Introduction to The Resource FAQ

The resource FAQ is divided into four basic sections: Multimedia, with books both fiction and non, songs, games, and video information; Fun, with various silly bits the group has come up with, as well as information on costuming; Changing, with collected information on ways to physically shift and become "un-cursed"; and Odds & Ends, with various names for shapeshifters, Internet resources, furries, and a blank werecard.

Multimedia

Games about shapeshifters

There have been but a sad few video games dealing with shapeshifters in past years. Following are some excerpts from AHWW discussing those few out there:

: A few years ago, I heard of a video game out on the struggling Sega CD system entitled "Wolfchild." It was said to have a five-minute long introductory story, including a PS. Does anyone have this game? If so, was the PS worth watching?

I had said game on the Amiga. It was okay, one of the better platformers I've played, with a nice PSing scene - lightning strikes kid, lightning lifts, wolf's head reappears. :)

If you've played Brutal Paws of Fury, there's a character called Kendo. A coyote actually, but still very canine.

There was an old 8-bit Nintendo game simply entitled "Werewolf." (I think I mentioned this in a post before... God, do I have to get a life or what?)

I recall a C64 game called werewolf in london or something. I remember trekking round the underground trying not to get 'lectricuted in my hunt for crosses anyway ... :)

Also, there's a PC game called ... called ... begins with an E ... Ecstatica! That's the one! That's a pretty freaky game actually, lots of atmos. Cool beasties, if not particularly pleasant. Check it out ;)

Hey... anyone remember a game called "Altered Beast?" It was an arcade game, but I think they also did a home VG version.

I Also Have Wolfchild for Sega and On an Amiga format its from JVC and also used copies float around.

Another is Werewolf "The Last worrior" Have that in Nintendo format but would like a Sega version myself.

Songs about shapeshifters

There are generally very few songs specifically about shapeshifters per se; but there are LOTS of songs that either evoke a certain mood that some find conducive to shifting, or seem to deal with the subject in some manner. Everybody's got their favorites... here's the list we've come up with so far, in no particular order, and far from final (note that these are taken from many sources, and the original authors’ comments have been left in):

Warren Zevon - "Werewolves of London" (the classic. If this isn't on the *Wolf* soundtrack, somebody screwed up)

Metallica - "Of Wolf and Man" (overplayed album, but great song)

Cure - "The Hanging Garden" (from *Pornography*, easily their best album; dark and really creepy)

CCR - "Bad Moon Rising" ('nuff said)

Belly - "Low Red Moon" (Tanya Donnelly. sigh...)

Joe Satriani - "Big Bad Moon" (vocals almost a growl. Cool.)

Golden Earring - "Clear Night Moonlight" (showing my age, I guess, but it is a cool song)

Sisters of Mercy - "This Corrosion" (on days like this/ in times like these/ I feel an animal deep inside /

heel to haunch on bended knees...)

Rush - "By-Tor and the Snow Dog" (distorted growling sounds & and an epic battle. What more could you want?)

Grateful Dead - "Dire Wolf" (don't murder me)

Sam the Sham and the Pharoes - "Little Red Riding Hood"

There are several songs by Glenn Danzig that deal with werewolves/lycanthropy, such as "Am I Demon" ("Am I beast or am I human/Am I just like you?").

Also, Glenn Danzig's "Black Aria"... one particular song deals with shapeshifters; the whole album is fantastic for setting a dark mood. Instrumental.

Venom - "Cry Wolf"

Sting - "Moon over Bourbon Street" from the Dream of the Blue Turtles album. Liner notes say that it's inspired by Anne Rice's "Interview with a Vampire", but there's a wolf howl there right in the last few seconds... and it sets a great mood.

Duran Duran - "Hungry Like the Wolf"

A-Ha - "Cry Wolf"

Ozzy Osborne - "Bark at the Moon"

Nine Inch Nails - "Closer"

Genesis - "White Mountain"

The Cult - "She Sells Sanctuary", Howling Mix--one of oodles of remixes of this well worked song, it is almost eight minutes long. It begins with electronic howls and has two of those howls inserted into the song at varying points. No other wolf connections directly, but still a neat song, and the howls are great. The lyrics are hard to make out, and just as hard to understand even when you do read them printed out. This song is not on any album, but is available in England on a single off She Sells Sanctuary, or on a CD entitled "The Love Mixes." In the US, it is only available as an import, so be ready to special order and shell out. Also, "Brother Wolf, Sister Moon" of the _Love_ album, this song is a must hear for any lycanthrope out there.

Walter Egan - "Full Moon Fire" Mtv used to show it around '82 or so. Pretty typical crappy video, but has the singer watching "The Wolf Man" in a movie theatre and turning into a Lon Chaney Jr. type o' wolfman. Also, although the song has nothing to do with werewolves, Real Life's "Send me an angel" featured a wolfman riding around in the woods on a horse (note: this is the original, not "Send Me an Angel '88" or whatever it was).

The Tragically Hip - "I'm a Werewolf Baby" Also pretty obscure and only noteworthy due to the title.

David Bowie - "Cat People" by from the Cat People Soundtrack. I think this one should be pretty obvious.

Coil - "Snow-The Drift Mix" from the single of the same title. Very evocative industrial track simulating a snowstorm and the first song I ever heard which really provoked much of a response.

Siouxsie and the Banshees - "The Lighthouse". In one portion of the song all you can hear is the growling of the rest of the group in the background.

Seraphim Gothique

Swans - "Jane Mary cry one tear" and "Mother/father"(and others) Even though everyone knows Michael Gira is an ancient vampire, he's written a few songs about werewolves. Also, Jarboe's howl on "Mother/father" is rather nice. "Let it come down" also mentions shapeshifters in one verse.

Syd Barrett - "Rats" A bit of creative interpretation, not hard to do since the man was way off his rocker, and this is all about werewolves. Btw "Wolfpack", like at least half of Syd's songs, is about vampires.

Cranes - "Leaves of summer" I can't understand a word of it, but it's the best song I've ever heard, and therefore has to be about werewolves.

Sunshine Blind - "Is there" (and most everything else) There's no need to explain this to anyone who has heard it, and if ya haven't, ya should.

Current93 - "KillyKillKilly (a fire sermon)" This is all about militant misanthropic weres. The rant in it has caused me to shift before. Other C93 pieces may also be on lycanthropic themes ("To feed the moon", perhaps?) but it's very hard to tell.

Curve - "Doppelganger" It doesn't make too much linear sense, but with all these shapeshifting - related lines, it's more than a bit difficult to ignore.

Colourbox - "Tarantula" (also covered to good effect by This Mortal Coil.) Take the word 'tarantula' out of the chorus (maybe it was planted there for deception...) and the song is applicable to all shapeshifters.

KMFDM - "Brute" I won't vouch for this one, but a friend of mine who's listened to it many more times than me maintains it's about lycanthropy and the accelerated healing powers of weres.

Miguel Bose - "Como un lobo (Like a wolf)". Romantic (Yuk!) but good for you were girlfriend: A Werewolf fall in love and describe him girlfriend like only a wolf know.

La Union - "Un hombre lobo en Paris ( A werewolf in Paris )" This song is based in the novel "The wolf-man" and talks about a imaginary trip of Denise (a wolf that can convert in human) to Paris.

The Werewolves - "Hollywood Millionaire," (RCA 11283)--a late '70s/early '80s track off the group's rather unsuccessful album "Ship of Fools."

The Wolf Man - "Strange" (Okeh 7269)--1950s blues.

The Five Man Electrical Band - "Werewolf" (Polydor 14221)—Spring 1974 rock song.

The Fourth Way - "Werewolf" --early 1970s "progressive" album, with all tracks being instrumental performances.

The Frantics - "Werewolf" (Dolton 16)--Winter 1960 instrumental from the Pacific Northwest. Charted nationally at #83.

The Wolfmen "Watusi Beat" (Bobbette 380)--1987 psychedelic rock in the '60s tradition.

Christian Death - "Hour of the Wolf" This is by the Rozz Williams version of C. Death, so the lyrics make no sense, but the word "wolf" occurs quite often and there's lots of wolves howling and growling.

Pain Teens - "Bannoy" A highly disturbing story of an abused little boy who thinks he's a dog... a were horror story that will scare even weres.

The Cramps - "Teenage Werewolf" occasionally seen under the name "(I Was a) Teenage Werewolf." Rereleased on Elvira's Hallowe'en compilation. I've never heard it in its entirety-sorry.

Oingo Boingo - "Pedestrian Wolves"

Moonspell - "A Werewolf Masquerade" from the cd called Wolfheart; they play doom metal

"Ruttens madrigal" or "The madrigal of the Night" Most of their songs are about wolves,werewolves etc. They play black metal.

Yesterday I was out CD-hunting when I came across a 1997 single by the name of "Werewolf Ears." I heard a snippet from it, and it was awful; however, I nonetheless thought you might be interested. The CD is credited to Spider Virus, a band from Nashville, and scenes from the video can easily be found on the Internet.

Second, the band Troll issued an album in 1969 with a track entitled "Werewolf and Witchbreath." While I doubt it offers the most sensitive treatment of lycanthropy the music world will ever know, the album's rerelease not long ago brought the song several outstanding reviews.

-Todd Hunter

Books about shapeshifters

Non-fiction first; then the fiction stuff. Like all the lists, this is far from complete; feel free to email me and suggest new entries. Phaedrus's excellent list of transformation stories, available from ftp.halcyon.com as /local/phaedrus/translist/translist.text; and a much nicer HTML version at "http://www.halcyon.com/phaedrus/translist/translist.html"; is not included in this shortened FAQ due to space limitations.

Non-Fiction

"How to Become a Werewolf: The Fundamentals of Lycanthropic Metamorphosis; Their Principles and Application" by Anton Szandor LaVey (founder of the Church of Satan). In The Devil's Notebook and The Secret Life of a Satanist. An interesting essay, it seems to be more about reaching an animal "mind-state", I haven't tried it myself, but would be interested in hearing from anyone who has.

Shamanism. Mircea Eliade. A basic reference on shamanism all over the world. Also Michael Harner's Way of the Shaman (I think that's the right title).

