Little Women and Werewolves by Porter Grand

Fortunately, the entire work is available online, so anything I had to question was easily checked.

I think my seeing the Broadway musical in 2005 was more recent than the last time I read the book. Just go read it and let me know what you think.It's been a while since I read Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. But why is the Captain building an altar of bones, and why are huge platters of rare meat a staple at every party? OK, I really must stop before I give away all the good parts. The old-fashioned woodcut illustrations are appropriately gruesome. There are pages and pages of text without any reference to werewolves and then, oh my! Why did Amy’s teacher disappear? You will be shocked, shocked I tell you, when you find out who is roaming the night under the full moon, the part werewolves played in the Civil War, and which prominent citizens are wearing red on their ball gowns and waistcoats.

You will be laughing out loud in spots, saying “oh no!” in spots. If you love a good re-telling of a beloved story you will be fascinated by this book. “It’s dreadful to be so poor! And it’s a horror to have no father or brothers about to do heavy chores and protect us from the werewolves,” sighed Meg, rubbing at a spot on her old dress with her thumb. “It’s fortunate we thought to have a Christmas play, so we could invite friends to stay overnight, or it would have been completely ruined.” “Christmas night will have a full moon so on top of no presents, we can’t go out,” grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. According to the manuscript found by Porter Grand, werewolves were also a part of the March family’s life! But it seems there was another dimension to Louisa May Alcott’s original manuscript that was deemed too dark for her publisher. Yes, this is the story of Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth, their loving mother Marmee, their often absent father the Captain, their neighbor boy Laurie. The cover picture looked like the famous March girls, but what’s that lurking in the background? As I searched the library shelves for some light reading for summer I spied this intriguing title, Little Women and Werewolves.

Little Women and Werewolves by Porter Grand