Leigh Carlson

Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of 20,000 conversations he's overheard. Mitchell is fascinated with this Harvard grad and writes a 1942 piece about him, "Professor Seagull," bringing Gould some celebrity and an invitation to join the Greenwich Village Ravens, a poetry club he's often crashed. Gould's touchy, querulous personality and his frequent dropping in on Mitchell for hours of chat lead to a breakup, but the two Joes stay in touch until Gould's death and Mitchell's unveiling of the secret.

出版社に勤めるウィルは、満月のある夜、狼に噛まれてしまう。その日から感覚が研ぎ澄まされ、未知の力を得たように感じるウィル。彼は社の新オーナーと折り合いがつかず、クビの宣告が間近だった。パーティでオーナーの娘ローラと知り合い、互いに惹かれ合う二人。だが、彼の後釜を狙っていたスチュワートと密通していた妻がセントラル・パークで惨殺されるに及び、彼は自分が狼男に変身していると確信する…。