Seek out also The Celtic Shaman by John Matthews [Element books, ISBN 1-85230-245-3]; note that the totemic animals used in this may be unfamiliar to those grounded in the North American tradition. [Celtic shamanism tends towards salmons, eels, boars, dogs, badgers etc rather than bears and wolves and ravens...]

Wolves and Werewolves. John Pollard (c) 1964 Robert Hale Ltd (UK) PB 1991

ISBN 0-7090-4388-0. Tales of Wolves and Werewolves in history going back as far as the 10th Century up to 1990.

The Illustrated Werewolf. Stephen Jones. Titan books. Sells for $24.95. It's broken down by decades starting with silent movies. There's also a section in the back covering television shows and episodes. It doesn't just cover werewolves though. Any transformation of man (or woman) into any animal is listed. It even covers foreign films.

Transformations by the editors of Time-Life Books. (I know, I know; just trying to be thorough.) Time-Life Books, c1989

A Lycanthropy Reader : werewolves in Western culture. Edited by Charlotte F. Otten Syracuse University Press, 1986

Were-wolf and vampire in Romania. Harry A. Senn. East European Monographs, 1982

The werewolf : in legend, fact, and art. Basil Copper. St. Martin's Press, 1977

Human-wolves among the Navajo. William Morgan. Human Relations Area Files Press, 1970

The Werewolf. Montague Summers. University Books, 1966

Man into Wolf: an anthropological interpretation of sadism, masochism, and lycanthropy. (Sounds interesting, eh?) Robert Eisler. Philosophical Library, 1952

Zoological Mythology or The Legends of Animals. Angelo de Gubernatis (1978 reprint of an 1872 text). New York: Arno Press LC Call #: GR825.G9.1978

El perro negro en el folklore. Rafael Jijena Sanchez. Ediciones Dolmen, 1952

Greek Wolf-lore. Richard Preston Eckels. Philidelphia, 1937

Vampires, werewolves, and demons : twentieth century reports in the psychiatric literature. Richard Noll. Brunner/Mazel, 1991

The Werewolf of Ponkert. H. Warner Munn. Grandon Co, 1958

The Story of Werewolves. Thomas G. Aylesworth. McGraw-Hill, 1978

The Beast Within. Adam Douglas. (1992, London).

PY: 1989

LA: FRENCH; NON-ENGLISH

CP: FRANCE

AB: After a short historical review of the contemporary medical literature, the authors analyze a new and original observation of lycanthropy. He is a 28 years old man, imprisoned for deadly violence, who has been showing, for many years, the belief of being transformed into a werewolf during depersonalization episodes when he presents a lycanthropic behaviour. Our observation is closer to hysteria and mythomania on an antisocial personality, although it seems difficult to place the mental pathology of this alcoholic recidivist delinquent into a nosographical frame.

MESH: Adult-; English-Abstract; Psychosexual-Disorders-psychology MESH:

*Delusions-psychology; *Personality-Disorders-psychology

TG: Case-Report; Human; Male

PT: JOURNAL-ARTICLE; REVIEW; REVIEW-OF-REPORTED-CASES

AN: 90054739

UD: 9002

TI: The social biology of the werewolf trials [letter; comment] CM: Comment on: J R Soc Med 1989 Jan;82(1):37-9

AU: Russell-WM; Russell-C

SO: J-R-Soc-Med. 1989 Jun; 82(6): 379-80

ISSN: 0141-0768

PY: 1989

LA: ENGLISH

CP: ENGLAND

MESH: Great-Britain; History-of-Medicine,-16th-Cent.; History-ofMedicine,17th- Cent.

MESH: *Delusions-history; *Mythology-

TG: Human

PT: COMMENT; HISTORICAL-ARTICLE; LETTER

AN: 90040618

UD: 9002

TI: Werewolves down under--where are they now? [see comments] CM: Comment in: Med J Aust 1990 Apr 16;152(8):448

AU: Yellowlees-PM

AD: Broken Hill Base Hospital and Health Services, NSW.

SO: Med-J-Aust. 1989 Dec 4-18; 151(11-12): 663-5

ISSN: 0025-729X

PY: 1989

LA: ENGLISH

CP: AUSTRALIA

MESH: Anthropology,-Cultural; Australia-; History-of-Medicine,Ancient; History-of-Medicine,-Medieval; History-of-Medicine,-16thCent.; History-of Medicine,-17th-Cent.; History-of-Medicine,-19thCent.; History-of-Medicine,20th-Cent.; Porphyria-psychology; Psychotic-Disorders-history

MESH: *Psychotic-Disorders-psychology

PT: HISTORICAL-ARTICLE; JOURNAL-ARTICLE

AN: 90081505

UD: 9003

TI: Werewolves, vampires and cannibals.

AU: Fahy-T; Wessely-S; David-A

SO: Med-Sci-Law. 1988 Apr; 28(2): 145-9

ISSN: 0025-8024

PY: 1988

LA: ENGLISH

CP: ENGLAND

MESH: *Cannibalism-; *Mental-Disorders; *Superstitions

TG: Human

PT: JOURNAL-ARTICLE; REVIEW; REVIEW,-TUTORIAL

AN: 88260757

UD: 8810

TI: Werewolves down under--where are they now? [letter; comment] CM: Comment on: Med J Aust 1989 Dec 4-18;151(11-12):663-5

AU: Berkley-R

SO: Med-J-Aust. 1990 Apr 16; 152(8): 448

ISSN: 0025-729X

PY: 1990

LA: ENGLISH

CP: AUSTRALIA

MESH: Australia-epidemiology; Mythology-

MESH: *Art-; *Delusions-epidemiology

TG: Human

PT: COMMENT; LETTER

AN: 90231210

UD: 9008

TI: Another case of lycanthropy [letter]

AU: Jackson-PM

SO: Am-J-Psychiatry. 1978 Jan; 135(1): 134-5

ISSN: 0002-953X

PY: 1978

LA: ENGLISH

CP: UNITED-STATES

MESH: Guilt-; Middle-Age

MESH: *Aggression-; *Delusions-psychology; *Libido-; *Psychotic Disorders psychology

TG: Case-Report; Human; Male

PT: LETTER

AN: 78058473

UD: 7803

SB: AIM

TI: A case of lycanthropy.

AU: Rosenstock-HA; Vincent-KR

SO: Am-J-Psychiatry. 1977 Oct; 134(10): 1147-9

ISSN: 0002-953X

PY: 1977

LA: ENGLISH

CP: UNITED-STATES

MESH: Body-Image; Delusions-therapy; Middle-Age; Projection-; Schizophrenia-therapy; Sex-Disorders-diagnosis

MESH: *Delusions-diagnosis; *Schizophrenia-diagnosis

TG: CaseReport; Female; Human; Male

PT: JOURNAL-ARTICLE

AN: 77264354

UD: 7712

SB: AIM

TI: Lycanthropy revisited.

AU: Surawicz-FG; Banta-R

SO: Can-Psychiatr-Assoc-J. 1975 Nov; 20(7): 537-42

ISSN: 0008-4824

PY: 1975

LA: ENGLISH

CP: CANADA

MESH: Adult-; Delusions-drug-therapy; Delusions-history; Depersonalization Disorder-drug-therapy; Hallucinations-drug-therapy; Lysergic-Acid-Diethylamide; Schizophrenia,-Paranoid-complications; Superstitions-; Thioridazine-therapeutic use; Trifluoperazine therapeutic-use

MESH: *Delusions-etiology; *Depersonalization-Disorder-etiology; *Organic-MentalDisorders,-Psychotic-complications; *Psychoses,Substance-Induced-complications

TG: Human; Male

PT: JOURNAL-ARTICLE

AN: 76090124

UD: 7605

TI: Lycanthropy: a review [see comments]

CM: Comment in: J R Soc Med 1989 Jun;82(6):379-80

AU: Fahy-TA

AD: Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospital, London.

SO: J-R-Soc-Med. 1989 Jan; 82(1): 37-9

ISSN: 0141-0768

PY: 1989

LA: ENGLISH

CP: ENGLAND

MESH: Delusions-history; History-of-Medicine,-Ancient; History-ofMedicine, Medieval; History-of-Medicine,-15th-Cent.; History-ofMedicine,-16th-Cent.; History-of-Medicine,-18th-Cent.; History-ofMedicine,-19th-Cent.; History-of Medicine,-20th-Cent.; MythologyMESH: *Delusions-

TG: Human

PT: HISTORICAL-ARTICLE; JOURNAL-ARTICLE; REVIEW; REVIEW,-TUTORIAL

AN: 89178392 UD: 8907

TI: Multiple serial lycanthropy. A case report.

AU: Dening-TR; West-A

AD: St Crispin Hospital, Northampton, UK.

SO: Psychopathology. 1989; 22(6): 344-7

ISSN: 0254-4962

PY: 1989

LA: ENGLISH

CP: SWITZERLAND

AB: A case is described who exhibited lycanthropy during an acute psychotic illness. During a short period she experienced herself as four different species of animal, an occurrence not previously reported. The phenomenon of lycanthropy is most appropriately regarded as a delusion, but the abnormal subjective experience is stressed, not just the falsely- held belief.

MESH: Adult-; Affective-Disorders,-Psychotic-diagnosis; Animals-; Diagnosis, Differential

MESH: *Affective-Disorders,-Psychotic-psychology; *Delusions psychology; *Hallucinations-psychology

TG: Animal; Case-Report; Female; Human

PT: JOURNAL-ARTICLE

AN: 90311541

UD: 9010

TI: A lycanthropic murderer [letter]

AU: Benezech-M; De-Witte-J; Etcheparre-JJ; Bourgeois-M SO: Am-J-Psychiatry.

1989 Jul; 146(7): 942

ISSN: 0002-953X

PY: 1989

LA: ENGLISH

CP: UNITED-STATES

MESH: Adult-; Antisocial-Personality-Disorder

MESH: *Delusions-; *Depersonalization-Disorder; *Homicide

TG: Case-Report; Human; Male

PT: LETTER

AN: 89300931

UD: 8910

SB: AIM

TI: Lycanthropy: alive and well in the twentieth century.

