I think the main issue was that IT WASN'T A VAMPIRE NOVEL. I totally see your points but I liked it.at least most of it. I did just finally read a McCammon novel, "They Thirst," which I see you didn't like.
That's one I wanted so badly to read back when it came out, but either I couldn't find it or I just couldn't get into it, I can't recall. I'm sure you are familiar with that one! Then there's also Robert McCammon's "Wolf's Hour," which I'm sure you also know about (I feel very stupid telling YOU about horror novels!!). But "werewolves meets Nazis" must have been a hot topic at the time.we've got that weird dream sequence in "An American Werewolf In London" and I also have a book by "Survivalist" author Jerry Ahern titled "WerewolveSS," with the SS bolts for the two Ss. Hey Will, thanks a lot for the comment! Yes, it is very puzzling how these authors fail to reap the potential of their own plots. Well anyway, at one point in a flashback they’re in Hungary and tracking down none other than Dracula himself, and the whole scene is so damn stupid…Dracula talks like a pompous oaf, taunting the werewolves, then apropos of nothing turns himself into a werewolf when they themselves transform (per tradition, Kaldy and Claudia have come to see Dracula on the night of a full moon, dontcha know), and then Dracula flies off and is never mentioned again. She too is a werewolf, cursed with immortality, and accuses Kaldy of making her a werewolf…though neither Claudia nor Kaldy are really sure, because even Claudia can’t friggin’ remember anything about her past. Like for example, it turns out that Kaldy at one point had a traveling companion named Claudia, who traveled with Kaldy for centuries. And a lot of these flashbacks are underwhelming. You keep wanting a werewolf novel, but intsead it becomes a slog of episodic flashbacks to the ancient past.
Imagine, if you can, the frustration of reading a novel about someone who has lived thousands of years but can’t even remember what his real name is – nor even how he became a werewolf! Mark Of The Werewolf is in some ways like a continuous kick to the crotch.
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