"You" won a writing competition via cheating, submitting an unsigned story you found elsewhere. But at the convention, it's discovered that the monsters are escaping from the stories to take revenge on their creators for how they were portrayed, including the werewolves from the story you took. Now, it's a race to survive the night...
This book provides examples of:
- Adults Are Useless: Played around in two ambiguous endings.
- Trying to break out of the lodge leads to it's cranky old keeper throwing you out for vandalizing. You get sent home on the spot, but at least you didn't die a horrible death via werewolves.
- Your dad drags you back home after the contests' organizers found out you plagiarized a story. While you didn't die, you'll still be in big trouble for cheating.
- Cassandra Truth: One of the ambiguous endings have you being sent home for cheating, after you discover the titular lodge to be infested with werewolves. You tried telling your dad the truth, but he doesn't believe you and you realize you'll be in big trouble once you got home.
- Cursed with Awesome: In one ending, you now know that monsters are terrified of dust, and you can't ever clean your home again, so you won't have to do any more chores.
- Disproportionate Retribution: The story is kicked off when you found a manuscript disposed in a trashcan titled "Revenge of the Werewolves" and decide to claim it as your own, winning you a trip to the titular lodge. Your punishment for plagiarism is to be hunted down by werewolves, zombies, and all kind of monsters. Good grief!
- Get into Jail Free: In one ending, you accidentally set off a burglar alarm whilst trying to escape from the lodge. Police arrive and arrest you, thinking you were trying to break in... and you happily play along with this so you can go to jail where the werewolves can't get you.
- Metafiction: Early in the adventure, you recover dropped papers from a suitcase and discovers them to be the manuscript of a story... that spells out all events leading up to this point.
- Morton's Fork: This book presents an interesting scenario when you're trapped in the middle of the woods, facing a bunch of creatures that could easily eviscerate you for their own amusement. One option is to trick them into playing a game of tag and running like hell to escape, but they easily catch up and kill you. The alternative? Convince them that they'd all turn on each other if they try to eat you, because they're all different creatures, and require different needs when it comes to eating humans. By doing that, they'd either let you live to prevent turning on each other, or go all divide and conquer to see who gets to eat you. Instead, they claim that they're diplomatic monsters, and that their different needs doesn't interfere at all with feeding on you, so you still wind up dead.
- Plagiarism in Fiction: The plot is kicked off by "you" having found a story, "Revenge of the Werewolves", in the trash and it somehow being submitted to a story competition in your name.
- Ret-Gone: One of the weirdest examples; you can come across a typewriter composing a story, and choose to press "DELETE". You'll end up deleting the entire adventure, including yourself.
- Shout-Out: In one section, you see a man in black with a suitcase, and the papers start falling out of it.
- The book's tagline? Dances With Werewolves.
- Silver Bullet: Explicitly subverted. There are silver items at the titular lodge, but the werewolves aren't affected by this.
- Tomato Surprise: A subplot have you pretending to be a monster in order to blend in with three other writers, all of them being real monsters. But if you chose to confess that you plagiarized the story and you're a human, they replied that "We know that but only a werewolf could've found that story"... at which point you realize, deep down inside, you're actually a werewolf your whole life, but you didn't know it yet.
- Was Once a Man: Much like the earlier GYG book Trapped in Bat Wing Hall, one of the good endings reveals that the occupants of the titular lodge used to be humans until a curse turns them into monsters. You managed to break the curse, therefore saving everyone.