AU: Keck-PE; Pope-HG; Hudson-JI; McElroy-SL; Kulick-AR

AD: Epidemiology Laboratory, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA 02178. SO: Psychol Med. 1988 Feb; 18(1): 113-20

ISSN: 0033-2917

PY: 1988

LA: ENGLISH

CP: ENGLAND

AB: Lycanthropy, the belief that one has been transformed into an animal (or behaviour suggestive of such a belief), has been described by physicians and clerics since antiquity, but has received scant attention in the modern literature. Some have even thought the syndrome extinct. However, in a review of patients admitted to our centre since 1974, we identified twelve cases of lycanthropy, ranging in duration from one day to 13 years. The syndrome was generally associated with severe psychosis, but not with any specific psychiatric diagnosis or neurological findings, or with any particular outcome. As a rare but colourful presentation of psychosis, lycanthropy appears to have survived into modern times.

MESH: Adolescence-; Adult-; Delusions-complications; Delusions-drugtherapy; Electroencephalography-; Factitious-Disorderscomplications; Psychotic-Disorders-complications

MESH: *Delusions-psychology

TG: Case-Report; Female; Human; Male

PT: JOURNAL-ARTICLE

AN: 88204005

UD: 8808

TI: Lycanthropy lives on.

AU: Coll-PG; O'Sullivan-G; Browne-PJ

SO: Br-J-Psychiatry. 1985 Aug; 147: 201-2

ISSN: 0007-1250

PY: 1985

LA: ENGLISH

CP: ENGLAND

MESH: Aged-; Aggression-; Delusions-therapy; Electroconvulsive Therapy

MESH: *Delusions-diagnosis; *Depersonalization-Disorder-diagnosis TG: Case

Report; Female; Human

PT: JOURNAL-ARTICLE

AN: 86001205

UD: 8601

TI: [Animal metamorphosis (lycanthropy) still exists]

AU: Sirota-P; Schild-K; Ben-Zui-Levi-Y; Elitzur-A

SO: Harefuah. 1994 Jan 16; 126(2): 88-91

ISSN: 0017-7768

PY: 1994

LA: HEBREW; NON-ENGLISH

CP: ISRAEL

MESH: Animals,-Wild; Carnivora-

MESH: *Delusions-

TG: Animal; Human

PT: JOURNAL-ARTICLE; REVIEW; REVIEW,-TUTORIAL

AN: 94193070

UD: 9407

TI: A partial form of lycanthropy with hair delusion in a manic-depressive patient.

AU: Verdoux-H; Bourgeois-M

AD: University of Bordeaux, France.

SO: Br-J-Psychiatry. 1993 Nov; 163: 684-6

ISSN: 0007-1250

PY: 1993

LA: ENGLISH

CP: ENGLAND

AB: A 45-year-old man was admitted with a hair growth delusion and depressive symptoms. The delusion persisted for three years and disappeared after a manic episode. This odd delusion has some similarities with lycanthropy.

MESH: Antipsychotic-Agents,-Phenothiazine-administration-and-dosage; Antipsychotic-Agents,-Phenothiazine-therapeutic-use; Delusions-drugtherapy; Depressive-Disorder-drug-therapy; Hypochondriasis-drugtherapy; Lithium- Carbonateadministration-and-dosage; LithiumCarbonate-therapeutic-use; Manic-Disorder-drugtherapy; Middle-Age; Phenothiazines-administration-and-dosage; Phenothiazinestherapeuticuse; Psychiatric-Status-Rating-Scales

MESH: *Delusions-complications; *Depressive-Disorder-complications; *Hypochondriasis-complications; *Hypochondriasis-diagnosis; *ManicDisorder complications

TG: Case-Report; Human; Male

PT: JOURNAL-ARTICLE

RN: 0; 0; 3546-03-0; 554-13-2

NM: Antipsychotic-Agents,-Phenothiazine; Phenothiazines; cyamemazine; Lithium Carbonate

AN: 94129957

UD: 9405

TI: [Anorexia and lycanthropy ++: grandiosity and fall]

TO: Anorexie et lycanthropie: grandeur et decadence. AU: Vedie-C; Poinso-F; Hemmi-F; Katz-G

AD: Hopital La Colombiere, Montpellier.

SO: Ann-Med-Psychol-Paris. 1993 Mar; 151(3): 285-9

ISSN: 0003-4487

PY: 1993

LA: FRENCH; NON-ENGLISH

CP: FRANCE

MESH: Anorexia-classification; Anorexia-diagnosis; History-ofMedicine,-19th Cent.; History-of-Medicine,-20th-Cent.; Mythology-; Psychiatry-history; Psychotherapy-

MESH: *Anorexia-history; *Delusions-history

TG: Female; Human; Male

PT: HISTORICAL-ARTICLE; JOURNAL-ARTICLE

AN: 94079209

UD: 9403

TI: Psychopharmacology of lycanthropy.

AU: Davis-WM; Wellwuff-HG; Garew-L; Kydd-OU

AD: Orphan Drug Research Institute, Jefferson, Miss.

SO: Can-Med-Assoc-J. 1992 Apr 1; 146(7): 1191-7

ISSN: 0008-4409

PY: 1992

LA: ENGLISH

CP: CANADA

AB: OBJECTIVE: To develop pharmacotherapies for the orphan disease lycanthropy through the pursuit of the etiologic hypothesis of a genetically determined hypersecretion of endogenous lycanthropogens. DESIGN: Quadruple- blind, Rubik's Cube matrix analysis. SETTING: Community practice and malpractice. PARTICIPANTS: Subjects selected from inbred Ruficolla populations in Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina and Minnesota. All who entered the study finished it. INTERVENTIONS: Chemical screening of blood samples over a hypothesized secretory cycle of lycanthropogen peaking on the day of maximum lunar illumination. Administration of synthetic lycanthropogens for behavioural testing. Experimental lycosomatization through the illumination method of Kirschbaum. OUTCOME MEASURES: None were post hoc, but some are still in hock. MAIN RESULTS: Two putative lycanthropogens were isolated from the blood samples. Structural elucidation and synthesis permitted animal and clinical trials; in each of these, behavioural dysfunction was observed. Antilycanthropogen strategies included application of the principle of caged compounds and generation of a therapeutic immunoglobulin. The effects of a newly developed antihirsutic agent seemed promising. An interaction of the lycanthropogen- secretion system and ethanol was noted, which may explain behavioural aspects of alcoholism. CONCLUSIONS: The incidence of lycomania in North America is underestimated. Soon-to-be-available pharmacotherapies should promote its early detection and treatment. Full control may depend upon advances in gene therapy.

MESH: *Delusions-; *Wit-and-Humor

TG: Human

PT: JOURNAL-ARTICLE

AN: 92208802

UD: 9207

SB: AIM

TI: [The delusion of lycanthropic transformation] TO: El delirio de transformacion licantropico.

AU: Rojo-Moreno-J; Rojo-Moreno-M; Valdemoro-Garcia-C; Rojo-Sierra-M

AD: Facultad de Medicina, Valencia.

SO: Actas-Luso-Esp-Neurol-Psiquiatr-Cienc-Afines. 1990 Sep-Oct; 18(5): 327-31

ISSN: 0300-5062

PY: 1990

LA: SPANISH; NON-ENGLISH

CP: SPAIN

AB: The authors describe one case of Lycanthropy and revise the literature about this theme. They observe that Lycanthropy has received scant attention in the modern literature, but appears to have survived into modern times. In some cases the patient (as a Delusion) has the belief that he has been transformed into an animal. In other cases there appears only what seems to be behaviour of an animal. About the first group, the authors make a phenomenological analysis and present a clinical case of Lycanthropic delusion.

MESH: Adult-; AntidepressiveAgents-therapeutic-use; AntipsychoticAgents-therapeutic-use; Delusions-drugtherapy; Delusions-psychology; Depression-etiology; English- Abstract; Hirsutismpsychology; SelfConcept; Social-Isolation

MESH: *Delusions-

TG: Case-Report; Human; Male

PT: JOURNAL-ARTICLE; REVIEW; REVIEW-OF-REPORTED-CASES

RN: 0; 0

NM: Antidepressive-Agents; Antipsychotic-Agents

AN: 91150521

UD: 9106

TI: Lycanthropy and demonomania: some psychopathological issues.

AU: Koehler-K; Ebel-H; Vartzopoulos-D

AD: University Psychiatric Clinic, Bonn, West Germany.

SO: Psychol-Med. 1990 Aug; 20(3): 629-33

ISSN: 0033-2917

PY: 1990

LA: ENGLISH

CP: ENGLAND

AB: Modern reports on lycanthropy mainly concentrate on the content of patients' beliefs in being transformed into an animal. By contrast, an interest in the form of the symptomatology is usually minimal. This paper draws on Karl Jaspers' phenomenological views and focuses on some important albeit neglected psychopathological issues related to form which are relevant to any comprehensive consideration of lycanthropic phenomena.

MESH: Awareness-; Reality-Testing; Self-Concept

MESH: *Delusions-psychology; *Depersonalization-Disorder-psychology; *Magic-; *Manic-Disorder-psychology

TG: Human

PT: JOURNAL-ARTICLE; REVIEW; REVIEW,-TUTORIAL

AN: 91046496

UD: 9102

TI: Lycanthropy and self-identification.

AU: Kulick-AR; Pope-HG Jr; Keck-PE Jr

AD: Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts 02178.

SO: J-Nerv-Ment-Dis. 1990 Feb; 178(2): 134-7

ISSN: 0022-3018

PY: 1990

LA: ENGLISH

CP: UNITED-STATES

AB: Lycanthropy, an unusual psychiatric syndrome involving the delusion of being an animal, usually occurs as a transient symptom of severe psychosis. A review of the historical and modern medical literature, as well as of contemporary anthropological reports, suggests multiple etiologies for lycanthropy, including seizure disorders and use of psychotomimetic drugs. A clinical illustration is presented in which the delusion of being an animal in human form has persisted for over 15 years and has been refractory to treatment. The authors speculate that disturbances of self-identity may combine with neurological abnormalities to produce some cases of this syndrome.

