History Literature / TheWerewolfOfFeverSwamp

It was adapted into [[Recap/GoosebumpsS1E18E19TheWerewolfOfFeverSwamp the eighteenth and nineteenth episodes of the first season]] of [[Series/{{Goosebumps}} the TV series]]. It was also adapted into an installment of the ''Goosebumps Graphix'' series, included in the ''Creepy Creatures'' and ''Slappy's Tales of Horror'' collections.

* AdoringThePests: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. Grady adopts a stray dog and names it Wolf, but after some strange howls and disasters in the swamp, he wonders if Wolf is a werewolf. [[spoiler: He isn't]].

* AndImTheQueenOfSheba: When meeting Grady for the first time, Cassie tells him that there's a werewolf in the swamp. Will replied sarcastically that he was going to flap his wings and fly to Mars. [[spoiler: It turns out that he was actually saying that to deflect suspicion off of him, considering that he ''is' the werewolf]].

* GreaterScopeVillain: The eponymous werewolf of the story is the main villain. The swamp itself however, comes off as this.

* RedHerring: There's evidence pointing to [[spoiler:Wolf the dog]], [[spoiler: the swamp hermit]], and even [[spoiler:Grady's father]] as the werewolf. It's actually [[spoiler:Grady's friend, Will]].

* WorkingClassWerewolves: Protagonist Grady suspects that the swamp hermit, a weird old guy who lives alone in a shack in the middle of the swamp, is the werewolf. {{Subverted|Trope}}, as it turns out that [[spoiler: Grady's friend Will is actually the werewolf]], although given that the house he says he lives in is revealed to have been empty for months, it's suggested he himself may live in the swamp.

It was adapted into the eighteenth and nineteenth episodes of the first season of [[Series/{{Goosebumps}} the TV series]]. It was also adapted into an installment of the ''Goosebumps Graphix'' series, included in the ''Creepy Creatures'' and ''Slappy's Tales of Horror'' collections.

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!!The episode provides examples of:

* AdaptedOut: Cassie is removed from the story and her exposition about werewolves is given to Will.
* AdaptationNameChange: Wolf's name is changed to Vandal.
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: Will is made out to be sympathetic, to the point where Grady says "Poor Will" when he dies]].
* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler: Though the Swamp Hermit turns out to be GoodAllAlong, his initial creepy behavior towards Grady, like trapping him in a net and carrying him back to his hut, then howling at the full moon raises a few questions about his sudden HeroicSacrifice to save Grady. He might have originally intended to use him as bait for the werewolf, but even that's completely up in the air]].
** It’s also possible he initially thought Grady was the werewolf. There would have been no way to rule out this possibility until the full moon came out.
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:While the Swamp Hermit lives in the book, in the episode he dies at the hands of Will, making a HeroicSacrifice to save Grady. Also, in the book, the werewolf is simply driven away. In the episode, it is knocked into quicksand and drowns]].
* RaisedHandOfSurvival: [[spoiler: At the end, it looks like Will might not have drowned in the swamp after all...]]

* ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject: Grady invites Will and Cassie over to his house for the first time, and the two instantly started an argument about werewolves. Getting tired of this, Grady suggests that they change the subject, and brings up how both his parents are scientists. This doesn't actually do much good.

* FingerMuzzle: When encountering a shack in teh swamp, Grady starts babbling about how he believes it's a hideout. Emily responds by doing this trope to him.

* AlasPoorVillain: Will is made out to be sympathetic, to the point where Grady says "Poor Will" when he dies.

* DeathByAdaptation: While the Swamp Hermit lives in the book, in the episode he dies at the hands of Will, making a HeroicSacrifice to save Grady. Also, in the book, the werewolf is simply driven away. In the episode, it is knocked into quicksand and drowns.
* RaisedHandOfSurvival: At the end, it looks like Will might not have drowned in the swamp after all...

* SeldomSeenSpecies: The book prominently features a group of "swamp deer" from South America (which are properly called "Marsh deer"; the true swamp deer, or barasingha, is from India), which Dr. Tucker is studying and intends to release into the local swamp so he can see if they'd be able to adapt to the swamps of Florida.

* BigFriendlyDog: Wolf introduces himself by bounding into Grady and licking him, and later saves him from the werewolf.

* DramaticWind: Harsh wind comes through the night air as Grady goes out the house and [[spoiler: finds that one of their family's deer was killed by the werewolf]].

* FungusHumongous: Amond the flora that Grady and Emily see on their first trip out in the swamp are mushrooms as big as footballs.

* TruthInTelevision: The factoids that Emily brings up about swamps throughout the book is pretty much true. For instance, she points out to Grady that the mud around them isn't quicksand, it's a peat bog, which is a pond that has peat moss growing in it.

* AmbiguousSituation: Though the Swamp Hermit turns out to be GoodAllAlong, his initial creepy behavior towards Grady, like trapping him in a net and carrying him back to his hut, then howling at the full moon raises a few questions about his sudden HeroicSacrifice to save Grady. He might have originally intended to use him as bait for the werewolf, but even that's completely up in the air.

* AdoringThePests: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. Grady adopts a stray dog and names it Wolf, but after some strange howls and disasters in the swamp, he wonders if Wolf is a werewolf. He isn't.

* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: In the climax, [[spoiler: the werewolf bites the hero, passing the curse onto him.]]

!!This book provides examples of:

!! The TV episode provides examples of:

* DeathByAdaptation: While the Swamp Hermit lives in the book, in the episode he dies at the hands of Will.

* AdaptationNameChange: Wolf's name is changed to Killer.

* DeathByAdaptation: While the Swamp Hermit lives in the book, in the episode he dies at the hands of Will.

* DeadByAdaptation: While the Swamp Hermit lives in the book, in the episode he dies at the hands of Will.

* WorkingClassWerewolves: Protagonist Grady suspects that the swamp hermit, a weird old guy who lives alone in a shack in the middle of the swamp, is the werewolf. {{Subverted|Trope}}, as it turns out that [[spoiler: Grady's friend Will is actually the werewolf]], although given that the house he says he lives in is revealed to have been empty for months, it's suggested he himself may live in the swamp.