{"collection":"myth-cosmogony","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_33730/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_33730","id":"gutenberg_33730","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33730","summary":null,"tags":["Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore","Category: Poetry","Werewolves -- Poetry"],"text":"Produced by Greg Weeks and the Online Distributed\nProofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLycanthropus\n\nBy C. EDGAR BOLEN\n\n\n  The jellied night has oozed its miry black\n    From out the hills to fill the valley floor.\n  Atop the ragged hills the torn cloud-wrack\n    Is lightning-limned into a hellish door.\n      A gust of wind across the sky is hurled--\n      The gods of old are loosed upon the world.\n\n  Age-old, the blood-lust wells within my throat;\n    Tensely I wait, and feel my body shrink;\n  My hairless hide becomes a furry coat.\n    Blood-hungry, through the opened door I slink;\n      I raise my head and howl in horrid glee--\n      And from the plain a howl comes back to me.\n\n\n\n\nTRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: This etext was produced from Weird Tales\nAugust-September 1936. Extensive research did not uncover any\nevidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.","title":"Lycanthropus","tradition":"myth-cosmogony","translated_text":null,"word_count":140}