The Last Werewolf (2011) (edit title/settings)

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• Jake Marlowe: The narrator. He is the last known living werewolf, tired of running from The Hunt, and ready to pack it all in.
• Harley: Jake's friend and aide. He works for WOCOP, but is really spying for Jake to ensure that Jake can stay one step ahead of The Hunt. He is seventy years old and gay.
• Eric Grainer: Lead werewolf hunter for The Hunt. Has made it his personal mission to kill Jake, partly because Jake killed his father many years before.
• Madeline: A very high-priced prostitute Jake frequents.
• Ellis: Eric Grainer's protégé, and second in command of The Hunt.

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• “And in any case you don't give up. You love life because life's all there is. There's no God and that's His only Commandment.”

  Harley

• “All paradigm shifts answer the amoral craving for novelty. Obama's election victory did it. So did the Auschwitz footage in its day. Good and evil are irrelevant. Show us the world's not the way we thought it was and a part of us rejoices.”

• “You go where there's beauty. You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.”

  Marlowe

• “It's a ridiculous story, of course, but history's full of ridiculous stories. You can't make this shit up, one finds oneself saying, whenever the seemingly prosaic old world lifts the veil on its synchronicities. Meanwhile the seemingly prosaic old world shrugs: Hey, don't ask me, I just work here.”

• “I flicked on the TV. A French home-makeover show. A couple weeping uglily at the miracle of their cheaply redecorated kitchen. I changed channels. American Idol. Transformation again, this time from Nobody into Superstar. Perhaps Jacqueline was right: Humanity's getting its metamorphic kicks elsewhere these days. When you can watch the alchemy that turns morons into millionaires and gimps into global icons, where's the thrill in men who turn into wolves?”

• “The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only as a reaction to suffering or as an act of rage against the Almighty. Vampire interviewee Louis is in despair at his brother's death when he accepts Lestat's offer. Frankenstein's creature is driven to violence by the violence done to him. Even Lucifer's rebellion emerges from the agony of injured pride. The message is clear: By all means become an abomination-but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.”

• “What do you call a small robot vampire? Nosferatu - D2”

• “You’re the last. I’m sorry. I’d known what he was going to tell me. Now that he had, what? Vague ontological vertigo. Kubrik’s astronaut with the severed umbilicus spinning away all alone into infinity … At a certain point one’s imagination refused.”

  Jake

• “You can't live solely for someone else without sooner or later hating them.”

  Jake

• “Talking to yourself might not cure loneliness, but it helps.”

  Talulla

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• Heavy on me was the weight of the world’s ability to keep going, producing day after unique day, heaving up wars and conversations, bloodily popping out babies and silently swallowing the dead. The collective human unconscious can’t stand it, the thought of stuff going on forever, so has decided (collectively, unconsciously) to bring the planet to an end. Eco-apocalypse isn’t accident, it’s deep species strategy.

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• London
• Snowdonia

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• WOCOP: World Organisation for the Control of Occult Phenomena

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Sexual content, violence.

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Horror
• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy › Urban