Walking Wolf - by Nancy A Collins (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

More than 150 years old, Billy Skillet looks back on his life existing between Native Americans and white men on the frontiers of a growing America, always on the edges of reality and unreality.

Born of a werewolf father and human mother from the Old Country, Billy is the only member of his family who survives a vicious attack. Found alive in the rubble of their homestead by a Comanche, Billy is taken in by the tribe. From there, he finds that--as a skinwalker--he is revered by the Native Americans, though reviled by the white man.

Battling powerful instincts and his own moral code, Billy embarks on his life's never-ending journey, first learning the ways of the settlers at the hands of a brutal and drunken reverend, then with a charismatic con man peddling elixirs in a traveling show. He survives a lynching, becomes the manservant of a vampire, and battles one of his own kind, a beast consumed by evil ambition. He sees the rise and fall of legends, the births of his own children, and the deaths of his loved ones. And never far behind, Billy's nemesis: a bounty hunter known as Witchfinder Jones, who, even now, may still be out there, willing to go to the ends of the earth to destroy him . . .

Originally published in Dead Man's Hand

Praise for Nancy A. Collins

"Possibly the most original voice in the world of vampire fiction since Anne Rice published Interview with a Vampire." --Film Threat

About the Author

Nancy A. Collins is best known for the female punk vampire and vampire slayer Sonja Blue, who made her debut in the award-winning Sunglasses After Dark, and as a founding pioneer of the Urban Fantasy genre. She is also the first woman to have written Swamp Thing for DC comics, as well as the Vampirella character for Dynamite Entertainment. She is a recipient of the HWA's Bram Stoker Award, the British Fantasy Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and the Scribe Award. She currently resides in Macon, Georgia, with interior and exterior cats.