MESH: Adult-; Delusions-drug-therapy; Delusions-etiology; Delusionstherapy; Psychotherapy-; Psychotic-Disorders-complications; Psychotropic-Drugs therapeutic-use

MESH: *Cats-; *Delusions-; *Ego-

TG: Animal; Case-Report; Human; Male

PT: JOURNAL-ARTICLE; REVIEW; REVIEW-OF-REPORTED-CASES

AN: 90132623

UD: 9005

SB: AIM

The Beast Within - Animals in the middle ages . Joyce E. Salisbury. Routledge, 1994 ISBN:0-415-90769-1 Cost me about 12 pounds sterling [make that $20]. It's basically an analysis of the human perception of animal forms since about the 10th century, from religious, sexual, social and economic standpoints. The bit at the end 'humans as animals' and "what is a human", are IMHO really rather good; certainly changed *my* way of looking at myself in the traditional sense as a human, to the way I feel now, which is much more animal-centered.

Werewolf: a true story of demonic possession. Ed Warren. Apparently about a man who was "possessed" by a wolf spirit, which is exorcised by a Catholic priest. On the back cover, they describe seeing him change, yet with the included photos, there is not one picture of said change. Methinks they were just trying to sell books with a little hype. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992

Curse of the Werewolf. Tim Kelly. Dramatic Pub. Co., 1990

The werewolf miracles. Oberon Press, 1976

Animal Spirits. Nicholas J. Saunders. Macmillan/Duncan Baird Publishers, 1995

ISBN: 0-333-63846-8

Price: 9.95 pounds sterling.

A strange book; at first it starts with a discussion of "the shared world" the way animals have been perceived by humans, discusses soulflight, animals in heraldry, hunter and hunted, food, animal-related beliefs, shamanism etc. Then the second part has specific sections on animals [bat, jaguar, wolf, dog, shark, fish, bear etc]. The third part is a gazetteer of animal beliefs from around the world.

But this book's 2-page definition of Werewolves is in the section "Imaginary Beasts". Huh! So *I* am a figment of somebody's imagination, am i?? Anyway, the picture to go with the Werewolf ('Cannibal, or Werewolf' by Cranach the Elder) is worth it, just for all those severed limbs, heads etc! A useful introduction.... and a good list of references at the back too!

Of Wolf and Man. Barry Lopez .

It is technically only about how people think of wolves and have reacted to wolves throughout history, with only a few chapters on werewolves(which are fairly dry repititions of legends from the dark ages) but the multi-faceted, mysterious view of the wolf it gives is FANTASTIC, especially the stuff about how native americans see the wolf, and the way the wolf is presented as an intelligent being that we can never really classify or understand, but that evokes deep feelings in the human soul.

Dance of the Dolphin. Candace Slater.

This book is a collection of recently-gathered and supposedly recently happening stories of weredolphins along the amazon river. Apparently some people there still believe that they have witnessed weredolphin transformations, recently, not in the 17th century or anything, and a lot of them. Unfortunately the author goes deep into psychology trying to explain why so many people have these delusions, and treats the subject as if all these were delusions. It is the only book I know of that has this many supposedly-true recent were stories.

The White Goddess . Robert Graves. (Faber & Faber)

Subtitled A historical grammar of poetic myth. This is one of my favourite books. It's more a research into pre-Christian religion than anything else. But a riveting read.

The Golden Bough. Sir James Frazer. (Wordsworth Reference) and MacMillan & Co.) This book was published first in 1890. A lot of Robert Graves' source material comes from this book.

The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myth and Secrets. Barbara Walker ( Harper & Row)

This is a feminist approach of most myths legends, saints and sinners. There is an interesting couple of pages under the heading Werewolves.

I found an interesting collection of folk tales in the Children Section of my local library. Published by the Oxford University Press and retold by different authors, the come under the general heading of Myths and Legends in Paperback. About sixteen titles. Myths and legends from Africa, Amenia. China. England, France. Gemany, Hungary, India, Japan, Persia, Russia, Scandinavia, Scotland, Turkey, West-India etc. Another Oxford Paperback, "The Tain" translated by Thomas Kinsella treats the story of Cuchulain, the Ulster Hero. (For the American among you. Ulster is Northern Ireland) Cuchulain means the Hound of Culain. Culain was a smith who had a dangerous dog which had to be kept down with three iron chains held by three strong men each. The boy Setanta killed the dog in a fight. The smith was heart broken and Setanta made up by becoming a watch dog until the next bag of pups was raised. That's how he got his name Cuchulain. The story is pre-Christian and more for adults than for children.

The Mabinogian, translated by Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones. (Everyman's Library) Those are very old stories and legends from Wales. A whole population is transformed into mice. It's a classic.

There are many Irish Fairy tales on the market. I haven't found werewolves in them but men and woman who are animals by night and people by day or vise versa. Seals, dogs, cats etc. For some it was because of a curse, some because they have special powers and the rest just as a matter of fact without any explanation.

The Wolf-man and Sigmund Freud [#88 in the series "The International Psychoanalytical Library"] Author: Muriel Gardiner (ed.) Pub: The Hogarth press and the Institute of Psychoanalysis, 1972 ISBN: 0-7012-0355-2

Silverwolf writes:

I recently found, under the Wiccan section of a book store near where I live, a book set, called The Moon Box which contains Were chants and spells as well as other were information. I dont know that these work, but I'm very happy with my choice to buy the set in any case. It's $29.95 for 4 hard cover books and a box for them. The address of the company is:

Chronicle Books

275 Fifth Street

San Francisco, CA 94103

Deerdancer, The Shape Shifter Archetype in Story and in Trance. Michele Jamal. She apparently has a book called Shape Shifters, too. This one goes into depth in many archetypes -- bear shifters, wolf shifters, buffalo, seal, deer, and even tree and deity shifters.

Shadowfox offers this list of kitsune related books:

Kiyoshi Nozaki - Kitsune: Japan's Fox of Mystery, Romance and Humor

(This book is an *EXCELLENT* source for Kitsune information.)

Yei Theodora Ozaki - The Japanese Fairy Book - ISBN# 0804808856 - 1970 (Houghton Mifflin?)

Hadland Davis - Myths & Legends of Japan - ISBN# 0486270459 - Dover, 1992

Grace James - Green Willow & Other Japanese Fairy Tales - ISBN# 0517632101 - Crown Pub/Avene Books, 1987

W. Aston - Nihongi - ISBN# 0804809844 - Tuttle Co., 1972 (Japanese history & myth)

? Philippi - Kojiki - Princeton Univ. Press, 1969 - Dewey# 915.2 (Japanese history & myth)

Carmen Blacker - The Catalpa Bow - ISBN# 0043980082 - Boston, Allen & Unwin, 1986 (Japanese Shamanism & animals)

Andrew Lang - The Violet Fairy - Dewey# 398.21 - McGraw-Hill, 1967 (Various tales including Japanese - not sure if fox related)

John Ferguson - Japanese Mythology - Dewey# 299.51 - pub by Marshall Jones Co., 1928 and by Cooper Square Publishers (could also be under author Masaharu Anseki)

Juliet Piggott - Japanese Mythology - ISBN# 0911745092 (pbk)and 0600021130 - Harper & Row, 1969 - Dewey# 299

Kunio Yanagita (or Fanny Mayer) - Japanese Folk Tales - Dewey# 398.21 - Tokyo, 1954

Kengi Hamada (or A. Ueda) - Tales of Moonlight and Rain - ISBN# 0048231169 - Tokyo, 1971 - Dewey# 895.6 - Japanese Fairy Tales - Hillside Press, 1962

Lafcadio Hearn - Japanese Fairy Tales - ISBN# 0848602188 - Dewey# 398.2 - Core Collection Books, 1979

Hayao Kawai - The Japanese Psyche - ISBN# 0882143360 - Dewey# 298.2 - Spring Publications, 1988 (Japanese views on its culture and folklore-fox related?)

Stephen Addiss - Japanese Ghosts & Demons - ISBN# 0807611263 and 0807611255- University of Kansas, 1985 - Dewey# 704.9 (artwork)

Reiko Chiba - The Seven Lucky Gods of Japan - Tuttle Co., 1966 (assuming the tie between white foxes as the messangers of the Rice god Inari

Richard G Smith - Ancient Tales & Folklore of Japan - ISBN# 1859580793 - Senate, 1995

Teresa Williston - Japanese Fairy Tales - Rand McNally, 1911

Whither Werewolf? by Lilith Silverhair (Llewellyn's Magical Almanac, 1997)

Fiction

Naked came the Sasquatch. John Boston. Published by TSR but amazingly good for a first novel. VERY humorous, although alas Mr Boston sometimes repeats characterization to the word, and there is a gap in the storyline. Still worth the reading. And yes, despite the title, there are werewolves in it.

Steppenwolf. Herman Hesse. It's fiction, but man does he have the anguish of a dual soul thing down. Vlad seconds this motion too...actually I mentioned the book to her, and then she asked me if it was in the FAQ, and we agreed that if it wasn't, it oughta be.

Moon of Three Rings

Year of the Unicorn

The Jargoon Pard

-all by Andre Norton

In the first, a space trader gets transformed into the body of a wolflike creature called a barsk at the hands of a woman of a Gypsylike people. The second features a were-snow leopard, a half-breed of a shape- shifting people who falls in love with a witch, and the third is about a were-leopard who turns out to be the witch's and snow leopard's son. Everything works out in the end -- Andre Norton is addicted to happy endings.

Darker Than You Think. Jack Williamson. An old but classic science-fiction novel in which shapeshifters are the last remnants of an ancient race that once ruled humans.

Chronicles of the Cheysuli. Jennifer Roberson. A series about a people who are bound to one animal, or more, into which they can transform, and with they are in close psychic contact. The first was Shapechangers, and I think there were a total of 8.

Wheel of Time Series. Robert Jordan. I think he's up to 4 or 5 books in the series now. One of the main characters, Perrin, is a lycanthrope of some sort. He can communicate with wolves, sees through their eyes, and is in constant danger of turning into one permanently...

Silver Bullet. Stephen King.

