Moon Dance - Softcover

"A historical romance, a Dickensian chronicle of the American West, and a brutally violent werewolf epic..."Moon Dance" is simply one of the finest fantasy novels of the year." --Ed Bryant, "Locus""Somtow does for werewolves what Anne Rice has done for vampires...he makes them complex, ultimately pitiful--and very sexy....["Moon Dance" is] a scary, gripping horror novel that breathes new life into the ancient, and often overworked, werewolf legend." --Baton Rouge "Advocate""If you were waiting around for someone to write the Great American Werewolf novel, the "Gone With the Wind" of lycanthropy, you can rest easy...S.P. Somtow has written a werewolf story like none ever written before....The result is a terrific story." --"Florida Times-Union"""Moon Dance "is a fiendish example of the traditional spooky genre, replete with chilling specters, rapacious werewolves and assorted nefarious creatures....this is primary horror, a book to cause sweaty palms and a reluctance to read the final chapter." --St. Louis "Post-Dispatch"

Set against a brilliant panorama of European expansion into the West in the late 1800s, "MOON DANCE" is the horrifying tale of the illegitimate son of the Count von Bachl-Wolfing, leader of a pack of Viennese werewolves, and of the boy's all -too-human governess, Speranza. The pack has decided to emigrate to America, in search of wild lands and unsuspicious human prey. But unbeknownst to them, the Dakota territory is already home to the Shungmanitu - a clan of the Lakota Sioux who become wolves by the light of the full moon.