SOURCE: "The Fugitive" (Unknown Worlds, October 1943) by Jane Rice

DESCRIPTION: "Milli gave an infinitesimal gasp. A man was in her garden! A man, who judging from the visible portion of his excellent anatomy, had -- literally-- lost his shirt...To begin with, it wasn't a man. It was youth. And to end with, there was something about him, some queer, indefinable quality, that was absolutely fascinating."

PLOT: During WW, in Paris, Milli, a bored American  finds a young man in her garden. Old Phillipe has been killed and eaten by a wild animal, but this doesn't stop Milli from sending her maid away, and inviting the young man in. he seems wild and looks at her with hunger. He even pinches her to see how fat she is. Milli cooks him a beautiful dinner then lures him on to the sofa, where she plunges a liquor-filled chocolate down his throat. The candy contains silver from her charm bracelet, which kills the werewolf. Just as he was willing to eat her, Milli waits for the body to turn into a wolf, so she can feast on it.

WEREWOLF FACTS: Most of the werewolf facts are left unstated as Rice knows her readers are familiar with werewolf lore. She does use silver to kill him. She also knows that he will turn into a large wolf, not a wolfman. She knows this from reading The Werewolf of Paris by Guy Endore.

INTERESTING FACTS: Rice's story is more about the psychology of Milli and the hardships of Occupied Paris than werewolves. She is a selfish, spoiled kind of a woman who doesn't shiver with fear when she realizes a werewolf is in her garden. Instead she sees this as her opportunity for fresh meat. Which she gets to eat all alone, not even sharing it with Maria, her maid. Rice does a great job of making you think the story is the cliché of a werewolf eats a woman then turns it on its head.