Beware the Full Moon! Take a hair-raising tour of werewolf legends. Meet shape-shifters, dogmen, and all variety of human and lupine mixes in this blood curling story collection from two distinguished paranormal researchers!From today's lycanthropic creatures found in pop culture such as Dracula, Twilight and An American Werewolf in London to the earliest mentions in folklore of the shape-shifting legend, Werewolf Stories: Shape-Shifters, Lycanthropes, and Man-Beasts is an eye-opening tour through the ages of all things werewolf. Along the way, readers land at the doorstep of creatures like serial killer Fritz Haarmann, tiger people and their thirst for human blood, Romulus and Remus, the legendary founders of Rome, shapeshifters of all kinds and sizes, and even a spell to repel werewolves. This fascinating tome provides 140,000 years of blood-pounding evidence of strange and obsessional behavior. It tells of stories of becoming a werewolf and the intricacies of slaying the beast. A true homage to the creature, it includes full moon of topics such as Fenrir, the wolf child of the giantess Angrboda and the god Loki, from the Old Norse myth of RagnarokNotorious serial killers, including Peter Stumpp and Michael Lupo, who thought themselves to beand modeled their crimes onwerewolvesCoyote people, tricksters, and were-animals of Navajo legendThe Basque butchers of Louisiana and the loup-garouDiana, the goddess of the wilderness and the hunt, and her pack of hunting dogs, who once ruled all the dark forests of EuropeLeopard creature-men and the deadly cult whose members expressed their were-leopard lust for human blood and flesh that has been in existence in West Africa for several hundred yearsThe werewolf of the Dordogne, Francis Leroy, and his uncontrollable bloodlust during the full moonThe secret terrorist group Organization Werewolf, established in 1923, and its possible allegiance to Adolf HitlerGhouls from Arabic folklore, the demonic Djinns that hover near burial grounds and sustain themselves on human flesh stolen from gravesTasmanias thylacine and sightings of the probably extinct creature and its remarkableand frighteningjaw capacityAlaskas Kushtaka and other stories of the Bigfoot man-beastPuerto Ricos chupacabra and its powerful goat-like legs, three-clawed feet, and penchant for sucking bloodThe Doas de Fuera of Sicily, small fairies who looked human, aside from their paw-like feet, and were cruel and dangerous when crossedEnkidu, perhaps our earliest written record of a man-beast that appears on a Babylonian fragment circa 2000 BCE and tells the story of King Gilgamesh and his werewolf-like friend in The Epic of GilgameshAnd many more stories and histories of werewolves, night-stalkers, lycanthropes, and man-beastsNoted cryptozoologists and paranormal researchers Nick Redfern and Brad Steiger share personal stories and encounters with werewolves in Werewolf Stories. They take a deep dive into the legends, the history, the pop-culture take on the man-beast. It's a wild and weird road-trip into the mystery-filled domain of the disturbingly real world of shape-shifters and werewolves!
Erscheint lt. Verlag |
12.9.2023
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Reihe/Serie |
The Real Unexplained! Collection
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The Real Unexplained! Collection
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Sprache |
englisch |
Themenwelt
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Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität |
Schlagworte |
a shade of vampire book • bigfoot books • Brad Steiger • cemetery stories • Cryptozoology • demonology encyclopedia • Dogman • Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde • Edgar Allan Poe • encyclopedia demonology • Folklore • folklore books • frankenstein book • frankenstein mary shelley • full moon lore book • Halloween • interview with the Vampire • interview with the vampire book • iterview with a vampire • Jacques Vallee • john kachuba • kith and kin • legend lore • legend werewolf • Lore • lore book • lore monsters • Lost Wolf • lucifer history • lycanthropy books • man myth and magic • mysteries in the dark • Mythology • Nick Redfern • nick redfern books • not rejected just unwanted • Occult Books • occult history • Occultism • Paranormal • paranormal true stories • real hauntings • scary folklore • scary stories • shape shift • Shapeshifter • Shifter • supernatural book • supernatural books • supernatural lore • the lycans queen • the mystery of knowledge • Tru Blood • True Blood • true facts • true ghosts • true ghost stories • True stories • true supernatural • true supernatural stories • true werewolves • Twighlight • twighlight book • twighlight book series • twighlight saga • twilight book • twilight book series • twilight book set • twilight saga books • twilight series books • vampire legends • werewolf • werewolf book • werewolf books • werewolf folklore • Werewolf History • werewolf history books • werewolf horror • werewolf lore • werewolf lore legend • werewolf mythology • werewolf stories • Werewolves • white wolf vampire |
ISBN-10 |
1-57859-830-3 / 1578598303 |
ISBN-13 |
978-1-57859-830-4 / 9781578598304 |
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