Legends and eyewitness accounts of werewolves can be found in almost every spot on the globe--and even within the records of ancient Greece and earlier. Though many Westerners tend to associate folk beliefs about lycanthropy with nations like Hungary, Romania, and Russia, belief in werewolves has also been found among the inhabitants of South America, India, Mexico, Finland, and China. The earliest recorded story of lycanthropy is about four thousand years old and is recounted as part of the Sumerian legend of Gilgamesh. As Caroline Taylor Stewart notes in The Origin of the Werewolf Superstition, "The belief that a human being is capable of assuming an animal's form, most frequently that of a wolf, is an almost worldwide superstition."
In this mammoth collection of classics, you'll find four full-length novels and an big anthology of short stories and novelettes written by many of the world's greatest writers. Each focuses on those who transform into wolves when the moon is full and bright, each is the result of careful research and brilliant imagination. Take "The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains," by Captain Frederick Marryat, a British naval officer turned writer, whose autobiographical "Mr. Midshipman Easy" remains in print to this day. His novelette "The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains" is based on legends he heard on trips to that that mountainous region. In his still-horrifying classic he brings those ancient legends into his own era and, via its presence in this anthology, into ours as well.
Included in this ebook "box set" of chilling werewolf classics you will find:
THE MAN-WOLF by Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian
WAGNER, THE WEHR-WOLF by George W. M. Reynolds
THE WOLF-LEADER by Alexandre Dumas
THE WHITE WOLF OF THE HARTZ MOUNTAINS by Frederick Marryat
THE WEREWOLF by Eugene Field
THE WEREWOLVES by Henry Beaugrand
THE MARK OF THE BEAST by Rudyard Kipling
THE WERE-WOLF by Clemence Housman
The beast, it seems, has always been with us: the werewolf seems to be perpetually lurking within us all, just needing a bite, a scratch or maybe just any thin excuse to get out and run rampant.
