WEREWOLVES: The Lycanthrope 5 Classic Books MegaBundle

Legends and eyewitness accounts of werewolves can be found in almost every spot on the globe—and even within the records of ancient Greece and earlier. Though many Westerners tend to associate folk beliefs about lycanthropy with nations like Hungary, Romania, and Russia, belief in werewolves has also been found among the inhabitants of South America, India, Mexico, Finland, and China. The earliest recorded story of lycanthropy is about four thousand years old and is recounted as part of the Sumerian legend of Gilgamesh. As Caroline Taylor Stewart notes in The Origin of the Werewolf Superstition, “The belief that a human being is capable of assuming an animal’s form, most frequently that of a wolf, is an almost worldwide superstition.”Just look at Marryat’s contribution to this book, “The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains.” Captain Frederick Marryat was a British naval officer turned writer, and a friend of Charles Dickens, whose autobiographical Mr. Midshipman Easy remains in print to this day. His novelette “The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains” is based on actual legends of the region. In his still-horrifying tale he brings those ancient legends into his own era and, via its presence in this anthology, into ours as well.Every tale of those who transform when the moon is full and bright in this mammoth collection is the result of careful research and brilliant imagination. Each is a classic. Included are:The Man-WolfWagner, the Wehr-WolfThe Wolf-LeaderThe White WolfThe WerewolfThe beast, it seems, has always been with us: the ferocious, the insane, the bestial, the animalistic...the werewolf seems to be perpetually lurking within us all, just needing a bite, a scratch or maybe just any thin excuse to get out and run rampant.

Reviews

News