SOURCE: "The Hidden Beast" (Signs and Wonders, 1921) by J. D. Beresford

DESCRIPTION: "...But presently I heard a story of some fierce wild animal he caged and tortured in the prison of his house..."

PLOT: A lonely man on the edge of town invites the narrator to his home. he shows him a window open at the back of the house into the woods. He points out that he lives in both worlds, the wild and the world of the collective public. Later the sounds of a snarling beast is heard in his home but no one can find the animal. A month later the man moves away, thanking the narrator for not searching his home during the night of the full moon.

WEREWOLF FACTS: Beresford gives no outward lycanthropic details. Instead what he does is brilliantly show the mind-set of a werewolf, how he is trapped between two lives. The story is short but quite effective.

INTERESTING FACTS: Beresford is best known as a contemporary of H. G. Wells and as the Science Fiction writer of The Hampdenshire Wonder.