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Ray Tigerman’s A Knight on Wolf Island follows Tayen, a Navajo blacksmith who survives the sinking of the whaling ship Providence before washing ashore on an unknown North Pacific island. With no rescue in sight, Tayen builds a shelter as wolves begin stalking his camp after dark. Their attacks expose the truth: the animals are skinwalkers, cursed people who take predatory forms while guarding a supernatural gateway hidden beneath the island. Tayen’s route home depends on understanding what controls Wolf Island. Drawing on his smithing experience, he salvages metal from the sunken Providence to create weapons that may harm creatures ordinary blades cannot stop. With the pack closing in around him, Tayen prepares for a confrontation that could determine whether he escapes.
In A Knight on Wolf Island, Ray Tigerman delivers inventive historical supernatural survival horror with characters whose individual identities are immediately recognizable. Tigerman gets Tayen exactly right through the history behind his decisions. His memory of learning blacksmithing beside his father Jacob after his mother Malia dies establishes the pride behind his self-reliance, giving his behavior on Wolf Island understandable roots. Tigerman applies that same understanding to the supernatural enemies. One Eye, the skinwalker marked by a ruined eye, emerges from a cave at sunrise halfway transformed, with glowing eyes appearing before his body reaches the light. That entrance tells you plenty about the creature before the confrontation even starts. The author takes skinwalker folklore seriously through creature horror that gives its monsters individual identities. I recommend A Knight on Wolf Island to readers drawn to supernatural survival stories rooted in folklore.