Lord of the Ring series. J.R.R. Tolkien. (Beornings are werebears)

Wolf Moon. Charles de Lint, published by Signet in 1988, ISBN 0-4515487-8

Good story about a werewolf who is being hunted by an evil harper (yup, the were is the good guy :>), and by sheer luck escapes him. He ends up in a place he may be able to find some happiness if he keeps his were nature a secret. He's already had some BAD experiences with what happened when non-weres found out what he is. Then the bad guy shows up and things go to hell in a handcart for a while. It ends up okay in the end, but there are some interesting insights into the psychology of being a were and letting others know it. Harder than the hobbs of hell to find now though, but worth the search I think.

Larry Niven has written a series of short stories oriented more towards fantasy with lycanthropes of the 'heroic' or 'mind of a beast' mindset. One of these is "The Lion In His Attic" which concerns a were-sealion and can be found in the compilation Limits (ISBN 0-345-32142-1).

Michael Moorcock's Elric book Revenge of the Rose has as the second story Esbern Snare, Tale of the Northern Werewolf. While it's portrayal of lycanthropy is still curse-oriented, still a good read.

Blood Trail. Tanya Huff. Second in a series of fantasy/murder mysteries, this one involves something that's been killing all of Canada's werewolves...

The Ultimate Werewolf. I think Dell published this excellent collection of modern short fiction about werewolves.

Wolfen. Whitley Streiber. They made a movie out of this too. The main creatures aren't quite were, but they're not quite wolves, either, and there's some cool stuff about Native Americans performing shapechanging rituals.

Elsewhere. Will Shetterly. Part of the Borderlands shared world series, in a place where Faery and the modern world meet. This one's about a boy who ends up getting cursed into becoming a Weredog.

Drums Around the Fire. From White Wolf; a book of legends & tales told to the Garou of the Werewolf game around the sacred fire by a number of authors

BTW, Nancy A. Collins' Wild Blood does have several hot scenes, and some sexual stuff also appears in S.P.Somtov's Moondance.

Striper Assassin. Nyx Smith. One of the main characters, Striper, is a weretiger, and a hired assassin for a Mage named Adama. Point of interest: at one time, she goes to a club run by Werewolves. To prove she's Were, she cuts herself, then heals it with her saliva. Very good portrayal of Weres, IMO. Esp. the Wolves :), even if they are only featured once.

The werewolf of Fever Swamp. R.L. Stine. (adolescent)

The St. Andrews werewolf: a Liz Austen mystery. Eric Wilson. (adolescent)

Werewolf: horror stories of the man-beast. Peter Haining. (a collection)

The werewolf trace. John Gardner.

Werewolf! edited by Bill Pronzini

Ladies of horror; two centuries of supernatural stories by the gentle sex. Seon Manley. (adolescent)

The compleat werewolf, and other stories of fantasy and sf. Anthony Boucher

The werewolf principle. Clifford Simak. (adult/adolescent)

The Wild. Whitley Strieber. The Wild is essentially about a man whose desire to escape the Kafkaesque nature of his life is the catalyst for his transformation into a sentient wolf. Also, one of the best endings of a werewolf novel I've read.

Saint Peter's Wolf. Michael Cadnum. A psychiatrist whose life is falling apart discovers hope in the form a mysterious new lover and a strange pair of silver fangs. Extremely good book that questions every assumption people have about lycanthropy.

Wilderness. Dennis Danvers. The story centers around a young woman learning to control her life and her lycanthropy for the first time when she falls in love with her new neighbor. This book is actually more of a love story than a horror novel.

Animals. John Skipp and Craig Spector. The crown princes of splatterpunk pull out all the stops in this surprisingly good novel with one overriding theme: "Lycanthropy is no excuse for being an asshole." The story and the characters have a refreshingly bluesy feel to them, aided and abetted by the Pennsylvania rust-belt setting and the blues music that permeates everything.

Lycanthia. Tanith Lee. Very very hard to find but an excellent book. A young lord returns to his family estate and discovers that the "horrible monsters" living in his woods are neither, but graceful and very sensual werewolves. Quietly erotic book with a sad ending.

Heart Beast. Tanith Lee. Her "raving beast" book, here a young man is cursed to become a werewolf after gaining possession of a diamond with a flaw shaped like a running wolf. The werewolf here acts as a symbol of male sexuality, which simultaneously awakens and oppresses the main female character’s own sexual nature until it's destruction.

The Wilding. Melanie Tem. (1992; ISBN 0-440-21285-5; Abyss line of Dell Publishing). Follows a family of matrilineal werewolves outside Denver.Focus is on coming-of-age ritual where youngest member learns what she is and what it means. Really cool!

Howling Mad. Peter David. ISBN 0-441-34663-4. This book has a thoroughly marvelous premise: a wolf gets bit by a werewolf and turns into a man at every full moon and is completely pissed off about it! It's a *lot* of fun to read.

The Nightwalker. Thomas Tessier. ISBN 0-330-26225-4. This is one of my favourite novels about a very sympathetic character who happens to be a werewolf. Highly recommended.

The Bloody Chamber. Angela Carter. ISBN 0-14-012837-9. This collection of short stories is notable for including the very Jungian tale, "The Company of Wolves", which the movie of the same name was based on, as well as another short story, The Werewolf.

Moon of the Wolf. Leslie Whitten. ISBN 0-380-00285-X. Whitten wrote good old fashioned, straight-ahead horror stuff. This is a fairly classic and somewhat predictable Hollywood-style werewolf tale, but it's entertaining.

Snow White, Blood Red. Eileen Datlow & Terri Windlin. (eds.)

ISBN 0-380-71875-8.

This is one of those books that's becoming popular nowadays where a bunch of writers get together and do up modernized, adult versions of classic fairytales. This volume includes a pretty good story by Wendy Wheeler called "Little Red".

The Lays of Marie de France. Penguin Classics edition. ISBN 0-14-44476-9. This is a collection of late 12th century French poetry which includes the classic tale of lycanthropy, Bisclavret.

Rod Serling's Triple W: Witches, Warlocks, and Werewolves. Serling, Rod, ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1963.

Prince of Wolves. Susan Krinard. Prince of Wolves is a standard "Romance" novel. If you aren't in to the feisty heroine, broody hero, "heat of their passion was like a thousand suns burning" sorta soft-porn prose then stay clear. On the other paw, it's a well written example of the genre and the brooding hero is quite a fine example of a "good" werewolf. I recommend the book but good luck finding it... romance novels have a short shelf life. (Her second book is also a romance, this one with some untraditional vampires. Prince of Dreams. Not as good and void of weres but okay for a romance...)

The Beast Within - Erotic Tales of Werewolves.

The Wild One. Marion Zimmer Bradley. In a collection of short stories called The best of Marion Zimmer Bradley, edited by Martin Greenberg...pub. 1985.

The Orphan. Robert Stallman. New York, Pocket Books, 1980

The Captive. by Robert Stallman (surprise!), 1981

The Offspring

The_Jaguar_Princess Claire Bell. It's "a Tor.Book/published by Tom Doherty Associates, Inc." and was copywrighted 1993. The.ISBN number is 0-812-51516-1. The Library of Congress Card Catalogue number is 93-25920.

Thor. Wayne Smith. (Ballentine Books, 1992) Primarily aimed at mass adolescent market, but still interesting to older folk. Werewolf character is, alas, straight out of ravening Lon Chaneyesque I-just-can't-help-myself-gotta rend serial killer mold, but what makes book interesting is that it's told from perspective of family dog. Nice stab at canine psychologizing, dog/human/were interaction. Definitely worth a read, if only for the immortal line, 'I'm the moon's indentured servant'. Nice, eh?

I believe there's a Tanith Lee werewolf story (can't remember title off-hand, alas) in Don't Bet on the Prince, edited by Jack Zipes. Feminist Fairy Tales. The story might be reprinted elsewhere, perhaps in another were-story anthology. Nice little twist (with the accent on the 'twist') to Red Riding Hood. And of course, being Tanith Lee, gorgeously tactile writing.

Werewolf of Paris. Guy Endore. Very well-written, tho again the unfortunate were in question is of the reluctant Jack-the-Ripper type. Lots and lots of werewolf lore distributed in rather scattershot fashion throughout--alomst as tho the guy (Guy) is telling us, 'look, I did my homework!' Still, a fab read for the gothic fan particularly. Kind of the 'Dracula' of werewolf novels.

The Crossing. Cormac McCarthy (Vintage, 1994). Not technically a werewolf story, but might be interesting to weres. First part of the book (set in New Mexico in the 1930's) deals with a boy who is responsible for trapping wolf that is killing cattle on family ranch. He ends up trying to return her to her original range in Mexico. Along the way he bonds with her in a very visceral fashion. Funny, heartbreaking, ravishingly lush prose/poetry a la Faulkner-almost *too* much sometimes, but who doesn't like to get a bit intoxicated on words? I know I do ('so much so, that truth to tell, I'm rarely sober'--thank you, Lord Peter Wimsey). IMHO, McCarthy should have ended the book after the first part with the wolf, but the rest of it makes for interesting reading as well.

Favorite Folk Tales from Around the World. Edited by Jane Yolen. (Pantheon, 1986) Has an entire section on Shapeshifter stories. *Wonderful* for telling, which is a special passion of mine.

My truly awesome best friend Joy gave me a book for Christmas and I thought I'd share it with you all. It's called Women Who Run With the Werewolves; Tales of Blood, Lust and Metamorphosis and is edited by Pam Keesey. It's put out by Cleis Press Inc., PO Box 8933, Pittsburgh, PA 15221 with a copyright date of 1996. ISBN is 1-57344-057-4 (paper). It's a book of short stories about female werewolves.

Predators, Eric Sauter. (C) by Black Wolf Inc. Publ: US: Pocket Books 1987 UK: Sphere Books Ltd. 1988 ISBN 0-7474-0007-5

Wolfcurse, Guy N. Smith. C) 1981 by Guy N. Smith Publ: NEL (New English Library) 1981 ISBN 0-450-05158-7

The Howling, Gary Brandner. (C) 1977 by Gary Brandner Publ: Hamlyn Paperbacks (UK) 1978,78,79,80 (yes, twice printed in the first year) ISBN 0-600-34564-5

ShadowFox offers:

Anyway I've got a few new things for those who like to read. Firstly in the current (December 96) Realms of Fantasy their Folkroots section is on nothing but shifters and weretype critters. They touch on a huge variety of different shifter legends from all over the world. Whats better is they also list good reference books for some/most of their info... If any one is interested I can either post or email the various list of books to ya.

