Bite Me: 25 Authors Who Write About Werewolves

Sink your teeth into some good werewolf fiction…

There’s certainly a history for werewolf fiction. Granted, there’s no literary foundation for monstrous stories about werewolves. (No equivalent book like Frankenstein by Mary Shelley or Dracula by Bram Stoker or Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.)

But classic examples of werewolves (and similar shapeshifters) go back to mythology as well as folklore, fairy tales, Gothic fiction and the like. And, of course, more recent examples come from classic lit, movies, games and more.

Below, find some more modern examples from horror and fantasy authors...

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Page being revised April 2025. (Still a work in progress.)

01 Jessica Cage

• The Alpha Series

• Hybrid Tales

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02 Jonathan Maberry

• Beneath the Skin: The Sam Hunter Case Files

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03 Nalini Singh

• Psy/Changeling Series

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04 Patricia Briggs

• The Mercy Thompson Series

• Alpha & Omega Series

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05 Micheline Hess

• Diary of a Mad, Black Werewolf

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06 Gail Carriger

• The Parasol Protectorate

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07 Owl Goingback

• VIPs making horror comics: Owl Goingback, Creepshow, Bruce Campbell

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08 Maggie Stiefvater

• The Wolves of Mercy Falls Series

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09 Lindsay Buroker

• A Witch in Wolf Wood series

• Magnetic Magic series

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10 Carrie Vaughn

• Kitty Norville Series

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11 Quinn Loftis

• The Grey Wolves Series

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12 Kelley Armstrong

• Otherworld Series

• Otherworld: Kate & Logan

• The Darkest Powers Series

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13 Glen Duncan

• The Last Werewolf / Bloodlines Trilogy

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14 Charlaine Harris

• Sookie Stackhouse (Southern Vampire) Series

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15 Carole Nelson Douglas

• Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator

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16 R.L Stine

• Goosebumps Series

  • The Werewolf of Fever Swamp

  • Werewolf Skin

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17 Shannon Delany

• 13 to Life Series

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18 Sherrilyn Kenyon

• Dark-Hunter Series (including Were-Hunter Series)

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19 Cheree Alsop

• Werewolf Academy

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20 Whitley Strieber

• Wolfen

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21 Rachel Harrison

• Such Sharp Teeth: A Werewolf Novel 

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22 Laurell K. Hamilton

• Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter Series

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23 August Hill

• Division X

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24 L.A. Banks (1959-2011)

• Crimson Moon Series

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25 Anne Rice (1941-2021)

• The Wolf Gift Chronicles

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