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The Black Book of the Werewolf

The Black Book of the Werewolf

Mrs. Greene
3.1/5 ( ratings)
This huge collection of 32 gruesome and brilliant werewolf short stories and novellas represent some of the best of the 19th and early 20th century, when the werewolf was at its full height of terror. The Werewolf's bestial ferocity, superhuman strength, sadistic cruelty, and ravenous hunger make him the very epitome of supernatural terror.

The legends surrounding the werewolf can be traced back to the earliest records of civilization. In folklore the werewolf is depicted as the embodiment of evil and has dominated above all creatures as the most treacherous, savage, and demonic slaves of Satans.

The werewolf theme in fiction was introduced by Marie de France in her 13th century romance "Lais of the Bisclavret". Though common in folklore the werewolf doesn't make a major reappearance in fiction until the19th century with the Gothic novel, whose writers drew inspiration from the gruesome legends and folkore of ancient and middle ages, such as "Hugues, the Wer-Wolf" by Sutherland Menzies, and "The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains" by Frederick Marryat, whose villian featues a demonic female, with an insatiable appetite for human male flesh.

The late 19th and early 20th century saw an explosion of werewolf short stories and novels, including "The Eyes of the Panther" by famed occultist Ambrose Bierce and the famed English occult story writer Algernon Blackwood, who wrote a number of werewolf stories, such as "Running Wolf" . A seductive female who transforms into a werewolf and devours her male victims also make an appearane in Clemence Houseman's acclaimed novella "The Were-wolf" .

Also included is "A True Discourse Declaring the Damnable Life and Death of One Stubbe Peeter", written in 1590. Stubbe was a German farmer and alleged serial killer and cannibal, also known as the "Werewolf of Bedburg". He confessed to killing and eating fourteen children, two pregnant women, and their fetuses. One of the children was his own son, whose brain he was reported to have devoured. In addition to this he confessed to having had intercourse with a succubus sent to him by the Devil.
Table of Contents

"Bisclavret " by Marie de France 1170
"Stubbe Peeter" by Anonymous 1590
"The Severed Arm" by Anonymous 1820
"Hugues, The Wer-Wolf" by Sutherland Menzies 1838
"The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains" by Frederick Marryat 1839
"Jean Grenier, A French Werewolf" by Sabine Baring-Gould 1865
"Monare" by Mrs. Richard S. Greenough 1872
"Bound by a Spell" by The Hon. Mrs Greene 1885
"The Wolf" by Guy De Maupassant 1887
"The White Wolf of Kostopchin" by Sir Gilbert Campbell 1889
"The Mark of the Beast" by Rudyard Kipling 1891
"The Eyes of the Panther" by Ambrose Bierce 1891
"The Other Side" by Count Eric Stenbock 1893
"The Were-Wolf" by Clemence Housman 1896
"The Werwolves" by Henry Beaugrand 1898
"The Gray Cat" by Barry Pain 1901
"Where There Is Nothing, There Is God" by W.B. Yeats 1903
"Amina" by Edward Lucas White 1906
"The Camp of the Dog" by Algernon Blackwood 1908
"The Gray Wolf" by George MacDonald 1909
"Gabriel-Ernest" by Saki 1910
"She-Wolf" by Saki 1910
"The Werewolf" by Eugene Field 1911
"The Thing in the Forest" by Bernard Capes 1915
"The White Dog" by Feodor Sologub 1915
"He of the Hairy Face" by Sir Hugh Clifford 1916
"The Were-Tiger" by Sir Hugh Clifford 1916
"Running Wolf" by Algernon Blackwood 1921
"The Hidden Beast" by J.D. Beresford 1921
"The Voice in the Night" by W.J. Wintle 1921
"Lady Into Fox" by David Garnett 1922
"The Fox Woman" by Abraham Merritt 1922
Language
English
Format
Kindle Edition

The Black Book of the Werewolf

Mrs. Greene
3.1/5 ( ratings)
This huge collection of 32 gruesome and brilliant werewolf short stories and novellas represent some of the best of the 19th and early 20th century, when the werewolf was at its full height of terror. The Werewolf's bestial ferocity, superhuman strength, sadistic cruelty, and ravenous hunger make him the very epitome of supernatural terror.

The legends surrounding the werewolf can be traced back to the earliest records of civilization. In folklore the werewolf is depicted as the embodiment of evil and has dominated above all creatures as the most treacherous, savage, and demonic slaves of Satans.

The werewolf theme in fiction was introduced by Marie de France in her 13th century romance "Lais of the Bisclavret". Though common in folklore the werewolf doesn't make a major reappearance in fiction until the19th century with the Gothic novel, whose writers drew inspiration from the gruesome legends and folkore of ancient and middle ages, such as "Hugues, the Wer-Wolf" by Sutherland Menzies, and "The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains" by Frederick Marryat, whose villian featues a demonic female, with an insatiable appetite for human male flesh.

The late 19th and early 20th century saw an explosion of werewolf short stories and novels, including "The Eyes of the Panther" by famed occultist Ambrose Bierce and the famed English occult story writer Algernon Blackwood, who wrote a number of werewolf stories, such as "Running Wolf" . A seductive female who transforms into a werewolf and devours her male victims also make an appearane in Clemence Houseman's acclaimed novella "The Were-wolf" .

Also included is "A True Discourse Declaring the Damnable Life and Death of One Stubbe Peeter", written in 1590. Stubbe was a German farmer and alleged serial killer and cannibal, also known as the "Werewolf of Bedburg". He confessed to killing and eating fourteen children, two pregnant women, and their fetuses. One of the children was his own son, whose brain he was reported to have devoured. In addition to this he confessed to having had intercourse with a succubus sent to him by the Devil.
Table of Contents

"Bisclavret " by Marie de France 1170
"Stubbe Peeter" by Anonymous 1590
"The Severed Arm" by Anonymous 1820
"Hugues, The Wer-Wolf" by Sutherland Menzies 1838
"The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains" by Frederick Marryat 1839
"Jean Grenier, A French Werewolf" by Sabine Baring-Gould 1865
"Monare" by Mrs. Richard S. Greenough 1872
"Bound by a Spell" by The Hon. Mrs Greene 1885
"The Wolf" by Guy De Maupassant 1887
"The White Wolf of Kostopchin" by Sir Gilbert Campbell 1889
"The Mark of the Beast" by Rudyard Kipling 1891
"The Eyes of the Panther" by Ambrose Bierce 1891
"The Other Side" by Count Eric Stenbock 1893
"The Were-Wolf" by Clemence Housman 1896
"The Werwolves" by Henry Beaugrand 1898
"The Gray Cat" by Barry Pain 1901
"Where There Is Nothing, There Is God" by W.B. Yeats 1903
"Amina" by Edward Lucas White 1906
"The Camp of the Dog" by Algernon Blackwood 1908
"The Gray Wolf" by George MacDonald 1909
"Gabriel-Ernest" by Saki 1910
"She-Wolf" by Saki 1910
"The Werewolf" by Eugene Field 1911
"The Thing in the Forest" by Bernard Capes 1915
"The White Dog" by Feodor Sologub 1915
"He of the Hairy Face" by Sir Hugh Clifford 1916
"The Were-Tiger" by Sir Hugh Clifford 1916
"Running Wolf" by Algernon Blackwood 1921
"The Hidden Beast" by J.D. Beresford 1921
"The Voice in the Night" by W.J. Wintle 1921
"Lady Into Fox" by David Garnett 1922
"The Fox Woman" by Abraham Merritt 1922
Language
English
Format
Kindle Edition

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