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MacDonald, George [AL]

"The Gray Wolf" {/Ph/}

[in Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder; ed. Hartwell, David G.; Guild America; ?] [BBT]

Result: LY. A man stays the night with a werewolf and her mother. -Ph

MacDonald, Ian [Bo] [??]

"Towards Kilimanjaro" {144//} [??]

[in Future Earths: Under African Skies; DAW; 1993; 0886775442; $4.99] [BB] [BBT]

Rating: 4 Cause: AX/EM Result: BM/PE Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: 0. [See entry on Ian MacDonald's Evolution's Shore, in the Books section, for more information.] -144 (98/02/09)

Maclean, Katherine

"Syndrome Johnny" {/77/}

[in Galaxy; 1951]
[In Backdrop of Stars; ed. Harry Harrison, NEL (UK); May 1975] [BBT]

[Cause: VI.] Over several generations, someone has spread viral plagues that have wiped out billions. (See Spoiler Section for more info) -77

"Unhuman Sacrifice" {/77/}

[in Astounding; 1958]
[reprinted in A Century of Science fiction; ed. Damon Knight] [BBT]

A missionary interferes with the torture ritual that humanoid aliens perform on their young at the time of the spring floods. (See Spoiler Section for more info) -77

Magus (aka Magus T. Fox) [HP]

"Meeting Friends" {/Ph/}

[http://www.lycanon.org/transcontest/1/MeetingFriends.html]

Result: BX/AN. Human into fox. -Ph (98/04/06)

Malzberg, Barry [AL]

"Nightshapes" {/Ph/}

[in Werewolf! by Pronzini]

[Result: LY.] A man tries to cure his wife's lycanthropy. Pronzini liked this one a lot; I wasn't quite as impressed. -Ph

Marie de France [??]

"Bisclavret" (poem) {/143/} [??]

[?]

[Cause: NA? Result: LY.] Maybe you could add to your Stories listing the poem `Bisclavret' by Marie de France. Admittedly it is written in Old French, but there are several translations and, being dated c.12th century, it is the earliest literary work on lycanthropy in European literature. It tells the tale of a noble baron afflicted with lycanthropy, whose rival for his wife's affections steals his discarded clothes, leaving him trapped in the state of a wolf. The King visits the forest where he dwells and, by an unbeastly display of obeisance, Bisclavret befriends the King and becomes his constant companion. Meanwhile, wife and rival start an affair. In due course, they are invited to dinner at the palace and recognised by Bisclavret, who, for the first ever time, viciously attacks and bites the `strangers'. Bisclavret recovers his human shape and is further honoured, while the wife, whose nose has been bitten off, flees into exile and begets a family of noseless children. -143 (98/02/09)

Marryat, Frederick

"The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains" {/Ph/}

[in A Walk With the Beast; ed. Collins, Charles M.; Avon; 1969; 0386005069; $?] [BB] [BBT]

[Result: LY.] Never blow your wife away, even if she is a werewolf. -Ph

Masterton, Graham

"Changeling" {/11,TG/}

[in Hot Blood, by Gelb]

[Cause: AX?.] Rating: 4 Result: MT Significance: + Description: - Saturation: 0. SF; Alien granted ability. An extended one-night stand brings unexpected results. -11

Matthias, Charles [HP]

"Flushed!" {/Ph/}

[Adult link]

Cause: MA Result: BX/AN. Alligator to human, and vice-versa. Warning: Very violent. -Ph (98/04/06)

McCaffrey, Anne [Bo] [AL] [BL] [BR]

[short story in A Science Fiction A to Z; eds. Asimov, Greenberg, Waugh; Houghton Mifflin; 1982; 039531285X; $22.95 hardcover] [BB] [BBT]
[short story in The Great Science Fiction Series; eds. Pohl, Greenberg, Olander; Harper & Row; 1980; 0060133821; $16.95 hardcover] [BB] [BBT]

[Cause: AS Result: BM/IN.] The heroine was severely deformed at birth but was placed in some sort of cybernetic shell which allowed her to almost literally become a starship, pilot, navigator and captain. There was also some mind to body transfers in there. -36

McCammon, Robert [Bo] [AL]

"The Thang" {/11/}

[in Hot Blood, by Gelb]

A man who's unsatisfied with the size of his 'thang' takes a voodoo potion to make it larger--with excessively good results. Rather funny. Horror; Cause: MA Result: MX Significance: 0 Description: + Saturation: 0. -11

McElroy, Wendy

"Werewolf" (poem) {/Ph/}

[in Amazing Stories, September 1984]

Result: LY. Lycanthropy. As if you couldn't guess... -Ph

Michaux, Henri

"And More Changes Still" {//Ph}

[in SF 12; ed. Merril, Judith; Dell; 1969; 7815; $0.75] [BBT]

[Rating: 1 Significance: - Description: - Saturation: +.] A definite ++ on the "Saturation" scale; there's at least one transformation in most sentences. Doesn't really come to any conclusion, though, and no detail in the transformations. -Ph

Moon, Elizabeth [BL]

"The Happy Frog" {/Ph/}

[in Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 1989]

[Result: BX?/AN?.] A frog-prince story. -Ph

Moore, C. L. [AL] [DZ]

"No Woman Born" {75//11}

[in The Best of C.L. Moore; ed. Lester Del Rey; Del Rey; 1975; 0345289528; $2.25] [BB] [BBT]

Rating: 3 Result: MT Significance: 0 Description: - Saturation: -. SF; Mechanical body. A woman whose body was destroyed is given a mechanical body. -11
Cause: AS Result: BX. Very good story about a dancer who is nearly killed in a theatre fire, and then a neurosurgeon rescues her brain and builds a mechanical body to suit her. Great detail on the mental transformations that come as she learns to use her new body. -75

Murphy, Pat [AL] [BL]

"Eyes of the Wolf" {/77/}

[in Galaxy; May 1978]

[Cause: AS Result: MT/AN.] A woman's mind is imprinted onto a wolf. -77

"Rachel in Love" {/77/}

[in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1987]
[in Points of Departure; Bantam Spectra; 1990; 0553286153; $3.95] [BB] [BBT]

[Cause: AS Result: MT/AN.] A scientist imprints his dead daughter's mind onto a chimpanzee. -77

"South of Oregon City" {/28/}

[In The Ultimate Werewolf by Preiss]

[Result: LY.] Werewolf in the old west. -28

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