The Wolf's Bride

( Finnish - Sudenmorsian - 1928 )

novel by Aino Kallas

translated by Alex Matson & Brian Rhys

Published: Jonathan Cape - hardback - 1930
ISBN: none

extract contained in The Dedalus Book of Finnish Fantasy ( trans. by David Hackston )


synopsis
The story of a forester's wife, called Aalo, who can assume a wolf's shape and is killed in the end by her husband's silver bullet.

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