Shadow of the Fox by Ellen Steiber. ISBN 0-679-86667-1 A Bullseye Chiller from Random House, pub 1994

And who could forget the Wolfriders in Elfquest? (WARP Graphics)

When Fox is a Thousand by Larissa Lai, Press Gang Publishers, Canada.

And, of course, Cheri Scotch's werewolf trilogy...

 "...my all time favorite and a must read for any werewolf nut is The Hyde Effect, by Steve Vance..."

The Werewolf and the Vampire, Monster Club by Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes. This story (about a werewolf and a vampire who marry) was reprinted in The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories. I've been trying to locate both the original book and the movie based on it (with Vincent Price).

Fire Rose by Mercedes Lackey. Turn-of-century magician botches spell to turn into wolf. Lackey's attention to historical and magical detail make this much better than her "fluff" paperbacks.

The Mammoth Book of Werewolves edited by Stephen Jones. Reprints of older stories. Pretty good.

Wolf's Hour by Robert R. McCammon. Switches between werewolf as child in Russia and adult fighting Nazis. Awesome book. A must have.

Shapes by Stephen Vance. An interesting book where the shapeshifters have evolved their ability to become omnimorphs, like Odo on Deep Space 9.

Werewolves edited by Martin H. Greenberg. Original stories. Not bad.

Mother Was a Lovely Beast edited by Philip Jose Farmer. Collection of fiction and fact about feral children. Funny one about boy raised by condors. Has a story about the *real* Tarzan.

The Golden Ass by Lucius Apuleius (sp?). Robert Graves, translator. Ancient Greek story about a man trying to take shortcuts to occult knowledge (like Mickey in Fantasia). He botches a spell and gets turned into a donkey. Good story with an important lesson - shortcuts are for asses.

Illusions by Richard Bach. Not a werewolf story, but about learning to see beyond the illusions of life. If you can vaporize clouds and walk on water, how hard can shapeshifting be? Bach also wrote Jonathon Livingston Seagull, another good book about leaving behind the mundane to challenge one's limits.

Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K. Hamilton.

Guilty Pleasures, The Laughing Corpse, Circus of the Damned, Lunatic Cafe, and Bloody Bones Pretty funny series where vampires and werewolves exist and have legal status. Worth a look.

Heart of Midnight by J. Robert King. A "Ravenloft" story. So-so.

Werewolf: the Apocalypse stories:

Wyrm Wolf by Edo van Belkom

Hell-Storm by James A. Moore

Conspicuous Consumption by Stewart von Allmen

Watcher by Charles Grant

When Will You Rage edited by Stewart Wieck

Call to Battle by Doug Murray

Dark Destiny: Proprietors of Fate edited by Edward E. Kramer. WoD anthology with some were stories among the vamps and mages. Pretty good stuff.

Lycanthropic Leo. A manga series about a were-beats in Japan. Trade Paperback due out soon by Viz. Pretty damn good and much better than Marvel's Werewolf by Night.

Wolf Moon, John R. Holt Bantam, August 1997, $5.99

ISBN 0-553-29195-X

St. Claire might look like a peaceful upstate New York town, but it is the home of a powerful cult of Luciferians, who firmly believe that Satan is the one true God. While Duffy Johnson and Nicole St. Claire might not be fully aware of the true evil that surrounded them, both sensed its aura and escaped to New York City. They have different reasons for having fled the town, but both have successfully made new lives for themselves as a couple living together. However, the leader of the local coven, Timothy Balthazar is in danger of losing his daughter to the grim reaper unless he can somehow lure the duo back to his own turf. Seven years ago, Duffy and six other people, joined a coven and now Lucifer wants them to return for a reckoning. Timothy is to have any hope of bringing his daughter back from the dead, he must kill the seven errant members. He must also stop Nicole, the last member of a family trapped by a lycanthropic curse, who have always denied him and his family the ultimate power they desire.

The heroine is pure and good, regardless of the fact that she suffers from lycanthropy, a genetic disease which seems to have physical manifestations. As the supernatural elements in Wolf Moon become more blatant and out into the open, the atmosphere turns more foreboding with the darkness of night symbolizing the coming of evil. The mass murder that is being planned, a la Charles Manson, is horrific in nature, but adds to the growing suspense. This turns the tale into a classic battle between the forces of good versus the minions of evil. To prevail in the battle, Nicole must discover who and what she is and embrace her true nature.

The romance between Duffy and Nicole is also a vital plot device that holds the story line together while providing necessary respites from the growing tension. Their love makes each other stronger as the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. The summons to return to St. Claire would not have worked if they were not one heart beating between them.

There are some graphic acts that might disturb some readers, including eating live mice and killing house cats, etc. These gross acts symbolize the torture and duality of the heroine's nature before she finally accepts her true essence. Readers of gothic romance, supernatural romance, and romantic suspense will want to read John R. Holt's epic that spans three generations of two powerful families.

-Harriet Klausner

ROOM 13, Henry Garfield St. Martin's, Jul 1997, $22.95, 320 pp.

ISBN: 0-312-15203-5

High School English teacher, Marilou McCormick, needs a change of scenery after her boy friend was killed by a werewolf. She accepts a job in a quiet small California town. However, she is assigned ROOM 13, a classroom haunted by a deceased English teacher, Scott Lurvey. Teachers assigned to this particular room do not seem to last very long. It is hard to teach when portraits refuse to be removed from the wall, the heater has a dangerous mind of its own, and the students seem possessed by characters out of literature. However, Scott has never contended with someone as intrepid as Marilou. Instead of running into the night, Marilou enlists the aid of bus driver, Cyrus "Moondog" Nygerski, a werewolf. They are determined to rid Marilou's classroom of the teacher who over-stayed his welcome. As the human and the werewolf work closely together, an attraction between them develops.

Henry Garfield's second MOONDOG novel is an interesting ghost tale that will be enjoyed by both fans of the supernatural and the supernatural romance genres. The ghost and his haunt are intriguing, but it is Moondog, that wacky, wonderful werewolf, who turns this work into a lycanthropic feast. Readers should peruse the first novel (MOONDOG) that introduced the werewolf because, like this tale, both are appealing.

-Harriet Klausner

Night of the Werepoodle by Constance Hiser. 4/94 - ISBN: 0823411168 subj: Dogs - Fiction. Yikes!

Either / neither / unknown

The Book Of Werewolves. Sabine Baring-Gould. 266 pages, paperback, published by Senate Books, Princess House, 50 Eastcastle Street, London, England ISBN 185958-072-6

Prince of Darkness. Gerald Verner. Rider and Co., 1946

Werewolves. Elliot O'Donnell. Methuen, 1912

I did not notice, though might have missed, a listing of the Satyricon by Petronius (d.AD 65) which has a great Werewolf story.

Shows and Movies about shapeshifters

"Werewolves on the Silver Screen"

compiled by Wolfshadow (aka Dave Aftandilian)

MAIN SOURCES (first two provided most of the info):

_The Scream Factory_ #15 (Autumn 1994) -- werewolves in film review article by Lawrence McCallum [top-notch stuff!!]

Donald Willis -- _Horror and Science Fiction Films: A Checklist_ (Scarecrow Press, 1972)[thorough, if opinionated, film notes]

_Fangoria_ #s 129 & 134 (July 1994)

Pierre Benichou -- _Horror et Epouvante dans la Cinema Fantastique_ (Collections Tetes d'Affiche PAL, 1977)

Adam Douglas -- _The Beast Within_ (Chapmans, 1992)

Stephen Jones (ed) -- _The Mammoth Book of Werewolves_ (Carroll & Graf, 1994) (introduction only)

_Imagi-Movies_ Vol. 1, #4, Summer 1994

ANNOTATED LIST OF FILMS:

The Werewolf (Canadian; 1913, Bison)

DIRECTOR: Henry McRae

NOTES: loosely based on Henry Beaugrand's story "The Werewolves". Short in which a Navajo witch-woman transforms her daughter into a werewolf to seek revenge against invading whites. Real wolf used in transformation scene.

The Wolfman (1915, Reliance-Mutual)

NOTES: lost film

Le Loup Garou = The Werewolf (French; 1923)

STARS: Jean Marau, Madeleine Guitty

NOTES: a priest curses a murderer, who becomes a werewolf

The Wolfman (1924, Fox)

STARS: John Gilbert, Norma Shearer, Eugene Pallette, etc.

DIRECTOR: Edmund Mortimer

NOTES: non-supernatural dual-personality melodrama

Wolf Blood (1925, Lee-Bradford)

STARS: George Chesebro, Marguerite Clayton, Ray Hanford, etc. DIRECTOR:

George Chesebro, George Mitchell

NOTES: man turns "half-beast" after transfusion of wolf blood

The Werewolf (German; 1932)

STARS: Magda Sonja, Vladimir Sokolov

DIRECTOR: Friedrich Feher

NOTES: first talkie to feature a werewolf. From the novel _Der Schwarze Mann_ by Alfred Machard.

The Werewolf of London (1935, Universal)

STARS: Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Valerie Hobson, Lester Matthews, Spring Byington, etc.

DIRECTOR: Stuart Walker

MAKE-UP: Jack Pierce

SPECIAL FX: John Fulton

NOTES: based on Oliver Onion's 1929 story "The Master of the House". First mention of "moon-flower" (Mariphasa) in film (?); but here it is the only antidote for lycanthropy, not its cause

The Wolfman (1941, Universal)

STARS: Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains, Evelyn Ankers, Bela Lugosi, Maria Ouspenskaya, etc.

DIRECTOR: George Waggner

MAKE-UP: Jack Pierce

NOTES: the biggie. Gotta love those crazy gypsies. "Even a man whos is pure in heart..."

The Undying Monster (1942, Fox)

STARS: James Ellison, Heather Angel, John Howard, etc.

