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The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan
The last of his kind walks the modern world with a poet’s tongue and a predator’s hunger, confronting love, memory, and extinction. The Last Werewolf blends literary elegance with dark fantasy in a lush, provocative howl of a novel.
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In The Last Werewolf, did you enjoy ...
... a sensual, amoral monster’s confessional voice?
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
If what hooked you in The Last Werewolf was Jake Marlowe’s seductively candid, often cruel self-accounting as the last of his kind—his hedonism, his rationalizations, his weary wit—you’ll love Louis’s long night of confession in Interview with the Vampire. Like Jake dodging WOCOP and baiting Grainer, Louis wrestles with what it means to keep killing to go on living, all while telling you the truth as only a monster can: beautifully, persuasively, and with blood still on his hands.
... unflinching, bloody tragedy entwined with guilt and fate?
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
You liked how The Last Werewolf never flinched—from Jake’s feral transformations to the brutal reckonings that follow him across continents. The Only Good Indians delivers that same relentless, flesh-and-bone intensity: four men are haunted by what they did long ago, and the vengeance that hunts them is as inevitable and intimate as Jake’s own doom shadowing him after Talulla enters his life.
... sardonic, blackly comic narration amid gore and the occult underworld?
The Devil You Know by Mike Carey
If Jake’s gallows humor—wisecracks even as WOCOP closes in and bodies drop—was your sweet spot, Felix Castor’s voice in The Devil You Know will feel like coming home. Castor wisecracks his way through exorcisms in a grimy London where the dead won’t stay put; the jokes are as sharp as the claws, and the stakes bite down just as hard as Jake’s late-night hunts.
... existential ruminations from a predatory shapeshifter questioning meaning and desire?
The Sacred Book of the Werewolf by Victor Pelevin
Jake’s brooding reflections on extinction, appetite, and what a long life adds up to—right between sex, blood, and near-misses with Grainer—are mirrored in Pelevin’s fox spirit narrator in The Sacred Book of the Werewolf. It’s sly, heady, and sensual: a predator philosophizing about identity and longing while navigating human power games, much like Jake weighs his urges against the thin thread of purpose Talulla offers.
... lush, lyrical first-person confession that blurs reality and myth?
The Drowning Girl by Caitlín R. Kiernan
If the luxuriant, opulent prose of The Last Werewolf drew you in—Jake’s baroque turns of phrase even as he tears and is torn—then Imp’s intimate, haunted narration in The Drowning Girl will mesmerize you. Like Jake’s confessional recounting of pursuit and love with Talulla, Imp’s story tangles memory, art, and ghostly possibility into a gorgeous, unsettling spell you’ll read as much for the sentences as the scares.
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