The Howling is a 1977 horror novel by Gary Brandner, first published by Fawcett as a paperback original.

When middle-class wife Karyn Beatty is attacked and raped in her Los Angeles home, she suffers a miscarriage and a nervous breakdown.

She and her husband, Roy, leave the city and go to stay in the secluded California mountain village of Drago while Karyn recuperates.

As tension between the couple increases, Roy begins an affair with one of the local women, a shopkeeper named Marcia Lura.

[3] In 2011, Books of the Dead republished it as a standalone title and included it in a 2013 anthology edition with its two sequels.