AJ Dunn Reads

 Cycle of the Werewolf by Stephen King This might be one of those rare instances in which the film adaptation is better than the original book. Cycle of the Werewolf is about the small town of Tarker's Mills during its one-year struggle with a werewolf that has beset the town with a monthly killing. The book's structure is divided into months, from January to December on and around the full moon of each month, and is told in third person following one person's encounter with the beast in each chapter, with only a few recurring characters. The main one being a paraplegic ten-year-old boy named Marty Coslaw. Several people are killed as the werewolf stalks the town. During the fourth of July Marty encounters the beast in his backyard, wounding it in the eye. No one else in the town believes Marty's story, but Marty knows that whoever has a missing eye is likely the beast. It turns out that someone in town does, in fact, wear an eye patch, and Marty starts sending letters...