![]() ![]() It was first published in 1933, and was shortly thereafter the inspiration for the movie “The Werewolf of London” (a movie I actually saw as an adolescent, when it was re-run cable), although the Hollywood version shares almost no similarities with the book other than the parallel structure of the title. ![]() But if there was a novel that was responsible for entrenching the werewolf into popular culture before the Universal Monster movies, this would be it. Unlike the works of Bram Stoker or Mary Shelley, the werewolf legend has no one classic definitive novel that it is based on. You wouldn't think those two things would go together, but Guy Endore does a good job of combining them into a fascinating story. It manages to combine my childhood interest in classic horror movies and werewolf stories, with my interest in the Paris Commune. When I stumbled upon this book title while searching through Amazon, I thought, “Now here’s a book that should be really up my alley.” ![]()
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