The Wolf-Leader

Part local legend of a dark and dangerous Wolf-Leader part childhood memories of his home near Villers-Cotterets in Aisne Dumas here penned a chilling supernatural encounter between man and the devil. Our hero Thibault the shoemaker is beaten on the orders of the Lord of Vez for hunting in the lord's forest. With Thibault's resentment at his treatment by the world at its height the devil sees his chance and in the guise of a wolf proposes a deal which Thibault accepts; the ever available trade of one's soul for evil power. With a pack of demon possessed wolves at his command Thibault begins to explore his new power tentatively hesitant to do evil but unable to help himself the momentum of the tale grown in surprising and horrifying ways until the unexpected climax.