That night, Grady hears howling and observes Wolf slowly moving towards the swamp shortly afterward.

He plans on taking Wolf to the pound, but Grady is convinced that a werewolf killed the deer and other animals in town, and he helps the dog flee before Mr. Tucker sees paw prints around the pen and blames Wolf for the killing. Warner's disappearance.Īfter going out to investigate some howling, Grady finds a hole that had been ripped from the deer pen and a slain deer laying on one side. Cassie O'Rourke, a girl who lives in the neighborhood, suggests that a werewolf is the reason for Mr. One morning, Will tells him that a neighbor, Ed Warner, went missing after hunting in the swamp. Grady thinks the dog resembles more a wolf than a dog and decides to call the dog Wolf. A few days later, as Grady is going outside to meet Will Blake, one of his new friends, a big stray dog jumps onto Grady. As the hermit chases after them, they run away ultimately making their way back home. Grady and his sister Emily get lost while exploring the swamp and meet a swamp hermit who lives in a shack. Grady’s father keeps the deer in a pen but plans on releasing them in the swamp. Tucker, a scientist, wants to determine if swamp deer from South America can survive in Florida. Grady and his family, the Tuckers, have moved to Florida into a house next to Fever Swamp because his father Mr. In 2006, the book was adapted into a comic book story in the volume Creepy Creatures. In the mid-1990s, it was adapted for television, and was later released on both VHS and DVD. The book was featured on the USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestseller list. One reviewer felt the book built up suspense by hiding the identity of the werewolf until the end. The Werewolf of Fever Swamp was very well-received by critics. After a swamp deer is killed, his father believes Grady's dog is responsible, but Grady is convinced a werewolf is the culprit. The story follows Grady Tucker, who moves into a new house next to the Fever Swamp with his family. The Werewolf of Fever Swamp is the fourteenth book in the original Goosebumps, the series of children's horror fiction novellas created and authored by R.

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