title: Cycle of the Werewolf
author:  Stephen King 
description: Stephen King, the world's bestselling novelist, was educated at the University of Maine at Orono. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, and their children in Bangor, Maine.
zlib_text: CYCLE OF THE WEREWOLF
  
    
  
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  Stephen King
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
    
  
  JANUARY
  
    
    
  
  Somewhere, high above, the moon shines down, fat and full-but here, in
  Tarker's Mills, a January blizzard has choked the sky with snow. The wind rams
  full force down a deserted Center Avenue; the orange town plows have given up
  long since.
  
  Arnie Westrum, flagman on the GS&WM Railroad, has been caught in the small
  tool-and-signal shack nine miles out of town; with his small, gasoline-powered
  rail-rider blocked by drifts, he is waiting out the storm there, playing Last
  Man Out solitaire with a pack of greasy Bicycle cards. Outside the wind rises
  to a shrill scream. Westrum raises his head uneasily, and then looks back down
  at his game again. It is only the wind, after all...
  
  But the wind doesn't scratch at doors… and whine to be let in.
  
  He gets up, a tall, lanky man in a wool jacket and railroad coveralls, a Camel
  cigarette jutting from one comer of his mouth, his seamed New England face lit
  in sof