PUBLISHED SHORT STORY of WARD COURIER: "The Hunters," Conclusion Under the pen name Mason Winfield (c) 2001 Even if he believed the answer was 'Yes,' I knew Lang would ignore it at first. He repacked his tools in the case that held compartments for each of them and placed it in the locker bag. Then he seemed to realize how rude it would be to leave even a flippant question dangling. "Even there are the signs that we haven't got them right. The fact that the lore surrounding the vampire and the werewolf... the rakshasa, the chindi, the berbalang, the skin-walker... is so cloudily similar is a sign that we're talking about the same critter, at least in respect to its aversions - salt, garlic, crosses, other quirky things - and its mortality - silver weapons, stakes through the heart. I'm

