SOURCE: The Portent & Other Stories (1909) by George Macdonald

DESCRIPTION: "Instinctively, he set himself firm, leaning a little forward, with half outstretched arms, and hands curved ready to clutch again at the throat upon which he had left those pitiful marks.  But the creature as she sprung eluded his grasp, and just as he expected to feel her fangs, he found a woman weeping on his bosom, with her arms around his neck.  The next instant, the gray wolf broke from him, and bounded howling up the cliff." 

PLOT: A traveler in the Orkney Islands gets stranded while on a walking tour. For the night he must ask for hospitality from an old woman who has a wild young daughter. When the man sleeps he is attacked by a wolf-like creature which chases him. He escapes at the end, only to see the girl wailing on the far shore, desolate in her loneliness.

WEREWOLF FACTS: The old woman tries to isolate her afflicted daughter by living in the most remote place in the world. Evidence of bruises suggest the daughter may attack her mother while in wolf form.

INTERESTING FACTS: Macdonald's tale is not long or complex but does a great job of showing the loneliness of the lives of the daughter and mother. Some of the opening of the story reminds me of Keats' "La Belle Dame Sans Merci", a possible inspiration of the story.