DIRECTOR: John Brahm

NOTES: from the 1922 novel by Jessie Douglas Kerruish

Terror House (UK; 1942, PRC/Pathe Pictures)

STARS: James Mason, Wilfrid Sutherland, Mary Clare, etc.

DIRECTOR: Leslie Arliss

NOTES: from a novel by Alan Kennington

The Mad Monster (1942, PRC)

STARS: George Zucco, Anna Nagel, Johnny Downs, etc.

DIRECTOR: Sam Newfield

NOTES: man turned to werewolf by transfusion of wolf blood

Le Loup des Malveneur = The Wolf of the Malveneurs (French; 1943)

STARS: Madeleine Sologne, Pierre Renoir, Gabrielle Dorziat

DIRECTOR: Guillaume Radot

Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman (1943, Universal)

STARS: Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Patric Knowles, etc.

MAKE-UP: Jack Pierce

DIRECTOR: Roy William Neill

Return of the Vampire (1943/1944, Columbia)

STARS: Bela Lugosi, Matt Willis, Nina Foch, etc. DIRECTOR: Lew Landers

SPECIAL FX: Aaron Nadley

NOTES: werewolf is the hero who kills vampire

House of Frankenstein (1944, Universal)

STARS: Lon Chaney Jr., Boris Karloff, John Carradine, etc. DIRECTOR: Erle C. Kenton

SPECIAL FX: John C. Fulton

NOTES: first film use of a silver bullet to kill the werewolf

Cry of the Werewolf (1944, Columbia)

STARS: Nina Foch, Stephen Crane, Osa Massen, etc.

DIRECTOR: Henry Levin

NOTES: first female werewolf in film

House of Dracula (1945, Universal)

STARS: Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Onslow Stevens, etc.

DIRECTOR: Erle C. Kenton

SPECIAL FX: John C. Fulton

She-Wolf of London (1946, Universal;= UK The Curse of the Allenbys)

STARS: June Lockhart, Don Porter, Lloyd Corrigan, etc.

DIRECTOR: Jean Yarbrough

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948, Universal)

STARS: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi

DIRECTOR: Charles T. Barton

MAKE-UP: Bud Westmore

SPECIAL FX: David S. Horsley, Jerome H. Ash

The Werewolf (1956, Columbia/Clover)

STARS: Steven Ritch, Joyce Holden, Don Megowan, etc.

DIRECTOR: Fred F. Sears

NOTES: serum turns accident victim into a werewolf

I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1956/7, American International/Sunset)

STARS: Michael Landon, Yvonne Lime, Whit Bissell, etc.

DIRECTOR: Gene Fowler, Jr.

The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (1957, Allied Artists)

STARS: Gloria Talbot, Arthur Shields, John Agar, etc.

DIRECTOR: Edgar G. Ulmer

NOTES: vampire-like, scientifically-created werewolf

How to Make a Monster (1958, American International/Sunset)

STARS: Gary Clarke, Robert H. Harris, Paul Brinegar, etc. DIRECTOR: Herbert L. Strock

NOTES: sequel to I Was a Teenage Werewolf

The Curse of the Werewolf (UK; 1961, Hammer)

STARS: Oliver Reed, Richard Wordworth, Clifford Evans, etc.

DIRECTOR: Terence Fisher

MAKE-UP: Roy Ashton

NOTES: Hammer's only werewolf film. Based on Guy Endore's 1933 novel _The Werewolf of Paris_.

Werewolf in a Girl's Dormitory (Italian/Austrian; 1961/3, MGM/Royal; original Lycanthropus; UK I Married a Werewolf)

STARS: Barbara Lass, Carl Schell, Maurice Marsac, etc.

DIRECTOR: Paolo Hensch (aka Richard Benson)

La Loba = The She-Wolf (Mexican; 1964, Sotomayor/Azteca)

STARS: Kitty de Hoyos, Joaquin Cordero, etc.

DIRECTOR: Rafael Baledon

Face of the Screaming Werewolf (1965, ADP/Diana; merged footage from Mexican originals La Momia Azteca, 1957 and La Casa del Terror, 1959)

STARS: Lon Chaney Jr., Yolanda Varela, Yerye Beirute, etc.

DIRECTOR: Gilberto M. Solares (Jerry Warren -- US)

NOTES: first mummified werewolf in film (!)

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (UK; 1965, Paramount/Amicus)

STARS: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Roy Castle, etc.

DIRECTOR: Freddie Francis

MAKE-UP: Roy Ashton

SPECIAL FX: Ted Samuels

NOTES: multi-story format; one has werewolf

Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors (1967, American General)

STARS: Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Rochelle Hudson, etc.

DIRECTOR: David L. Hewitt

The Maltese Bippy = The Incredible Werewolf Murders (1969, MGM)

STARS: Dan Rowan & Dick Martin (Laugh-In)

DIRECTOR: Norman Panama

NOTES: minor character werewolf on motorcycle

Blood of Dracula's Castle (1969, A & E Film Corp.)

STARS: John Carradine, Paula Raymond, Alex D'Arcy, etc.

DIRECTOR: Al Adamson

The Ancines Woods OR The Wolfman of Galicia OR The Wolf's Forest = El Bosque de Ancines OR El Bosque del Lobo (Spanish; 1969, Amboto)

DIRECTOR: Pedro Olea

NOTES: from a novel by Carlos M. Barbeito. Epileptic murderer believed to be a werewolf.

Night of the Werewolf (1969)

NOTES: in Daninsky series (see next)

Frankenstein's Bloody Terror (1970; original Spanish 1967/8 La Marca del Hombre Lobo OR El Hombre Lobo cut for US release)

STARS: Paul Naschy, Manuel Manzaneque, Aurora de Alba, etc.

DIRECTOR: Enrique Eguiluz

NOTES: begins series of films involving Waldemar Daninsky, a scientist afflicted with lycanthropy

Assignment Terror (1970, American-International)

NOTES: released direct to TV. In Daninsky series.

The Werewolf's Shadow (original La Noche de Walpurgis German/Spanish; 1970, Atlas International/Plata)

STARS: Paul Naschy, Gaby Fuchs, Barbara Capell, etc.

DIRECTOR: Leon Klimovski = Leon Klimowsky

NOTES: in Daninsky series

Fury of the Wolfman (original Spanish La Furia del Hombre Lobo; 1970, Maxper)

STARS: Perla Cristal, Veronica Lujan

DIRECTOR: Jose Maria Zabalza

NOTES: in Daninsky series

Dr. Jekyll and the Wolfman (original Spanish Dr. Jekyll y el Hombre Lobo; 1971)

NOTES: in Daninsky series

Werewolves on Wheels (1971, Fanfare Films)

STARS: Stephen Oliver, Severn Darden, D.J. Anderson, etc.

DIRECTOR: Michel Levesque

NOTES: werewolf biker gang -- 'nuff said

Moon of the Wolf (1972, ABC TV)

STARS: David Janssen, Barbara Rush, Bradford Dillman

DIRECTOR: Daniel Petrie

The Vampires Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here! (UK; 1972)

Curse of the Devil (original Spanish El Retorno de Walpurgis; 1973)

STARS: Paul Naschy, Fabiola Falcon, Vidal Molina, etc.

DIRECTOR: Carlos Aured

NOTES: in Daninsky series

The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (1973, Universal)

STARS: Kerwin Mathews, Scott Sealey

DIRECTOR: Nathan Juran

The Werewolf of Washington (1973, Diplomat)

STARS: Dean Stockwell

Scream of the Wolf (1974 ABC TV)

DIRECTOR: Dan Curtis (Dark Shadows)

The Beast Must Die (1974, Cinerama)

STARS: Peter Cushing, Anton Diffring

NOTES: script based on James Blish's "There Shall Be No Darkness"; 1989 video release titled Black Werewolf

Legend of the Werewolf (UK; 1974)

STARS: Peter Cushing, Ron Moody, Roy Castle, Hugh Griffith

DIRECTOR: Fred Francis

Night of the Howling Beast (original Spanish La Maldicion de la Bestia; 1975)

STARS: Paul Naschy

DIRECTOR: Miguel Iglesias Bonns

NOTES: another in the Waldemar Daninsky series. Daninsky meets the Abominable Snowman.

The Werewolf of Woodstock (1975, ABC TV)

Daughter of a Werewolf (Italian; 1976, Dialchi)

STARS: Annik Barel, Frederick Stafford

DIRECTOR: Rino diSilvestro

Wolfman (1979, EO Prod.)

STARS: Earl Owensby

Wolfen (1980/1981)

STARS: Albert Finney, Gregory Hines

NOTES: from a book by Whitley Strieber

The Howling (1981, Avco-Embassy)

STARS: Dee Wallace, Rob Bottin, Patrick MacNee, Chris Stone, Slim Pickins, Dennis Dugan, Robert Picardo

DIRECTOR: Joe Dante

SPECIAL FX: Rob Bottin

NOTES: from novel by Gary Brander

An American Werewolf in London (1981, Universal)

STARS: David Naughton, Jenny Agutter

SPECIAL FX: Rick Baker

NOTES: first four-footed werewolf in film

The Craving (original Spanish El Retorno del Hombre Lobo; 1981)

STARS: Paul Naschy

Frankenstein Island (1983)

STARS: Robert Clarke, Katherine Vicot, John Carradine, Andrew Duggan, Cameron Mitchell

DIRECTOR: Jerry Warren

NOTES: werewolf minor appearance

The Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf (1984)

STARS: Christopher Lee, Reb Brown, Ferdy Mayne

DIRECTOR: Philippe Mora

MAKE-UP: Steve Johnson

The Company of Wolves (UK; 1984, Palace)

STARS: Sarah Patterson, Angela Lansbury, Stephen Rea

MAKE-UP & SPECIAL FX: Christopher Tucker

NOTES: really twisted version of the Red Riding-Hood tale; different video copies said to have different endings

Silver Bullet (1985, Paramount)

STARS: Gary Busey, Terry O'Quinn

MAKE-UP & SPECIAL FX: Rimbaldi (of E.T. fame)

NOTES: based on Stephen King's "Cycle of the Werewolf"

Teen Wolf (1985)

STARS: Michael J. Fox

Teen Wolf Too (1987)

STARS: Jason Bateman

The Monster Squad (1987, Tri-Star)

The Howling III (1987)

DIRECTOR: Philippe Mora

The Howling IV: The Original Nightmare (1988)

DIRECTOR: John Hough

SPECIAL FX: Steve Johnson

The Howling V: The Rebirth (1989)

My Mom's a Werewolf (1989)

The Howling VI: The Freaks (1991)

SPECIAL FX: Steve Johnson

Mad at the Moon (1992)

STARS: Mary Stuart Masterson, Fionnula Flanagan, Hart Bochner

DIRECTOR: Martin Donovan

Full Eclipse (1993, HBO)

NOTES: digitigrade werewolf (in some scenes)

Wolf (1994, Columbia)

STARS: Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Spader

DIRECTOR: Mike Nichols

MAKE-UP: Rick Baker

NOTES: the proof of the man is the soul within, not the beast without

Howling VII (1994)

DIRECTOR: Roger Nall

SPECIAL FX: Roy Knyrim and Jerry Macaluso (SOTA FX)

RELATED FILMS:

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (various versions)

The Island of Lost Souls (1932, Paramount)

STARS: Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi, Richard Arlen, etc.

