SOURCE: "The Hyena" (Weird Tales, March 1928) by Robert E. Howard

DESCRIPTION: "No tracks led away from the hut and no tracks led to it except the tracks of the hyena. Yet there was no hyena within that hut; and on the dirt floor, a bullet through his black breast, lay Senecoza, the fetish-man."

PLOT: While visiting Africa, Steve falls for Ellen Farel who lives with her Boer cousin on a plantation. The evil fetish man Senecoza steals the girl. Steve goes after the witch doctor, saving Ellen and wounding a giant hyena. Tracking the animal they find the dead fetshman transformed.

WEREWOLF FACTS: The lycanthropy in this tale is hidden from the reader. Howard hints that the big ugly hyena is the shape-shifting fetish man but saves the big reveal for the ending.

INTERESTING FACTS: Howard did not return to his original  ideas in "Wolfshead" but uses a much more conventionally lycanthrope in this later tale.