SOURCE: See, Carolyn. “Wolf Dreams Howl with Fears from Life.” Los Angeles Times Book Review (19 November 1990): E6.

In the following review of Dream of the Wolf, See observes that Bradfield expresses a sense of loneliness and hopelessness through his bizarre fictional characters.

Scott Bradfield's 13 stories in Dream of the Wolf are strange, weird, bizarre, freaky and right on the money.

In the title piece, a nice man named Larry works in Santa Monica in some hell pit called The Tower Tire & Rubber Co., but lately he's been dreaming of wolves.

As Larry tells his company counselor, “When I dream of the wolf, I am the wolf. I've been wolves in New York, Montana and Beirut. It's as if time and space, dream and reality, have just opened up, joined me with everything, everything real. I'm living the one life, understand? The life of the hunter and the prey...