I’ve never been afraid of the werewolf but I have met a few humans who gave me the jitters.

When my nephews and nieces were young, they would spend a week or two each summer out here on the farm with my wife and I. My wife would tell the kids that there were werewolves lurking in the woods at night waiting for little boys and girls. She scared the kids into not wandering out into the woods after dark.

Of course there were no werewolves but if a gray wolf howled in the night we could count on a kid or two piling into our bed.