Alfie & the Werewolf of Washington Square Park

Alfie is enjoying a break in New York City with his friends Tally and Milos. Alfie’s dad has invited them to watch the filming of a new teenage horror movie. It’s about werewolves and love and is called Once Bitten, Never Die. Alfie is not keen on the love parts of the film, but is enjoying the action sequences filmed in and around Manhattan. That is, until a late-night film shoot in Washington Square Park ends in an encounter with a real werewolf. Brave-heart Tally is savagely scratched by the rabid beast, but the wound disappears immediately, so no one believes what has happened. Whizz-kid Milos, aware that the new moon will disappear in four days, knows they have a limited time to locate the werewolf that bit Tally, decipher the codex that holds its secret, undo the curse that binds it, rescue Tally from a fate more dire than death, and help Alfie’s dad finish the film. The tracks of the werewolf lead them through old-town Manhattan, across the heights of the Brooklyn Bridge, and into the dark-side of Park Slope, before eventually ending on a lonely road in upstate New York. A path where a legend has already walked and become a part of local folklore: the Beast of Bray Road.
FWIW: They walk (and sometimes lope) among us!
(Middle Grade & Junior Fiction for KS2 & readers aged 9 to 14).