Review of The Procedure for Payment of Host Supervising Teachers

"All I can do is be me, whoever that is" - pretty much the 
 gist of The Procedure for Payment of Host Supervising Teachers, 
a classic, almost novel-length novella about a lecherous, 


 asthmatic debt collector who is also a werewolf and who, with 
his PI friend, finds himself hunting a killer who in turn hunts 
 werewolves. Does the moral structure of the children’s story — 


with its clearly marked poles of good and evil, its narrative 
 of dispossession and vindication — illuminate the nature of 
authoritarian rule? Or does The Procedure for Payment of Host 


 Supervising Teachers reveal fascism as a terrible fairy tale 
brought to life? (Whether anyone would rather see this than curl 
 up on the sofa with the latest episode of Slut Wars is a question.)