Werewolf Stories | Free Book
From today's lycanthropic creatures found in pop culture such as Dracula, Twilight and An American Werewolf in London to the earliest mentions in folklore of the shape-shifting legend, Werewolf Stories: Shape-Shifters, Lycanthropes, and Man-Beasts is an eye-opening tour through the ages of all things werewolf. Along the way, readers land at the doorstep of creatures like serial killer Fritz Haarmann, tiger people and their thirst for human blood, Romulus and Remus, the legendary founders of Rome, shapeshifters of all kinds and sizes, and even a spell to repel werewolves. This fascinating tome provides 140,000 years of blood-pounding evidence of strange and obsessional behavior. It tells of stories of becoming a werewolf and the intricacies of slaying the beast. A true homage to the creature, it includes full moon of topics such as …
Fenrir, the wolf child of the giantess Angrboda and the god Loki, from the Old Norse myth of RagnarokNotorious serial killers, including Peter Stumpp and Michael Lupo, who thought themselves to be—and modeled their crimes on—werewolvesCoyote people, tricksters, and were-animals of Navajo legendThe Basque butchers of Louisiana and the loup-garouDiana, the goddess of the wilderness and the hunt, and her pack of hunting dogs, who once ruled all the dark forests of EuropeLeopard creature-men and the deadly cult whose members expressed their were-leopard lust for human blood and flesh that has been in existence in West Africa for several hundred yearsThe “werewolf of the Dordogne,” Francis Leroy, and his uncontrollable bloodlust during the full moonThe secret terrorist group Organization Werewolf, established in 1923, and its possible allegiance to Adolf HitlerGhouls from Arabic folklore, the demonic Djinns that hover near burial grounds and sustain themselves on human flesh stolen from gravesTasmania’s thylacine and sightings of the “probably extinct” creature and its remarkable—and frightening—jaw capacityAlaska’s Kushtaka and other stories of the Bigfoot man-beastPuerto Rico’s chupacabra and its powerful goat-like legs, three-clawed feet, and penchant for sucking bloodThe Doñas de Fuera of Sicily, small fairies who looked human, aside from their paw-like feet, and were cruel and dangerous when crossedEnkidu, perhaps our earliest written record of a man-beast that appears on a Babylonian fragment circa 2000 BCE and tells the story of King Gilgamesh and his werewolf-like friend in The Epic of GilgameshAnd many more stories and histories of werewolves, night-stalkers, lycanthropes, and man-beasts
Noted cryptozoologists and paranormal researchers Nick Redfern and Brad Steiger share personal stories and encounters with werewolves in Werewolf Stories. They take a deep dive into the legends, the history, the pop-culture take on the man-beast. It's a wild and weird road-trip into the mystery-filled domain of the disturbingly real world of shape-shifters and werewolves!
In The Press
“… Werewolf Stories is the latest compilation of stories and
research by intrepid researcher Nick Redfern, along with research
contributed by the late Brad Steiger. The accounts and anecdotes
assembled for this book are entertaining, intriguing, and downright
terrifying. This is another excellent offering from the prolific
Redfern.” —Los Angeles Book Review
“… the stories in
Werewolf Stories read like stories instead of encyclopedia
articles, which makes much of it good fun to read for spooky-tale
aficionados, whether you're the kind who believes such things could be
true or the kind who lives with your paws on planet Earth.” —Psychobabble
“… a thought-provoking book on the werewolf mythology. …
The knowledge that pours out from Nick Redfern and the late Brad
Steiger on werewolves is mind staggering. If you want to go beyond
Hollywood's version of werewolves, I would highly suggest that you
pick up this masterpiece book and get an in depth look at these
monsters!” —Unexplained-Mysteries.com
“… book takes
readers on a journey that spans centuries. … learn about real people
who claimed to be werewolves and folks who could manifest otherworldly
beasts. Learn about werewolf hunters, werewolf experts, and different
kinds of canine-like beasties. And then keep going and find out why
you probably shouldn’t go into the woods alone in the dark. Duh, like
you need to be told. …” —Keizertimes
“The 1930s
brought us Lon Chaney Jr. as the classic Wolf Man. Decades
later, Rick Baker’s far more advanced special effects gave us
An American Werewolf in London. And our Hollywood werewolves
have only gotten more sophisticated and terrifying. But centuries
earlier, there was Gilles Garnier, who in 1572 was accused of being a
real-life werewolf. With real horror. And real victims. … As
Werewolf Stories recounts, “Garnier … ‘being in the form of a
wolf,’ seized a ten-year-old girl in a vineyard and ‘there he slew her
with both hands, seemingly paws, and with his teeth carried some of
her flesh home to his wife.’” This is just one of many lycanthropic
tales spanning the course of humanity presented in
Werewolf Stories. Others include exorcisms that freed the
possessed from evil werewolf spirits, serial killers who believed they
were werewolves and modeled their crimes on them, the Ouija Wolf Girl
who was cursed by a spirit, and even werecats. … The collection was
culled from Redfern’s research and from the prolific cryptozoology
files of Steiger, who passed away in 2018 at the age of 82. …” —Weird Historian
- Title: Werewolf Stories | Free Book
- Author: Steven
- Created at : 2024-10-21 17:42:56
- Updated at : 2024-10-26 23:44:23
- Link: https://novels-ebooks.techidaily.com/211010135-9781578598304-werewolf-stories/
- License: This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.