Category: The Wolf’s Hour

Several years ago, twins Bradley and Kevin Marcus optioned the film rights to The Wolf’s Hour. They’ve spent the years writing a script and pitching it to many people in Hollywood. Finally, Hollywood news site Deadline.com has just posted this exciting news!

Universal, Chris Morgan Howl For ‘The Wolf’s Hour’

 

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has acquired the Robert McCammon novel The Wolf’s Hour for Chris Morgan and Emile Gladstone to produce through their Universal-based Chris Morgan Productions banner. While Universal has done several werewolf films since launching the classic from its original movie monster library, this is a different take on the legend and it comes with a screenplay. The novel focuses around a man who is recruited by the Allies in WWII specifically for his ability to go werewolf. He’s charged with stopping a Nazi plot to drop poison gas on England, and at the same time he searches for his long lost blood brother.

The script was written by Bradley and Kevin Marcus. The Marcus brothers optioned the 1989 novel themselves, and took the time to flesh out a script that sparked Morgan and Gladstone after CMP exec Ainsley Davies brought it in. Morgan is working on the revamped Fast & Furious 7 film which goes back in production for Universal. CMP is repped by ICM Partners, and the scribes are repped by Resolution and Zero Gravity Management. Production veep Anikah McLaren will oversee for Universal.

 

As with all things Hollywood, time will tell if the film gets made, but this is the farthest any movie based on a McCammon novel has gotten at a major studio! Congratulations to Brad and Kevin for their diligence over the years!

Speaks the Nightbird ebook

The ebook editions of Speaks the Nightbird are available for pre-ordering now! The ebook will be released on Tuesday, October 8, 2013. You can pre-order the book now from Amazon (Kindle), Barnes & Noble (NOOK), and Kobo.com. Those are the U.S. links; the Speaks the Nightbird ebook will be available everywhere, including Amazon UK and Amazon CA.)

Polish publisher Wydawnictwo Papierowy Księżyc is releasing Łabędzi śpiew, a new translation of Swan Song, as a two-volume trade paperback. The first volume will be published on October 16, 2013, and the second volume will follow on November 13, 2013. The fantastic covers for the books have been added to the Book Cover Gallery. Click on the images below to view larger versions of the covers.

Several reviews and other mentions have popped up around the ‘net in the past couple of weeks, including several related to The Wolf’s Hour!

Other recent posts:

first-fourOn October 15, 2013, Audible will release new, unabridged audiobook recordings of Robert McCammon’s first four books: Baal, Bethany’s Sin, The Night Boat, and They Thirst! (The pre-order link for Baal is active now, but has the wrong release date.) Baal will be narrated by Ray Porter, who has appeared in numerous TV series and movies and narrated Jonathan Maberry’s Joe Ledger books, among others; the other narrators, if there are any, haven’t been announced yet.

A couple of new reviews have popped up recently:

And for those of you in Indianapolis area, the Indianapolis Book Club will be discussing Robert McCammon’s Speaks the Nightbird at their meeting on Thursday, September 19, 2013.

Robert McCammon’s The Wolf’s Hour makes the list in the Barnes & Noble Book Blog post “5 Must-Read Werewolf Novels.” The Wolf’s Hour is available in various ebook formats.

The Quote of the Day comes from James Roy Daley of Books of the Dead Press:

I’m a huge fan of Robert McCammon. My favorite is Boy’s Life. I’ve read it a number of times and I always think, If this book went on forever, I would read it forever.

The July 2013 issue of The New York Review of Science Fiction includes a two-page essay by Mike Barrett entitled “The Time of the Wolf: Robert McCammon’s Werewolf Tales.” You can see the Table of Contents and purchase a digital copy of the magazine from the NYRSF web site.

Wayne C. Rogers reviewed The Five for HorrorNovelReviews.com. Don’t forget that The Five will be released in a mass-market paperback edition from Tor on November 26, 2013!

