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Call To The Hunt by Steven E. Wedel
01/09/2005 . Source: Donna Jones 
pub: Scrybe Press. 93 page enlarged paperback. Price: $10.00 (US). ISBN: 1-933275-05-0. Buy from Amazon US - Buy from Amazon UK
nb: US titles may only be available from Amazon US, and UK titles from Amazon UK. check out website: www.scrybepress.com and www.stevenewedel.com
Steven E. Wedel has a passion and his is the cry of a wolf, a cry unlike any other wolf. A call to the hunt, an inclination to run, a desire stronger than love or hate...The wildness of werewolves.
This anthology brings together his short stories that follow the double-lives of his werewolf characters. It crosses time frames by starting on a Pilgrim Fathers ship entering the New World. The finding of the Native Americans, the independence of America from the British, right up to present day.
As the introduction by Kelley Armstrong quite rightly states we have in recent years become 'vampire obsessed' leaving our lycanthropic friends out in the cold. Wedel writes believable stories that are effective with their imagery. He uses recurring characters to tell an ongoing story of how the werewolves survive and deal with living amongst their human counterparts.
I enjoyed this anthology. It was unusual in the way it followed one character and the different exploits through the life and times of Ulrik. Re-occurring characters added a little spice to the whole collection and made it very accessible reading.
I had a couple of favoured stories, one being 'Sunday Dentistry'. Always bear in mind if you receive the useful monthly gift, try not to let your teeth rot. Silver fillings are a bit of a drag, a mortal one at that!
I thought 'Of Werewolves And Witches', set in the era of the Salem witch trials of America was not only disturbing, but had a satisfyingly sick ending which sorted out the worst woman in the village!
The only story that I wasn't that sure of was 'Kiss Of The Wolf'. It was fundamentally a good story, a hot steamy foreplay between a man and a woman at a party that just happens to involve a male werewolf. He goes a little too far and starts to bite her, which can lead to the curse. The character we have been following is something of the Alpha male in the werewolf pack and he finds them and sorts out the situation. Fundamentally a good story, well told even with images of a sexual nature, which by the way I never say no to. But the problem I had with it was one of reference to the introduction of the book, in which as you'll remember Kelley Armstrong says we are over-subscribed to the vampire scene. The problem then was one of dipping its wolfy toes in a vampiric style of story. Do you want the gift? No! Then I'll have to kill you before your eyebrows form into one and you start baying at the moon! It's a little too close to let me bite your neck, would you like to sup on my blood now? No, then I'll kill you. You see my point, right?
Overall, much enjoyment was had. It was fresh and wholesome, in a canine-pointy-toothed kind of way!
Donna Jones
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