“The moon was obscured by heavy clouds. January was already past the mid-mark and the early delta spring would soon be on them. Already on the night was the faint, fresh smell of buddings and the intimacy that comes from the warm delta air trapped between slumbering earth and lowering clouds.” ― Leslie H. Whitten Jr., Moon of the Wolf/5. MOON OF THE WOLF. by Leslie H. Whitten ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 18, This hoodoo-dunit takes place in Mississippi in the '30's so that old superstitions can be even more dangerous than prejudices and where a Negro girl, a ""good girl"" studying to be a nurse is found murdered and strangely savaged. Her brother mutters West Indian Author: Leslie H. Whitten. · Leslie Whitten's book makes a modern use of the phrase "when the wolfsbane blooms/And the moon and is full and bright.". Whitten wrote one of the most interesting takes on the werewolf legend with his Southern Gothic novel Moon of the Wolf (). In it we get a combination of a murder mystery and an exploration of lycanthropy from a.
Also the sheriff played by David Janssen is practically useless in the last ten minutes. This reduces the movie from very good to just a better than average werewolf movie. The average in this genre being pretty bad. The book by Leslie Whitten upon which the movie is based does it much better. 3. Bane County: Forgotten Moon (Book 1) by. J.R. Rice (Goodreads Author) avg rating — ratings. score: , and 7 people voted. Want to Read. Moon of the Wolf is an American made-for-television Gothic horror film first broadcast on Septem, on ABC Movie of the Week. It starred David Janssen, Barbara Rush, Geoffrey Lewis and Bradford Dillman, with a script by Alvin Sapinsley (based on Leslie H. Whitten's novel of the same name).
out of 5 starsIt Is So Like All Of The Old Werewolf Books. Reviewed in the United States on August 4, The book is only pages but that was too long. It is so like the old werewolf books, because it is of course, but that made for a lot of unnecessary description action to get to the end where you know who the werewolf is. His Gothic horror novel Moon of the Wolf became a made-for-television film, also called Moon of the Wolf, broadcast in Personal and death. On Novem, Whitten married Phyllis Webber (born August 6, ) in Paris. The couple had three sons. The Whittens were active in the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, DC. Moon of the Wolf is an American TV movie broadcast on Septem on ABC Movie of the Week. It stars David Janssen, Barbara Rush, Geoffrey Lewis and Bradford Dillman, with a script by Alvin Sapinsley (based on Leslie H. Whitten's novel of the same name).
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