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In this fascinating book Brian J. Frost presents the first fullscale surveyof werewolf literature covering both fiction and nonfiction works. Heidentifies principal elements in the werewolf myth considers various theoriesof the phenomenon of shapeshifting surveys nonfiction books and traces themyth from its origins in ancient superstitions to its modern representations infantasy and horror fiction. Frosts analysis encompasses fanciful medievalbeliefs popular works by Victorian authors scholarly treatises and medicalpapers and short stories from pulp magazines of the 1930s and 1940s. Revealingthe complex nature of the werewolf phenomenon and its tremendous and continuinginfluence The Essential Guide to Werewolf Literature is destined to become astandard reference on the subject. «
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