The Werewolf Scrapbook

[helrunar]

I really love these posts because you're turning me on to more of these early 50s horror comics, and they're all such fun!  Out of the Night seems like a cool title.

"The Werewolves" was a sweet little yarn, though the title telegraphed the finale.  

The lead comics story in that book, "The Raven Sisters," has an enticing look to it.  Right at the start the blonde heroine declaims to her husband:  "You know me, darling--I'm not scared of anything!  I don't believe in ghosts or haunted houses or any of that nonsense!"  Obviously yet another flip ingenue unaware of just how egregiously she is tempting fate in making such ill-advised remarks...

H.

[jamesdoig]

This one of Fantasy Classics:



Borderlands was a good Canadian magazine of the 1980s edited by horror scholar R.S. Hadji. This issue had Stenbock's "The Other Side" with a fairly tame illustration:

[helrunar]

Wow, good old Count Stenbock!  

I really need to read more of his exotic vintage...

cheers, H.

[dem]

Sewell Peaslee Wright - The Wolf: (Weird Tales, Nov 1927.). A weird tale of the Canadian Northwest - across the fire the man faced the evil thing that sprang for his throat.

Hugh Rankin

Tieg McDonald of the Provincial Police arrives at a hunter's camp with a prisoner in tow. Dr. Saunders is under arrest for the cold-blooded murder of Victor, a universally unpopular Bush guide. Saunders explains to his hosts that, while McDonald regards him as a 'madman,' still he needs to unburden himself of the truth regarding that strange and terrible night at Tenelip Bay where he made the fatal mistake of mocking the Frenchman's belief in Rougarou. Victor, whose hair-trigger temperament and cruel streak are notorious, goes AWOL in the trees leaving Saunders alone by the camp-fire. Nothing to worry about. The flames will frighten away any timberwolf.

Except for this one.

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Sept 28, 2016 21:38:43 GMT jamesdoig said:

Phillip C. Heath's Dead Man's Fingers, cover story for Borderlands #2, is arguable the masterpiece of crusty-barnacles-on-the-rampage literature. The High Priest of Acid Gothic, Karl E. Wagner, had the impeccable taste to include in a very strong Years Best Horror XIV

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It could be argued that Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg (eds.) monster treat, 100 Creepy Little Creatures (Barnes & Noble, 1994), qualifies as a mini-werewolf anthology lurking within a vaster work?

George MacDonald - The Gray Wolf: (Works of Fancy and Imagination, 1871)

Feodor Sologub - The White Dog: (Weird Tales, Feb 1926).

Orlin Frederick - The Throwback: (Weird Tales, Oct. 1926).

Ralph Allen Lang - The Silver Knife (Weird Tales, Jan. 1932).

Henry S. Whitehead - No Eye-Witnesses (Weird Tales, Aug. 1932).

Brooke Byrne - The Werewolf’s Howl: (Weird Tales, Dec. 1934).

H. L. Thomson - The Fisherman's Special (Weird Tales, Aug 1939).

Clifford Ball - The Werewolf Howls: (Weird Tales, Nov. 1941)

Manly Wade Wellman - The Werewolf Snarls: (Weird Tales, March 1937).

Clark Ashton Smith - Monsters in the Night: (aka A Prophecy of Monsters, MFSF,Oct. 1954).

Thomas Ligotti - The Real Wolf: (Nocturne #1, 1988).

Reprinted in the same volume, Saki's Laura concerns reincarnation though it could easily sneak under the wire as were-otter fiction. Co-editor also cites Barry Pain's The Moon-Slave as werewolf fiction, though readers may or may not agree that the dancer who visits Viola in the maze is more likely Pan.

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Seabury Quinn was also fond of the legend;

G. O. Olinick

The Phantom Farmhouse: ((Weird Tales, October 1923)
The Blood-Flower: (Weird Tales, March 1927)
The Wolf of St. Bonnot: (Weird Tales, December 1930)
The Thing in the Fog: (Weird Tales, March 1933)
Uncanonized: (Weird Tales, November 1939)
The Gentle Werewolf: (Weird Tales, July 1940)
Bon Voyage, Michele: (Weird Tales, January 1944)

There may be more (The Ring of Bastet ?).

Catspaw: (Weird Tales, July, 1946) concerns a pair of gloves that transform the wearer into a panther.

Jayem Wilcox

Seabury Quinn - The Thing of the Fog: A goose-flesh werewolf novelette, replete with chills and shudders.

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Four illustrations from the original batch of H. Warner Munn's Tales Of The Werewolf Clan

Hugh Rankin (Weird Tales, Nov. 1928)

The Werewolf Of Ponkert (Weird Tales, July 1925)
The Return Of The Master (Weird Tales, July 1927)
The Werewolf's Daughter (Weird Tales, Oct. 1928/ Nov. 1928/ Dec. 1928)
The Master Strikes (Weird Tales, Nov. 1930)
The Master Fights (Weird Tales, Dec. 1930)
The Master Has A Narrow Escape (Weird Tales, Jan. 1931)

C. C. Senf (Weird Tales, July 1927)

Hugh Rankin (Weird Tales, Dec. 1928)

Hugh Rankin (Weird Tales, Nov. 1930)

The Master Strikes, The Master Fights and The Master Has A Narrow Escape shared the same illustration (with a different heading, obviously)

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Weird Werewolf Tales. Yet more of them.