Alice Keezer recently reviewed the audiobook edition of Swan Song, narrated by Tom Stechschulte. The Swan Song audiobook is available through Audible.com, on CD from Amazon, and on MP3 CD from Amazon.

David Agronoff also reviewed Swan Song in his countdown of his ten favorite horror novels.

Blogger Peggy at RampantBiblioholism challenged her small town to out-read her this summer. She posted about the books she’s read this summer, including Boy’s Life (“EVERYBODY needs to read this book”) and Swan Song (“…a huge, sprawling, epic post-apocalyptic story with a lot of points to make”).

DeviantArt member Hurriicanee did an illustration based on Boy’s Life. You can see it in the Fan Artwork Gallery.

As some of you have noticed, Swan Song is no longer in-print. The print rights to the book have reverted back to Robert McCammon. Hopefully a new publisher will pick up the book soon. I’ll keep you posted. But if you’ve wondered why it can’t be ordered and why copies of the trade paperback are selling for $40 or more on Amazon, that’s why. There are, of course, still copies available on third-party and used markets.

And I’ll leave you with this fun photo of Robert McCammon taken by his daughter Skye at FandomFest in Louisville, KY, a couple of weekends ago.

Thanks to artist Vincent Chong, T-shirts featuring the cover art for the Subterranean Press editions of The Wolf’s Hour and The Hunter from the Woods are now available in the Robert McCammon’s Worlds shop at Spreadshirt! They join shirts featuring the logo for The Five and the covers for Mister Slaughter and The Providence Rider.

wolf-shirtsThe purpose of the shirts is simply to help promote Robert McCammon’s work. In order to keep the costs down, no profit is made from these shirts; the prices shown are the actual costs of the shirts from Spreadshirt.com. A variety of shirt types, colors, and sizes are available.

Robert McCammon T-shirts at Spreadshirt.com

Note that the printing and shipping of the shirts is handled entirely by Spreadshirt. In my experience, it takes about 7 to 10 days for U.S. orders to be delivered.

If you purchase today, July 24, 2013, you can get free standard shipping with the coupon code XMASINJULY.

If you purchase between July 30 through August 6, you can get $10 off any order of $50 or more using the coupon code TENOFF.

 

 

From Subterranean Press:

The Hunter from the Woods by Robert McCammon

The trade hardcover of Robert McCammon’s The Hunter from the Woods is out now. If you’ve been wondering what Michael Gallatin has been up to since the classic novel, The Wolf’s Hour, now’s your chance to check in with this WWII era lycanthrope in a series of short stories in novellas.

Trade: $35

The book is also available in various ebook formats, as well as a dramatized audio format from GraphicAudio.

GraphicAudio has just released their audio dramatization of The Hunter from the Woods, the followup to 1989’s The Wolf’s Hour. In addition, all three parts of their audio dramatization of The Wolf’s Hour are also now available. Samples from each production can be found on their website. GraphicAudio uses a combination of narrator, actors, and sound effects to bring the audiobooks to life.

Order The Hunter from the Woods from GraphicAudio

See all Robert McCammon titles at GraphicAudio

 

Elitist book reviews has posted a brand-new interview with Robert McCammon.

Author Charles L. Mashburn has posted Doors, a poem he wrote that was inspired by Robert McCammon’s The Wolf’s Hour.

And here are a few links to reviews and other recent posts:

GraphicAudio has updated their website with new release dates for their audio adaptations of The Wolf’s Hour and The Hunter from the Woods. GraphicAudio produces audiobooks that combine a narrator with cinematic music, sound effects, and a full cast of actors.

Both releases will be available in MP3 and CD formats.  The Wolf’s Hour will be released in three parts: part 1 is out now, part 2 is currently slated for August 13th, and the final part should be out in September.  The Hunter from the Woods will then follow in October.  You can listen to a sample from The Wolf’s Hour here.

Click here to see all of the Robert McCammon GraphicAudio audiobooks. The audiobooks will also be available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.