DIRECTOR: Erle C. Kenton

NOTES: based on _The Island of Dr. Moreau_ by H.G. Wells. Mad scientist tries to turn animals into humans.

Cat People (1942, RKO)

STARS: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph, etc.

DIRECTOR: Jacques Tourneur

The Leopard Man (1943, RKO)

STARS: Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks, etc.

DIRECTOR: Jacques Tourneur

NOTES: from the novel _Black Alibi_ by Cornell Woolrich

The Curse of the Cat People (1944, RKO)

STARS: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph, etc. DIRECTOR:

Robert Wise, Gunther Fritsch

NOTES: sequel to Cat People

Catman of Paris (1946, Republic)

STARS: Carl Esmond, Robert Wilke, Lenore Aubert, etc.

DIRECTOR: Lesley Selander

SPECIAL FX: Howard and Theodore Lydecker

The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977, American International)

STARS: Burt Lancaster, Michael York, Nigel Davenport, etc.

DIRECTOR: Don Taylor

NOTES: remake of Island of Lost Souls

The Crow (1994, Miramax)

STARS: Brandon Lee, Ernie Hudson, Tony Todd, etc.

DIRECTOR: Alex Proyas

MAKE-UP: Lance Anderson

SPECIAL FX: Dream Quest Images

NOTES: tragic film based on James O'Barr's tragic graphic novel. A truly gothic love story.

Cat People (1982)

STARS: Nastassia Kinski, Malcolm McDowell

NOTES: remake of 1942 original

"MetalBeast" (??)

I do know that there was a British TV series featuring a University professor and an American girl (who was bitten by a werewolf). It was ok; didn't really get to watch it too much. The point was to prevent her from shifting, kinda like Nick Knight on _Forever Knight_. I believe the show was called "Werewolf in London" which is where it took place. The closest I ever saw to a shift was turning her pupils red. Big deal(sarcastically). But it was a kind of X-Files type show that dealt with the paranormal. I'll see if I can find out any more on it, and will forward anything that I discover. --Windrunner

>This is the show "She-Wolf of London," which is playing on the Sci-Fi Channel right now. It does have the occasional so-so transformation scene, just not in every episode. There's some info about it on the Web... check: http://www.nevada.edu/home/4/geno/Web/lc.html -WizardWolf

....and as a special treat, Ysengrin sends us this info on the TV show "Werewolf":

USA still runs the 2 hour pilot from time to time (last time was about four months ago), usually on Saturday afternoons. It was part of the Fox network's premiere lineup, and was apparently troubled by the censors from day one. Two episodes were delayed for almost two months due to their violent content, and thus were shown out of sequence.

WEREWOLF EPISODE LIST

The dates given are the show dates in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area.

This is the first run on the Fox network; episodes were shown in a different order on USA and were re-cut for three commercial breaks instead of two and in many case were also shortened.

Tristar (1987)

July 11 - Pilot (2 hours)

July 18 - NIGHTWATCH

July 25 - THE BOY WHO CRIED WEREWOLF

Aug 1 - THE BLACK SHIP

Aug 8 - SPECTRE OF THE WOLF

Aug 15 - THE WOLF WHO THOUGHT HE WAS A MAN

Aug 22 - the boy who cried werewolf [R]

Aug 29 - NOTHING EVIL IN THESE WOODS

Sept 5 - nightwatch [R]

Sept 12 - RUNNING WITH THE PACK

Sept 19 - pilot [R] ("WEREWOLF - THE MOVIE")

Sept 26 - FRIENDLY HAVEN

Oct 3 - LET US PREY

Oct 10 - A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE (part one) Oct 17 -

A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE (part two) Oct 25 - THE UNICORN

Oct 31 - ALL HALLOWS EVE

Nov 1 - BLOOD ON THE TRACKS

Nov 8 - NIGHTMARE AT THE BRAINE HOTEL

Nov 15 - WOLF HUNT

Nov 22 - BLOOD TIES

Nov 29 - BIG DADDY

Dec 6 - EYE OF THE STORM

Dec 13 - spectre of the wolf [R]

Dec 20 - the black ship [R]

Dec 27 - spectre of the wolf [R]

Jan 3 - the wolf who thought he was a man [R]

Jan 10 - the boy who cried werewolf [R]

Production changes from Tri-star to Columbia JAN 17 - NIGHTMARE

IN BLUE

JAN 24 - SKINWALKER

JAN 31 - running with the pack [R]

FEB 7 - KING OF THE ROAD

FEB 14 - A MATERIAL GIRL

FEB 21 - TO DREAM OF WOLVES (part one)

FEB 28 - TO DREAM OF WOLVES (part two)

MAR 7 - BLIND LUCK

MAR 14 - GREY WOLF

MAR 20 - blood on the tracks [R]

MAR 27 - let us pray [R]

APR 3 - (no episode)

APR 9 - spectre of the wolf [R]

the unicorn [R]

APR 16 - to dream of wolves parts I and II [R]

APR 23 - a world of difference parts I and II [R]

MAY 1 - (no episopde)

MAY 8 - material girl [R]

MAY 15 - big daddy [R]

MAY 22 - AMAZING GRACE

MAY 29 - wolfhunt [R]

JUN 5 - the wolf who thought he was a man [R]

28 half hour episodes (two two-part episodes), plus the two hour pilot.

The best episodes (in no particular order) were "The Boy Who Cried Werewolf," "A World of Difference," "Grey Wolf," "To Dream of Wolves," "Let Us Pray," "Nothing Evil in these Woods" and "The Unicorn."

The two worst episodes were easily "Blood on the Tracks" and "All Hallows Eve".

THE CAST

Eric Cord . . . . . . . . John J. York

"Alamo" Joe Rogan . . . . Lance LeGault Janos

Skorzeny . . . . . Chuck Connors

Nicholas Remy . . . . . . Brian Thompson

Eric/Werewolf . . . . . . Tony Snegoff

Janos/Werewolf . . . . . Alex Daniels

Producers . . . . . . . John Ashley & Frank Lupo

Created by . . . . . . . Frank Lupo

Werewolf makeup crew: (apologies to anyone I missed) Earl Ellis Larry Oden

Stuart Artingstall Camilla Henneman Linda Notaro

John Vulich

Kieth Edmier Tony Rupprecht

Mitch Devane Martha Vanek

Gino Crognale Anthony Ashly

Werewolves designed by Rick Baker (The Skorzeny werewolf was originally to have been the Eric Cord werewolf, but was decided to look too 'evil'. Baker then drew up the Eric werewolf with gentler features. For more info on this, plus some nifty stills, see Fangoria #68) (Rick Baker's sketches were included in a traveling 'makeup effects exhibit' that was making the rounds at museums in the early 90's)

Transformations & Makeup by Greg Cannom.

Skorzeny werewolf - dark brown/black fur, black skin, left side of muzzle eaten away from just under the eye to the jawline as if by acid - the eye is intact. Upper jaw about 1/2" longer than the lower; single canines. Tall - over 6'6" - in height. Skorzeny rips his skin off to effect the transformation. Skorzeny seems to be both more sensitive of when a transformation is coming and able to force a shift when needed, even to control timing of a "called" shift.

Eric werewolf - light brownish-tan fur, brownish skin. Shorter perhaps 5'4". Pockets under the eyes on either side of the muzzle. Both ears are notched about an inch from the tips. Full form has dual upper canines, although the transitional does not. Is very recognizent of the memories and desires of Eric, although Eric can remember very little of what happens when he shifts, other than the euphoria. This suit does double duty as Terry in the pilot.

Remy werewolf - darker brown fur, brownish-black skin. This suit seems to be the same one used whenever a "third" werewolf was needed - the suit is first seen in Let Us Prey, and the only time Remy shifts in To Dream Of Wolves. It is hard to tell this suit from Eric's at a glance. Remy himself seems to shift partially when angry. Remy can force other weres to shift. Shifting seems to fall into two categories - "called" in which there is much foreshadowing of the shift, including the pentagram, without any causative trauma; and, "self-induced" in which either there has been major trauma (being shot, for example) or the desire to shift - these are not always accompanied by the pentagram-blister in the palm. Terry (Eric's roomate in the pilot), Skorzeny, and Eric himself all have foreknowledge of shifting at times ("called"), while Skorzeny, Eric, Remy, Brother Mark, Michelle, Grey Wolf, Marta, and Diane all can also control their shifts ("self- induced").

The appearing werewolves, in order of "birth"

ZORA PACK

Grey Wolf (Head of Bloodline? Apparently last member, several thousand

years old if he is to be believed)

HOWARD PACK

Nicholas Remy (several centuries old)

Diane

Janos Skorzeny (300-400 years old)

Mary Peterson (around a century old)

Terry

Eric Cord

Bobby [possible?] - THE BOY WHO CRIED WEREWOLF big daddy's girl

Brother Mark

Michelle

Renfield

Hank (May have been bitten by a were other than Skorzeny) [unknown]

PACK

Marta (Head of bloodline)

Servan Dumball

the 'father' in the Braine Hotel