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The Werewolf Diaries, Part I

By: Benjamin Owens
Narrated by: Benjamin Owens
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One might say it is an audiobook about monsters, but that would be a clumsy way of missing the point. The Werewolf Diaries is concerned, rather, with what happens when the self begins to fracture under the pressure of time, fear, and memory. The moon is present, yes, and the forest, and the sudden terror of teeth in the dark—but these are merely the outer garments of something far more intimate.

Here the werewolf is not simply a creature that prowls; it is a consciousness divided against itself. By day, the mind arranges its thoughts neatly—work, love, regret, the steady ticking of ordinary hours. By night, the same mind loosens. Instinct rises. Desire, long repressed, stretches and bares its claws. The diary form allows us to listen as the narrator thinks, doubts, remembers—each entry a pulse, a throb of awareness caught between what is permitted and what is inevitable.

Time does not move forward politely. It eddies. The past leaks into the present. A childhood fear returns wearing a new face. The body becomes unfamiliar, almost traitorous, and yet thrilling in its raw honesty. What is civilization, the audiobook seems to ask, if not a thin skin stretched over something ancient and hungry?

And always there is the question—not whether the transformation will come, but whether it is, in some secret chamber of the soul, already welcome.

The Werewolf Diaries is thus less a tale of horror than a quiet, unsettling meditation on identity: on how easily we slip from one self into another, and how close—terrifyingly close—the beast has always been to the thinking mind.

©2025 BENJAMIN OWENS (P)2025 BENJAMIN OWENS
Anthologies & Short Stories Dark Fantasy Fantasy
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