FRIGHT FEST #5: The Night of the Wolf - Frank Belknap Long

So far in this Fright Fest of supernatural mystery reviews we've had ghosts, demons, vampires and zombie kittens (sort of ), haunted houses, animated skeletons, and macabre murders. It was only a matter of time before I found a werewolf novel. This one comes from the pen of Lovecraft acolyte and Arkham House refugee Frank Belknap Long. Last time I reviewed a novel by Long it was Journey into Darkness that I whipped through while I was waiting for my panel to be called for jury duty back in 2011. That book is a weird, rambling, science fiction/horror novel that spent several pages discussing Jungian archetypes and the collective unconsciousness as well as the work of psychoanalyst and sexologist Wilhelm Reich. So I was prepared for yet another rambling book from Long that would no doubt be filled with tangential or superfluous passages. I was pleasantly surprised that it is a straightforward B movie on paper. The entire story takes place within a single day (beginning around noon and…