The Last Werewolf
by Glen Duncan (Knopf, 2011); audiobook read by Robin Sachs (Random House, 2011)
Jacob Marlowe is the last of his kind, world-weary and prone to introspection, accepting of death. With Duncan’s intelligent literary approach, the werewolf genre at last grows up and in this one fell swoop shows it can be truly, viscerally, exquisitely horrifying.
Doctor Who: Loups-Garoux
by Marc Platt (Big Finish, 2001)
Werewolves are given some welly for a change, Platt anticipating Glen Duncan by a decade in substituting patrician cold-bloodedness for mere savagery. The Fifth Doctor and Turlough are treated as characters, not cut-outs. The only flaw is the deus ex machina ending.
The Killing Lessons
by Saul Black (St. Martin’s Press, 2015); audiobook read by Christina Delaine (Macmillan Audio, 2015)
Glen Duncan’s oeuvre showcases an uncensored, unrelenting search for the truths of human nature. Writing now under a pseudonym, Duncan turns his literary vivisection upon serial killers, cops and victims – to urgent, disturbing effect. Christina Delaine is a willing and able accomplice.
I, Lucifer
by Glen Duncan (Scribner, 2002)
Sexually provocative and defiantly erudite as always, Duncan’s dalliance with the devil adds a louche dash of profanity to the mix. His first-person memoir as Lucifer in semi-autobiographical possession of novelist Declan Gunn constitutes a priapismic revision of everything once thought holy.