Werewolf Bedtime Stories, New Yorker cartoon by Harry Bliss

CREDIT: New Yorker cartoon by Harry Bliss, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Prints available at condenaststore.com.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Instead of Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, this werewolf father reads the lycanthrope version.

Werewolves of Hollywood

A BOAT, Poem by Richard Brautigan

O beautiful
was the werewolf
in his evil forest.
We took him
to the carnival
and he started
crying
when he saw
the Ferris wheel.
Electric
green and red tears
flowed down
his furry cheeks.
He looked
like a boat
out on the dark
water.

Photo by Silver Birch (Street Art, Los Angeles)