Due to his young age, Malcolm is only partially able to transform into a werewolf. At a secret clinic, Malcolm is tortured as Pastory conducts cruel experiments on him. However, an ambitious and unscrupulous doctor, Wayne Pastory, abducts Malcolm so that he can experiment on him and learn more about werewolves. Malcolm is hospitalized and placed under the care of resident psychiatric specialist Dr. The former leader of the Drago community and the one responsible for the deaths, Derak, finds Malcolm and tries to tell him of his werewolf heritage and bring him back to his people fellow survivors of Drago like themselves. A teenage boy named Malcolm, a survivor of the Drago fire, is found living in the woods. Minor elements of the novel (such as werewolves being used in carnival freak shows) were used in the film Howling VI: The Freaks, though this idea was actually first seen in the 1975 British horror film Legend of the Werewolf.Ī year after the Californian mountain village of Drago was destroyed by a fire, sinister murders begin to occur in the neighboring town of Pinyon. Like its predecessor, The Howling II, the book has not been adapted for the screen and bears virtually no similarity to the Howling III film or any of the other films in The Howling series.

It is the third and final entry in his Howling series of novels.

title: The Howling III) is a 1985 horror novel by the American author Gary Brandner.

The Howling II by Gary Brandner