Greye La Spina - Werewolf Of The Sahara (Weird Tales, Aug-Sept, 1936)

Harold S. De Lay

Gans T. Field - The Hairy Ones Shall Dance (Weird Tales, Jan/ Feb/ March, 1938)

Virgil Finlay

Lireve Monet (Everil Worrell) - Norn (Weird Tales, Feb. 1936)

Vincent Napoli

Manly Banister - Loup-Garou (Weird Tales, May 1947)

John Giunta

Wallace West - Loup-Garou (Weird Tales, October, 1927)
Manly Banister - Satan's Bondage (Weird Tales, Sept. 1942)
Manly Banister - Devil Dog (Weird Tales, July 1945)
Manly Banister - Eena (Weird Tales, Sept 1947)

Captain S. P. Meek - The Curse of the Valedi (Weird Tales, July 1935)

Hugh Rankin

I'm not 100% sure about The Curse of the Valedi - as it's still on the to-read pile and the creature in Rankin's (very lovely) illustration looks more Alsatian than wolf. The blurb doesn't give a whole lot away in this respect, though we're definitely in the right neck of the woods. "An eery tale of the dark powers that infest the slopes of the Carpathians."

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Brian J. Frost - The Essential Guide To Werewolf Literature (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003)

Bryan Ellingson

Preface
Acknowledgements

The Werewolf Phenomenon
A Survey Of Reference Works
The Werewolf Enters Fiction
A New Approach
The Beast Within
The Boom Years
Werewolf Anthologies

Bibliography
Index

Blurb:
Literature & Criticism / Popular Culture

In this fascinating book, Brian J. Frost presents the first full-scale survey of werewolf literature covering both fiction and nonfiction works. He identifies principal elements in the werewolf myth, considers various theories of the phenomenon of shapeshifting, surveys nonfiction books, and traces the myth from its origins in ancient superstitions to its modern representations in fantasy and horror fiction.

Frost's analysis encompasses fanciful medieval beliefs, popular works by Victorian authors, scholarly treatises and medical papers, and short stories from pulp magazines of the 1930s and 1940s. Revealing the complex nature of the werewolf phenomenon and its tremendous and continuing influence, The Essential Guide to Werewolf Literature is destined to become a standard reference on the subject.

"A major contribution to the fields of popular horror fiction and popular folklore. Frost's approach, covering both little- and well-known works of literature, is inclusive, and the final result is one of the best discussions of the topic I have ever seen!"
—Gary Hoppenstand, Michigan State University

"I consider this book to be a valuable contribution- to the study,of werewolf literature, written in a style that should be pleasing to anyone reading the book, not just for collectors or researchers."

—Ray Browne

Brian J. Frost is the editor of Book of the Werewolf and author of The Monster with a Thousand Faces: Guises of the Vampire in Myth and Literature.


Will give Mr. Frost's magnificent book a thread to itself eventually, but for now it belongs on what is left of this one.

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Mark Valentine (ed.) - The Werewolf Pack (Wordsworth Editions, June 2008)

Alfred H. Bill - The Wolf In The Garden (Centaur, Feb. 1972: originally Longmans Green, 1931)

Virgil Finlay

Blurb:
WEREWOLF THRILLER
Here is a marvelous werewolf thriller set in up­state New York in the days close after the American Revolution. A series of bizarre and horrifying events besiege the village of New Dortrecht with the advent of the French Comte de Saint Loup and his hound DeRetz. A giant wolf, possessed with evil intelligence and savage fury, sates its desire for blood in a series of horrifying and supernatural killings.

THE WOLF IN THE GARDEN is destined to be­come a classic werewolf tale. First published in 1931, this long-forgotten novel may be the finest werewolf thriller ever written.

Various shorts.

Jack Oleck - Wolf Spawn (House Of Mystery 2, Warner 1973).
E. H. Visiak - In The Mangrove Hall (Masterpiece Of Thrills, c. 1936)

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Sample page from the Paperback Fanatic #23 feature which inspired this thread.

Heard from Justin last night and Pulp Horror #6, Men Of Violence 7 & 8 Men Of Violence are due within next few days.

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A WOLF BOY

"He bit and scratched furiously in resisting capture, and when taken into human society drank like a dog, tore up his clothes, and would eat nothing but bones and raw meat, after first smelling it well.

After many months he learned to say the name of the lady who adopted him, but could never articulate more than a few words. His intellect was always clouded, but, dog-like, he was exceptionally quick at understanding signs.

"People who live much among animals always gain some animal characteristics, even if such be confined to the ability to imitate a particular animal's call. For myself, I can cause a stir of curiosity among many birds by imitating their cries, and I have known men who can in that way bring back a tom-cat to a certain spot over and over again cause quite a commotion in a rookery at nesting time, or put a bird in a complete state of mystery as to the whereabouts of it's supposed mate."

