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The Wolf Leader: A New Translation
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 11 2025
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the Dark Heart of the Forest, Every Wish Has a Price
Deep in the ancient forest of Retz, where wolves prowl beneath towering oaks and the nobility hunt while peasants starve, Thibault the shoemaker nurses his rage. When he dares to interfere with the Lord of Vez's hunting party, the nobleman's gamekeeper beats him bloody and leaves him for dead among the trees.
But the forest holds darker powers than any lord.
From the shadows emerges a massive black wolf, walking upright on its hind legs like a man. It speaks with a voice older than the trees themselves, and it offers Thibault everything he's ever desired: revenge, power, the ability to strike down his enemies with a single wish. The price? One hair from his head for each curse fulfilled. A bargain sealed with an exchange of rings.
Thibault accepts.
His first wishes bring swift vengeance-the gamekeeper dies, the lord suffers. But with each fulfilled curse, Thibault's hair grows long and fiery red, and the wolves of the forest answer to his command. The villagers whisper a terrible word: werewolf. As his power grows, so does the horror of what he's becoming. Each wish granted twists back upon him in ways he never imagined, and the pack of wolves that follows him grows larger with every dark desire.
Set in 1780s France, in the very forests where Alexandre Dumas played as a boy, The Wolf Leader is a chilling tale of Faustian bargain and supernatural revenge. Based on folktales Dumas heard from a local gamekeeper, this forgotten masterpiece weaves dark fantasy with biting social commentary, exploring the terrible cost of envy and the monstrous transformation that awaits those who sell their souls for vengeance.
One of the first werewolf novels ever written-a gothic horror from the master of adventure that proves Dumas's genius extended far beyond the swashbuckling tales that made him famous.
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