In the movie, Marty is featured as a main character from the beginning and his experiences throughout the year receive just as much attention as the werewolf killings. In 1985, the story got a film adaptation called Silver Bullet, starring Corey Haim as Marty, and Gary Busey as his alcoholic Uncle Red. As a result, there is no strong protagonist to oppose the werewolf, and some may consider the narrative to be a little weak for this reason. The first survivor, a crippled boy named Marty Coslaw, is not introduced until the seventh of the twelve chapters, and is only featured prominently in chapters ten and twelve after that. It also has plenty of horror scenes, with most chapters describing a werewolf attack rather than developing the non-victim characters.

The story uses a whodunnit format for the most part, with the reader knowing that a werewolf is responsible for the killings, but not knowing who the werewolf is. The influence of the initial idea can still be seen in the format of the story though, as each chapter focuses on one month in the year of the killings. Inevitably, the decision was made to scrap the calendar idea, and release the story in Graphic Novel form with accompanying illustrations (by Bernie Wrightson, of Swamp Thing fame). Apparently, no one told them that this is the guy who wrote The Stand - the 'uncut' version of which is over 1,100 pages long. According to That Other Wiki, King originally started the project when he was asked to write twelve short chapters that would accompany a werewolf-themed calendar. Multiple Works Need Separate Pages, and this page needs to be turned into either a franchise page or a disambiguation page.Ī short story written by Stephen King and published in 1983, Cycle of the Werewolf is about a small town in Maine that is terrorized by a series of killings. Multiple versions or instalments of this work have been lumped into this page. This page needs some cleaning up to be presentable.

Cycle of the werewolf movie