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Context Literature / HungryAsAWolf

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3	Wolf Cowrie is back in his second adventure!
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5	After the events of ''Literature/SheepsClothing'', Wolf finds himself recruited by the governor of a mining town in the Nebraska Territory to find out what has happened to the mine on which the town depends for its livelihood. Wolf is about to discover the terrifying effects of a curse that causes the dead to rise, hungering for human flesh, thanks to the influence of a wendigo--as well as the healing power of love in the wake of Kimimela's death.
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7	!!''Hungry as a Wolf'' contains examples of:
8	* FeedItABomb: Wolf's strategy for getting away from the wendigo and taking out the tunnel it's in amounts to shoving a dynamite bundle into its mouth and running out, hollering for Hartford to set it off from outside the mine.
9	* GuttedLikeAFish: Narrowly avoided in the fight between Wolf and the wendigo--Wolf doesn't get gutted but he gets clawed down his front, and even with his HealingFactor he requires a lot of stitches in the aftermath.
10	* HandOrObjectUnderwear: Wolf uses his Stetson to preserve his modesty when Susannah walks in on him as he's getting out of the bath.
11	* HellishHorse: Wolf managed to develop an "understanding" with one of Russeau's horses from the previous novella. He named it Lucifer.
12	* MadeOfIron: Wolf has survived a lot of abuse over the course of his life, thanks to his supernatural healing factor. A brief catalog:
13	-->In the course of my life, I've been shot, stabbed, hung, dragged behind a horse, buried alive, and tangled with creatures that would give you nightmares.
14	* NakedFirstImpression: Susannah walks in on Wolf as he's coming out of the bath, leading to the HandOrObjectUnderwear moment above.
15	* NotUsingTheZWord: The zombies are called "screamers", as neither zombies nor ghouls are in the common lexicon of the setting.
16	* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The screamers:
17	** FleshEatingZombie: Because of the Wendigo's influence, the screamers constantly hunger for human flesh (and only that).
18	** RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain: The only way to put down a screamer. Wolf gets a screamer's brains all over him in the process of discovering this, thanks to a point-blank shotgun blast.
19	* RiseFromYourGrave: The previous town doctor of Goldwater does this when he reanimates as a screamer.
20	* SilentSnarker: Lucifer the demon horse might not be able to talk, but he is intelligent enough to communicate his opinions when he has to.
21	* StuffBlowingUp: Wolf manages to bury the wendigo with a well-place dynamite charge. And by well-placed, we mean [[FeedItABomb shoved into its mouth]].

Context Literature / HungryAsAWolf