Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark: The White Wolf

The White Wolf is pretty much a standard tale of comeuppance. It's about a guy who kills a shit ton of wolves and eventually pays for it.

In the story, the excess of timber wolves in the area is causing them to encroach on people's land and eat their livestock. So the state puts a bounty on them, paying ten dollars for each pelt turned in.

Enter Bill Williams. He was a butcher, but seeing as there could be good money in it, he decides to hunt the wolves. And he is good. He is really fucking good. He kills over 500 wolves each year for five years. That's over 2,500 wolves! Fucking wolf holocaust up in this bitch.

Well, after five years the wolf population was obviously very thin, probably near extinct in the area. So Bill decides to stop killing them. Since they made him rich, he vows to never harm a wolf again. That is, until the mysterious white wolf shows up.

The white wolf has been spotted all over the countryside killing livestock. But this is no ordinary wolf. People who have shot it say the bullet's didn't have any effect on it. Bill doesn't concern himself with the wolf until one fateful night the wolf kills HIS PET COW!

DUN DUN DUNN!

Bill can't let such an injustice stand. He decides to get back into the wolf game to avenge his beloved heffer. I guess he forgot about the whole 'bullets don't do shit to it' thing. So he ties a baby lamb to a tree as bait and waits for that bastard to show up.

The next morning the lamb is still alive, but Bill isn't so lucky. He's had his throat ripped out, with no wolf tracks to be found. Sweet justice. Everyone knows you don't fuck with the spirit of the wolf. They will seriously fuck your ass.

Not fuck your ass literally... but you will be fucked.

Not literally though.