College Station has a werewolf problem—but only in the pages of a Texas horror-comedy graphic novel series. A Houston-based author has turned the college town into a murder scene, furry-convention battleground and launchpad for a growing supernatural universe.
The trouble began with Where Wolf, a 2022 graphic novel about struggling journalist Larry Chaney, who investigates a string of killings while trying to protect a local furry convention. Now Chaney's story is continuing with Curse of the Where Wolf, scheduled for release Friday, Aug. 7, according to the series' official website.
Why College Station Became Werewolf Country
Writer Rob Saucedo is not throwing darts at a Texas map. The former Texas A&M student and Battalion reporter drew on his own time in College Station, as well as old student-newspaper accounts of wolf attacks, when building the book's setting, The Battalion reported.
Saucedo has also described the story as part journalism satire, part quarter-life crisis and part werewolf mayhem. The Texas Observer previously noted that the book grew out of his experience working in local journalism, with protagonist Larry Chaney serving as a heavily fictionalized version of the author's professional frustrations and ambitions.
The Sequel Moves The Monster Toward San Antonio
Chaney's career takes a sharper turn in the sequel: His heroics in the first book leave him transformed into a werewolf, forcing him to wrestle with an insatiable appetite while searching for a cure. As Chron reported, the second book is primarily set in San Antonio, while Saucedo has floated Austin as a possible vampire-heavy setting for a future installment.
The larger plan is to make each book a different Texas city with its own particular flavor of strange. Saucedo has even suggested that a future Houston chapter could involve a semi-aquatic bayou creature, which feels less like a spoiler than a municipal inevitability.
River Oaks Theatre Gets A Full Werewolf Weekend
The release is being paired with a run of classic werewolf movies at Houston's River Oaks Theatre, where Saucedo serves as artistic director. The theater lists a book signing alongside The Howling at 9:15 p.m. Friday, Aug. 7, according to the River Oaks Theatre.
The broader series also includes Wolfen on Aug. 14 and An American Werewolf in London on Aug. 21, with Saucedo signing copies of the new graphic novel. For a story that began with a College Station reporter chasing a killer, the next chapter is getting a suitably theatrical rollout in Houston—complete with monsters, midnight-movie energy and hopefully no actual lycanthropy in the lobby.
