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What if escaping old age means carrying a curse that puts love itself in danger?
Fernand Wagner is old, poor, and afraid of dying. His strength fades, and his past offers little comfort. Then a mysterious stranger offers him a new life. In George W. M. Reynolds's Gothic novel, the promise of youth comes with a terrible price: Wagner must live beneath the curse of the wolf.
Young again, Wagner can love and be loved. But his bargain casts a shadow over the people who enter his life. Nisida and Agnes become bound to his fate as love, secrets, and rivals gather around him. Set in Renaissance Italy, this tale blends horror and romance with a troubling question: what does it cost to escape human limits?
What you’ll discover
- A stranger's terrible offer Meet the mysterious figure whose promise answers Wagner's desperation and brings a curse.
- Youth beneath a shadow Follow a man who regains youth but cannot leave the bargain's burden behind.
- Love drawn into danger Discover Nisida and Agnes, whose lives become entangled with Wagner's troubled fate.
- The cost of longing Explore the wish to defeat age and poverty, and the debt that follows.
- Gothic thrills and romance Enter a long, melodramatic adventure where dark bargains bring love and horror together.
Who will love it
For readers who love Gothic horror, devil bargains, and serial adventures with strong atmosphere, and anyone drawn to romance, secrets, and werewolf curses.
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- A desperate old man meets a stranger
- The price is a curse of the wolf
- Love and danger gather around the curse
- What the book is about and how it is told
Who’s who
- Fernand WagnerAn old, poor man who accepts a dark bargain for youth and then must live with the curse it brings.
- The strangerA mysterious figure, tied to the devil in the tale, who offers Wagner a new life at a terrible price.
- NisidaA woman whose life becomes bound up with Wagner's, in a story of love, secrets, and danger.
- AgnesA young woman whose fate is drawn into the shadow of Wagner's curse.
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Wagner, le loup-garou
by George W. M. Reynolds · 1846
Fernand Wagner accepts a stranger's offer of youth, but a werewolf curse puts every hope at risk.
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Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf is a Gothic novel by George W. M. Reynolds. It first appeared in weekly parts in the 1840s, when cheap serial fiction was finding a huge audience in Britain.
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A desperate old man meets a stranger
The story begins with Fernand Wagner, an aged man who has little left to lose. He is poor, he is growing weak, and he looks back on a life that has given him few rewards. Reynolds uses this low point to make the reader understand why anyone would listen to a voice from the dark.
Then a mysterious stranger appears. He seems to know Wagner's wishes before Wagner speaks them. He offers what every worn-out person might long for, which is youth, strength, and a chance to live again.
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What is Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf about?
It is a Gothic novel about Fernand Wagner, an old man who makes a bargain with a dark stranger for youth and riches, and then must bear a curse that turns him into a wolf.
What does wehr-wolf mean?
It is an old spelling of werewolf. The word names a person who changes into a wolf, and in this book the change is the price of a bargain with the devil.
When was Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf written?
George W. M. Reynolds published it in weekly installments in the 1840s, in Reynolds's Miscellany. It is fiction, not a true story, and draws on older legends of werewolves and devil pacts.
The author
George W. M. Reynolds
1814–1879 · English novelist and journalist
George W. M. Reynolds was a British novelist and journalist, born in Sandwich, Kent, in 1814. He lived in France and later in London, where he died in 1879. He wrote The Mysteries of London, begun in 1844, and Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf, published in 1846–1847.
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