A. E. Henderson

"People talked of a colossal wolf with gray fur, almost white, who had eaten two children, gnawed off a woman's arm..."A werewolf terrorises locals, devouring livestock and killing children, but brothers Jean and François are determined to find and kill the beast once and for all. Will the hunters become the hunted?French author Henri Ren Albert Guy de Maupassant (1850 - 1893) was a pioneer of the modern short story and is best recognised for works like 'The Necklace', 'Pierre et Jean', and 'Une Vie'.
His novel 'Bel Ami' was made into a film in 2012, starring Uma Thurman and Robert Pattinson.