan story.