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Kaminsky, Stuart

"Full Moon Over Moscow" {/28/}

[In The Ultimate Werewolf by Preiss]

• [Result: LY.] Now that the party has erased tradition who remembers the warnings about werewolves? -28

Keillor, Garrison

"Zeus the Lutheran" {/102/}

[in The New Yorker]
[reprinted in The Book of Guys; Keillor, Garrison; ?] [BBT]

• [Cause: MA? Result: MU/AN.] Zeus becomes trapped in the body of a vacationing Lutheran minister, while the minister's consciousness goes into the body of a stray dog. Not a bad little story, and the minister's perspective on this is fairly central to the story. -102

Keisler, Wayne

"The Buck" {/Ph/}

[http://www.lycanon.org/transcontest/1/TheBuck.html]

• Cause: MA? Result: BX/AN. -Ph (98/04/06)

Keizer, Gregg

"What Seen But the Wolf" {/Ph/}

[in Isaac Asimov's Fantasy!; ed. McCarthy, Shawna; Dial Press; 1985; 0385230176; $12.95 hardback] [BB] [BBT]

• Result: LY?. Not read, but appears to be an interesting Viking lycanthropy story -Ph

Keyes, Daniel [Bo]

"Flowers for Algernon" (book and ss) {Ph//}

(see book list for info)

Killough, Lee [Bo] [AL]

"The Leopard's Daughter" (book and ss) {/Ph/}

(see book list for info)

Kim

"Just Another Day" {/Ph/}

[http://www.lycanon.org/transcontest/1/JustAnotherDay.html]

• Result: BX/AN. Complete transformation into raccoon. -Ph (98/04/06)

Kimbriel, Katharine

"Night Calls" {/Ph/}

[in Werewolves, by Yolen and Greenberg]

Kingsbury, Donald

"The Survivor" {/Ph/} [RR]

[?]

• [Cause: GM?.] The Raymond's Review hints that transformation through bioengineering may take place. -Ph

Kipling, Rudyard

"Mark of the Beast" {Ph//}

[in Werewolf! by Pronzini]

• [Rating: X Cause: X Result: X Significance: X Description: X Saturation: X.]
• One of the classics. Lycanthropy through a curse. -Ph

Knight, Damon [Bo] [AL] [BR]

"Four in One" {/77/}

[in Galaxy, 1957]
[in In Deep; Victor Gollancz,(UK) 1964]

• [Cause: AX? Result: BX/BC.] On a newly discovered planet, four explorers end up in the body of a large amoeboid creature; all but their nervous systems has been digested, but the amoeboid body appears to be under their control, and communication is possible between them. There is conflict about what they are to do with their new body... -77

"Maid to Measure" {/38/}

[in 100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories; eds. Asimov, Greenberg, Olander; Avon; 1980; 0380507730; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]

• Short, but worth it. Fantasy. -38

Koja, Kathe [BL]

"Angels' Moon" {/11,28/}

[In The Ultimate Werewolf by Preiss]

• Rating: 3 Result: LY Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: -. -11
• A very strange short story from a werewolf's point of view. -28

Koke, Jak; Koke, Jonathan

"Deadwise" {/79/}

[in Amazing Stories, August 1992]

• [Cause: AS? Result: IN?.]
• AI planted in clone body. Cyberpunk. -79

Koontz, Dean [Bo]

"Hardshell" {78//}

[In Predators; eds. Ed Gorman, Martin Greenberg; Roc; 1994; 0451452267; $4.99] [BB] [BBT]

• Rating: 5 Cause: NA Result: BM Signifigance: + Description: + Saturation: +. An excellent story! A lone LAPD detective follows a suspect wanted in a string of murders into a warehouse on a rainy night, only to find that he is a great deal more than a psychopath. Terrific writing, reads like the climax of many of Koontz's books. -78

Kuttner, Henry [AL]

"A Gnome There Was" {/29,Ph/}

[In The Great SF Stories: 3; eds. Asimov, Greenberg; DAW; 1980; 0879975237; $2.25] [BB] [BBT]
[In The Best of Harry Kuttner; Kuttner, Henry; Nelson Doubleday; ?] [BBT]

• A truly bizarre 'transformation' story... more like fantasy than SF. -29
• [Cause: MA? Result: BX Saturation: +.] Definitely lands a + Saturation rating... A human is changed into a gnome, and the gnome leader can shapechange others. -Ph

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