The Howling

Blurb

The Howling is a 1977 horror novel by Gary Brandner. It was the inspiration for the 1981 movie The Howling, although the plot of the movie was only vaguely similar to that of the book.
Brandner published two sequels of the novel, The Howling II during 1979 and The Howling III: Echoes during 1985. Neither sequel was used as the basis for any of the subsequent Howling movies that includes Howling IV: The Original Nightmare and Howling V: The Rebirth.
The fourth movie of the series, Howling IV: The Original Nightmare made during 1988 is the closest adaptation of Brandner's original 1977 Howling novel, though even this differs in parts.