The Werewolf and His Boy: Warren Rochelle Reads in Charlottesville

In the last days of October 2016, a Charlottesville literary salon made room for a werewolf.

Warren Rochelle brought The Werewolf and His Boy to WriterHouse on October 29 for a reading and discussion. The University of Mary Washington, where he taught English, reported the occasion two days later. Before the reading and salon, he also taught a horror-writing seminar.

The university called the novel an October release. Rochelle’s earlier announcement had pointed to a September appearance from Samhain Publishing. The exact edition date is less settled than the gathering itself: by the end of October, the book was in front of a room of readers, with its author there to discuss it.

A horror seminar followed by a werewolf reading is a fitting double bill. One deals in how a writer makes dread work; the other gives that craft a particular monster and a particular set of characters. The old figure leaves the anonymous forest for an evening and becomes a story its maker can read aloud.

For the 2016 werewolf bookshelf, Rochelle’s Charlottesville appearance marks a small, tangible occasion: not a rumored animal, but a new novel finding its audience.

Sources

• The Eagle Eye (Univ. of Mary Washington) — “Rochelle Reads Latest Novel, Teaches Seminar on Horror Writing” (31 Oct 2016)
• Warren Rochelle — Goodreads announcement, “Forthcoming from Samhain… September 2016”