The Lineage of the Werewolf (Waldemar Daninsky)

Paperback. 40 pages. 29 full-color illustrations. Illustrated story. This series starts with The Lineage of the Werewolf, an illustrated story that shows the whole of Waldemar Daninsky, the legendary wolfman created by Paul Naschy for the big screen. This first book, based on The Beast and the Magic Sword screenplay, written by Paul Naschy in 1983, tells the origin of the curse on Daninsky’s clan. The story starts in Cracovia in 938 a. D. The emperor Otton the Great wants the noble Irineus Daninsky to fight in single combat against Vulko the undefeated and feared Magyar warlord. As revenge Amese, witch and Vulko’s concubine, spells a curse that will doom Irineus Daninsky’s offsprings. After that, we are taken to the Spanish city of Toledo in 1580. There we find the noble Polish Waldemar Daninsky for the first time. He got there after going all around the world looking for a remedy to cure his family curse. A wise Jewish man, called Shalom Yehudá will try to help him but the the Holy Inquisition won’t make things easy.

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