The 30-year-old narrator of "Crackers for a Lycanthrope" returns to his former home in the deep woods of Kentucky after a decade of transient hiatus throughout Western Europe. The unannounced homecoming subjects him to an arcane legacy that is wrought with ecstasy & terror. After an agonizing incubation under the guidance of his blind & disfigured great-grandmother, the narrator is initiated into the realm of lycanthropy, where personal habits & urges become alarmingly bizarre & a recurrent nightmare shatters the fragile ...
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The 30-year-old narrator of "Crackers for a Lycanthrope" returns to his former home in the deep woods of Kentucky after a decade of transient hiatus throughout Western Europe. The unannounced homecoming subjects him to an arcane legacy that is wrought with ecstasy & terror. After an agonizing incubation under the guidance of his blind & disfigured great-grandmother, the narrator is initiated into the realm of lycanthropy, where personal habits & urges become alarmingly bizarre & a recurrent nightmare shatters the fragile equipose between delusion & reality. "Cracker for a Lycanthrope" is compromised of the dated journal entries that the narrator recorded both before & after his bestial conversion. The account chronicled within "Cracker for a Lycanthrope" is both graphic & poetic. The metaphysic depicted therein introduces a realism into the genre of horror that is as ominous as the literal translation of Kentucky itself: The Dark & Bloody Place.
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