The Book of Werewolves [Illustrated] [Annotated] (The Lycan Le...

* The ultimate book of werewolves and the blood madness of lycanthropy* 35 classic woodcuts and illustrations* Uniquely re-edited and annotatedSHOCKING AND UNSETTLING even by the standards of today, Sabine Baring-Gould’s brilliant 1865 scholarly treatise on lycanthropy—THE BOOK OF WEREWOLVES—comes into its own at last in this beautiful Wonderland Imprints Illustrated Treasury Edition. Considered for over a century as one of the masterpieces of occult and supernatural studies, THE BOOK OF WEREWOLVES is not only an analysis of the paranormal phenomenon of the Lycan and his progeny, the children of the night. Rather, it is also an elaborate historical study, a legendarium of twisted religion and superstition, and the first revelation of Lycanthropy as a mental disease, a madness which afflicts cannibalistic serial killers with the belief that their horrible crimes of terror against the innocent have caused them to degenerate into savage and predatory beasts. Hauntingly illustrated with rare woodcuts, engravings, paintings and etchings spanning several centuries, the Wonderland Imprints edition of the BOOK OF WEREWOLVES has been meticulously prepared, re-edited and annotated to provide the modern reader with the finest version of Sabine Baring-Gould’s enduring masterpiece. This is the establishing volume of the Lycan Lexicon, the tales of the lupine predators who stalk our nightmares. Do you dare to learn the black secret, the truth behind the werewolf myth? Come find out!(Contains the original tome in full, with unique annotations and dozens of illustrations. 16 chapters, 56,000 words, 200 pages.)

About the Author

About the Author: "The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould (28 January 1834 - 2 January 1924) was an English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar. His bibliography lists more than 500 separate publications. His family home, Lewtrenchard Manor near Okehampton, Devon, has been preserved as he rebuilt it and is now a hotel. He is remembered particularly as a writer of hymns, the best-known being "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and "Now the Day Is Over", and the desk at which he wrote these hymns is still preserved at the hotel. He also translated the carol "Gabriel's Message" from Basque to English.His education at The King's School, Warwick lasted just a few months in 1846 - he caught whooping-cough and was ordered to go abroad for the sake of his health. He then went up to Cambridge earning the degrees of B.A. in 1857, then M.A. in 1860 from Clare College." (Quote from wikipedia.org)

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