Feral: A Novel of Werewolf Horror

Feral is a Werewolf & Shifter Thrillers novel by Matt Serafini. Read summary below.

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Feral: A Novel of Werewolf Horror Summary

There’s a thin line between animal and man. A line that’s about to be crossed.

Jack and Allen need a break. They’ve decided to spend the summer before their senior year of college out in Western Massachusetts. But their quest for rest and relaxation comes to an end when they arrive in Greifsfield, MA. Their friendship is tested by a mysterious beauty and her razor sharp smile, then broken when they’re caught up in a rash of mysterious disappearances. How will these two friends cope with the truth behind a town that craves raw meat? And how will they survive beneath the glow of the full moon?

Werewolves are real and there’s no such thing as escape. This vacation’s about to get a little hairy.

The Howling meets 30 Days of Night in this furious, lightning blast of a novel.

“An ambitious, balls-to-the-wall werewolf extravaganza. You can feel the lifetime of passion for horror in every paragraph.” – Horror Drive-In

“A cool new werewolf tale.” – Bloody Disgusting

“Never has a book’s title been more appropriate. Feral is all gnashing teeth and animal stink. It is just what your veterinarian ordered if you caught fleas from the litany of bad, toothless werewolf books on the market.” —Adam Cesare, author of Video Night and The Con Season

READ; Natural Witch (Demon Days, Vampire Nights World)

Feral: A Novel of Werewolf Horror Review

Daniel Baker

5.0 out of 5 stars Werewolf Fiction as it Should be
Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2020

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This is the way werewolf fiction should read!!!! Almost every werewolf book I’ve ever read has left me with some nagging concerns. You know the ones I mean. It would’ve been better if…I would’ve liked it if…the writer would’ve been better served if… That’s right. It’s a nagging sense of incompleteness. There’s just something missing (or sometimes a lot of somethings). For dedicated fans of werewolf fiction (a sparsely populated subgenre) most of the books we read leave us coming away saying “damn, I could’ve written a better book than that.”

Not so with Serafini’s Feral. The book has everything: A handful of dimwitted college friends who have no idea what they’ve gotten themselves into; a merciless anti-heroine who rediscovers her humanity, despite the fact that – you guessed it – she ain’t quite human anymore; a capitalist villain who has plans for world domination; and a lot more.

Perhaps the best touch is the inclusion of a secretive organization of werewolf exterminators. Serafini has finally gotten down to brass tasks and provided what so many of us have been waiting for: Werewolf-hunting operatives armed with enough incendiary devices to blow up a whole town and automatic weapons full of silver bullets.

What kind of an organization do our werewolf exterminators belong to, exactly? It’s hard to say. There’s lots of silver, lots of weapons, and lots of money. It appears to be headquartered in California, at least in the US. Worldwide? Who knows. There are a couple of references to a priest, and one reference to the Vatican. Their resources appear to be endless and they have access to hidden histories that the bulk of humanity never knew about, or has forgotten.

Feral is a blissfully original story, but it does hold to genre conventions. It’s safe to say it owes a debt of gratitude to Brandner, Sayles, and Dante (if you don’t know what this means you need to re-evaluate your werewolf fanhood). I’d say it was also inspired by Steakley’s Vampire$ and its film adaptation by John Carpenter, and that if weren’t for Marvel’s Blade comics we might not have the book we do.

But most of all we have to thank Serafini. I can only imagine he’s found himself reading too many werewolf books saying it would’ve been better if…I would’ve liked it if…the writer would’ve been better served if…if…if…if. Did Serafini reach for the next werewolf book hoping that one possessed what so many others lack? No, instead he set about writing his own story, and in that he’s given us the first proper werewolf literature in a long time.

We finally have a writer in Serafini who gets it. This is a contribution to werewolf literature worth remembering.

Call off the library cops, Serafini has given us the werewolf book that we’ve been waiting for and is long overdue.

About Matt Serafini Author Of Feral: A Novel of Werewolf Horror Book

Hailed as “one of the best new voices in horror fiction” by horror grandmaster Brian Keene, Matt Serafini is a screenwriter and author whose books include Rites of Extinction, Feral, and Under the Blade, which FilmThrills called “one of the best slasher films you’ll ever read.”

His short fiction has appeared in numerous anthology collections and he has written extensively on the subjects of film and literature for numerous websites including Dread Central and Shock Till You Drop. His nonfiction has appeared in the pages of Fangoria and HorrorHound. Matt lives on the East Coast with his wife and children.