"The Werewolf Gambit"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Short story
Year: 1957
ID: 1270
Publication history:
- 1957: Adam Vol. 1, No. 12, Magazine
- 1991: The Ultimate Werewolf, Trade paperback, 275 pp.
Other resources:
[None on record]
Form: Short story
Year: 1957
ID: 1270
[None on record]
Comments:
This brief story concerns a man sitting in a bar who's desperate for a date, but getting nowhere with the woman sitting next to him. As a last resort, he uses the
, one of the wackiest pick-up lines ever devised. He claims he's a werewolf. Suddenly she's interested, and agrees to go home with him. But sometimes claiming a supernatural nature may have unintended consequences.