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By Brad Steiger

With 250 entries, this up-to-date filmography and source is the encyclopedic advisor to all issues lycanthropic and a desirable compendium of comparative mythology and folklore. Delving into the fifteenth century to discover the origins of the werewolf legend, it really is an eye-opening, blood-pounding journey during the a while, touchdown at the doorstep of creatures like hirsute mass-murderer Albert Fish, Michael Lupo (Lupo is "wolf" in Italian), and Fritz Haarman who slaughtered and ate his victims–selling the leftovers as steaks and roasts in his butcher store. The images and drawings supply hair-raising facts of odd and obsessional habit during the centuries, and a invaluable chronology of lycanthropic actions dates again 140,000 years to the 1st blending of human and lupine blood. Werewolf hunters of every age will savor the distinct part on slaying the beast, whereas strength sufferers will locate the knowledge on detecting and warding away the occasional wayward wolfman extra to their fast liking—if no longer need.

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