Gilbert White has recorded a remarkable case of a boy who lived so much among bees that he became a very bee-bird.

In winter he dozed away the days in a state almost of torpor. He spent all his time by the fire. But in summer bees were his sole food and amusement. He rushed after them all day long in the sunshine, buzzing all the while like a bee.

Every kind of bee was his prey. He was never stung although he must have caught thousands and sucked them for their honey. Some he kept in bottles: others between his shirt and his skin until wanted.

He would actually enter private gardens to steal bees, sometimes turning hives upside down. Needless to say, the boy was a hopeless idiot.


Source unrecorded, dated 1903. Collected in Paul Sieveking [ed.] Man Bites Man. The Scrapbook Of An English Eccentric. George Ives, Penguin, 1991).

HOWL AT THE LUNE

Australian police went to a farm near Blayney in New South Wales this week after receiving a phone call from a woman saying that her boyfriend had turned “into a werewolf". On arrival they found the 26-year-old man's parents and girlfriend sitting together in a terrified huddle; Earlier in the evening the man had attempted to eat his younger brother and in the process covered-him in bloody bites. The police found the offender sitting in his car, staring at the moon and making growling noises.

The Independent 28 September, 1990. Reprinted in the first issue of Crimson fanzine in the 'Curious Cases' dept., as was;

MEET DRACULA'S DOLLIES: "I SHRIEKED AS THE BLOOD BUBBLED.“

A supernatural fright scene in a ruined church scared the daylights out of lovely Caroline Munro.

That was in Dracula AD 1972 when the villain, Johnny Alucard, (that's Dracula backwards) was calling up the Devil.

"I had to be carried to the alter, but when the make-believe blood bubbled over my body, I felt the atmosphere suddenly become frightening," Caroline recalled. "When Christopher Lee, with his fangs, came to finish the job, I got carried away. My screams were real."

Caroline, aged 23, went on: "That wasn't the only scary part. When a big velvet curtain started to move, the whole cast became apprehensive. There was no ventilation or draught that could have caused it. It only moved when the Devil was called up. Until then, I'd had my share of vampire's victim parts and I always thought it a lot of fun. I never thought I could be scared by a horror movie!"

News of the World 10th December 1972.

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J. C. Conaway - Quarrel With The Moon (TOR, Apr. 1982)

Blurb
WORSE THAN ANY NIGHTMARE
It began with the bones. Strange remains of a creature almost human....

Josh Holman at the New York Institute of Anthropology could not believe his eyes. He seemed to be staring at a new kind of missing link!

The remains had come from the mountains of West Virginia. Josh would investigate. And with him would go his lady, beautiful Cresta Farraday, taking a vacation from her career as a top fashion model, hoping to revitalize her relationship with Josh.

But the strange bones were the least of it. Before Josh and Cresta arrived in West Virginia, three people would die. Horribly....

And they were only the first.
Something in the mountains was hungry.
Something that craved human flesh.
Something that had a QUARREL WITH THE MOON

Don't know how I could have overlooked including this one until now as I loved it on first acquaintance although, as is so often the case, the "review" ends abruptly, and I can no longer recall if Josh's "formidable genitals" come out of it unscathed.

And if you fancy co-starring with your loved one in very own time travel-werewolf-spy thriller, our old friends at Romance By You have extended their repertoire to include something called Fierce Moon. Try the free personalised demo!

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Carl Kidwell The Devil's Pool, Magazine Of Horror #11, Nov. 1965.

More filler fiction from the horror comics.

Anon - Return of the Werewolf!: (Chamber Of Chills # 25, Oct. 1954). Not to be confused with the Return of the Werewolf which appeared in Chamber Of Chills # 5, Feb. 1952). Night of the full moon. Inspector Wilson and his subordinate, Hawkins, lie in wait for the werewolf of the moors. The rumour mill has it that the beast's lair is the Wellington house as the family are said to be cursed by a terrible sickness. Presumably the girl in the illustration is a previous victim.

Anon - Monsieur Werewolf: (Forbidden Worlds #1, July-Aug 1951). "I'm a student of Heidelberg University, studying for my doctorate in Occultology." The young man visits reclusive author Monsieur Jacques Turenne to ask how comes he knows so much about lycanthropy?

Fangs of the Werewolf: (Voodoo #10, July 1953). That's no monster, that's my wif-eeeeeaAAAARGH!!!!""!"

The Bride of Jan Malthek: (The Beyond #29, Nov. 1954). Carpathian Mountains, 1853. Malthek the village glass-blower discovers that his bride, Sofia, is a werewolf. jan can't bring himself to kill her, but something has to be done so, while Sofia is off gallivanting on the mountain, he scrutinises her Grimoire for the appropriate 'How to super-shrink your wife until she'll fit inside a glass bottle' spell.

[helrunar]

These are hysterical. Thanks Dem.  I desperately needed a giggle.

cheers, H.