Sink your teeth into the book that tells you more than you ever thought you wanted to know about werewolves--facts, fiction, folklore, and popular culture from around the world!
This book touches on life and literature, humanities and sciences, history, philosophy, theology, medicine, law, movies, and comic books. This is red meat for all werewolf fanciers.
If you like horror movies- there are insightful bites on more than 12 silent films and 200 talkies related to the werewolf and their transformations. Included is exhausted bibliographies and selections from werewolf stories from research in many languages.
Although the world is moving fast becoming what it has never been, yet it cannot escape our primal roots. The wolfman is half human and half beast, and we are too, truth be told, whether the moon is full or the rent is due.
Werewolves is a contribution to comparative literature, the history of ideas, the history of folklore, and to popular culture. For it is in the cracked mirror of the horror genre that one can see the human face. The study of Werewolves in popular culture holds that mirror up to mankind and shows us that today as ever, "men become beasts out of greed."
NOTE! This book is a 2001 vintage copy.
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