Beware the night book3/14/2023 ![]() ![]() If you don’t know who Linda is, Google her. I savored every morsel of Real Wolfmen: True Encounters in Modern America by Linda Godfrey. What are dogmen? They are basically- allegedly -real-life werewolves, except that they were never human… unless you buy into the conspiracy theory that they’re genetically altered humans (or genetically altered wolves) created by the military. I subsist on stories about witches, werewolves, and cryptids, specifically dogmen. Personally, I feel attacked by it, because it’s true! (It’s also my new favorite meme.) This meme is floating around the Internet. It’s about werewolves and publishing-two of my very favorite things. I also wouldn’t be able to sleep tonight if I didn’t mention that Wolf (1994), starring Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, and James Spader, is a close runner-up for my favorite werewolf movie. (Shout out to The Werewolf Filmography for teaching me that fact!) ![]() If werewolves were real, then this is how I imagine they would look, and the movie gets bonus points for exclusively using makeup and animatronics instead of CGI. It’s scary when it’s supposed to be scary, and it’s funny when the tension reaches a peak. The story is tight, and the pacing is perfect. I should probably write an entire essay about my love for Dog Soldiers (2002), but for now, I’ll offer a few simple sentences. You probably also want to know about my favorite werewolf movie, right? I’ve had a lot of time to think about this. (Now wish me luck as I attempt to watch each and every one of these movies.) What does that mean? It means that you’ll know which movies feature bipedal and quadrupedal werewolves-something that matters greatly to me. It even contains notes on the morphology of each werewolf. From Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman to WolfCop, this filmography highlights more than 300 werewolf movies in alphabetical order, and it includes images, facts, and commentary from the cast and crew. This hardcover book reads like a college textbook-one that you would have gladly purchased at the campus bookstore for $45.00. Well, my sister came to the rescue and recently gave me this book as a birthday gift, and I’m so glad she did because I didn’t realize how much I needed it. I wanted this book for years- years -but, for some reason, couldn’t bring myself to buy it. How do you achieve your goal for werewolf world domination? You start by watching every film featured in The Werewolf Filmography: 300+ Movies. Given that knowledge, hopefully, this first werewolf rec won’t seem so strange.įor the Werewolf Movie Buff (So… Not Aunt Libby) ![]() No matter how much I approve of Stephen Graham Jones’s Mongrels, Aunt Libby would not approve of my steady diet of werewolf flicks.īut I can’t help it when bones crack and skin stretches and fur sprouts and mouths become muzzles, I simply cannot look away. Most of my werewolf knowledge comes from movies. Since Matt already highlighted so much gnarly werewolf fiction in his blog post, I figured I would touch on a few pieces of lesser-known werewolf media that I love to howl about! I plan to read many of the books that Matt recommended, starting with Hellhound by Lou Yardley. Horror friend and Night Worms reviewer recently wrote a truly stellar Creature Feature blog post about werewolf fiction. ( Lon Po Po, anyone? This story always left me with wide eyes when I was a kid.) I’m honored that others think of me when they think of werewolves! I suppose that’s because I have been both obsessed with and terrified of these anthropomorphic, bipedal beasts since childhood. And just last week, my brother-in-law randomly texted me to ask why werewolves sometimes eat hearts.Īpparently, I have developed a furry, teeth-gnashing, guttural growling, howl-at-the-moon kind of reputation. Two weeks ago, while driving to Salem, my husband blasted a ten-minute track of nothing but werewolves howling. In August, my family gave me werewolf gloves, feet, and a mask for my birthday. In July, the Night Worms team asked me to write a blog post about werewolves. I didn’t realize that I had developed a reputation. Beware These Werewolf Books! By Sadie Hartmann
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