Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man the Talbot family crypt to open the grave of Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney, Jr.), seeking valuables buried with him, on the night of a full moon. During the robbery, the thieves remove the wolfsbane buried with Talbot, and he is awakened from death by the full moon shining on his uncovered body. Talbot reflexively grasps the arm of the grave robber with a fur-covered hand, as the other thief flees. Talbot is found by police in Cardiff later in the night, with a vicious head wound (administered by his father at the end of "The Wolf Man"), and taken to
The Wolf Gift the Hardcover Fiction list. The novel is set in Northern California, an area where Rice lived a large portion of her life. Several scenes of the novel take place in the Redwood Forest. Rice explained that "The Wolf Gift" was not her return to supernatural fiction, stating that the religiously themed novels, "" and "" revolved around mystical events as well. At the San-Diego Comic-Con, Rice spoke with MTV about "The Wolf Gift": "It's about a young man who becomes a werewolf. It's my take on what that experience is like for that young man, to experience that transformation and