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Type of bind: Paperback
EAN num: 9781606110119
ISBN number: 160611011X
Label: Global Communications/Mr Creepo Presents
Manufacturer: Global Communications/Mr Creepo Presents
Page Count: 230
Printing Date: June 04, 2008
Publishing house: Global Communications/Mr Creepo Presents
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WEREWOLVES ARE NOT JUST THE WORK OF HORROR WRITERS, MASTER CINEMATOGRAPHRS OR SPECIAL EFFECTS WIZARDS. . . THEY ARE FOR REAL! Or so says noted paranormal researcher Timothy Green Beckley, who has also generated a reputation as a B-Movie horror host using the moniker of Mr Creepo. . . Calling upon noted experts in the field of cryptozoology, Beckley has compiled a virtually exhaustive history of Lycanthropy, as well as the phenomenon of shape-shifting, which has been reported in all cultures throughout history. A portion of the book written by noted author Brad Steiger is devoted to the 'sexual hunger' of the Werewolf, as well as its importance in global cinema. . . Among relevant disclosures, readers will learn how to stop a werewolf in its tracks...and it's NOT just with silver bullets or wolfbane.
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Timothy Green Beckley of Global Communications has long been a phenomenon unto himself in the world of New Age and occult publishing, but with "Timothy Green Beckley's Big Book of Werewolves," even a jaded veteran of this kind of literature like myself has to say that Tim has reached new heights of classy cheesiness. That may sound like a contradiction in terms, but if you read this latest offering, I think you will see what I mean.
The subject is werewolves, as the title makes clear, and Tim has brought together several of his writers to introduce the reader to the latest on the hairy shape-shifters before presenting a beautiful reprint of a book called "The Book of Werewolves" by the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Baring-Gould also wrote the warhorse hymn "Onward Christian Soldiers," so you know you're in good company there.
Baring-Gould's book is a scholarly, nearly encyclopedic treatment of the folklore and myths surrounding werewolves, written from an early 20th century perspective, before the bizarre subject became diluted with the psychobabble of psychiatry and lost some of its overwhelming power to frighten and fascinate in real-world terms. Baring-Gould relates werewolf anecdotes that go back to the Middle Ages (when lycanthropy was very first recognized as a disease) and even further into the ancient Greeks, demonstrating how all cultures throughout history have maintained a belief in the existence of humans able to transform themselves into wild beasts, wreak havoc and cause much bloodshed.
The Reverend also discusses some of the baggage humans bring to the situation, writing that man, naturally and in common with other carnivores, is actuated by an impulse to kill and by a love of destroying life. This tendency exists in people in varying degrees, in both the well-educated and the ignorant. It is possible at any point to blur the line between man and beast.
In the interest of full disclosure, my own contribution to the book is a pair of chapters in which I interview present-day werewolf hunters Linda Godfrey and Nick Redfern. Believe it or not, werewolf sightings continue to happen in certain regions in the U.S. and U.K., and the two crypto-zoologists offer up a wealth of case studies and personal experiences. Redfern even claims to have been visited in his bedroom by a wolf walking on two legs and wearing a hood and whose growling sounds also seemed to function as a kind of language for the phantom beast.
Brad Steiger has assembled an excellent group of genuinely terrifying werewolf anecdotes, one of which involves the murder of a young girl in 16th century France. The accused killer was a werewolf who prowled the woods by night, snarling and drooling and tearing out the throats and entrails of passersby. When the werewolf was executed, he screamed blasphemies so terrible that those assembled were forced to close their ears, and he died with a cry of pain that could have come from neither man nor beast.
In addition, Tim Swartz has collected several pages of movie posters used to advertise the cinematic incarnations of the hirsute howlers as well as an informative filmography of werewolf-themed movies that is easy to browse through and worth keeping as a collector's item.
"Big Book of Werewolves" is a real bargain for those who believe in the possibility of real-life werewolves as well as a marvelous entertainment for those who just enjoy a good scary story. In either case, the thrills and chills are here in abundance.
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