Beast: Werewolves, Serial Killers, and Man-Eaters: The Mystery of the Monsters of the G?vaudan

by Gustavo Sánchez Romero and S.R. Schwalb

Book Overview

Using modern biology and history to investigate a series of grisly deaths in the countryside of 18th-century France. Something unimaginable occurred from 1764 to 1767 in the remote highlands of south-central France. For three years, a real-life monster, or monsters, ravaged the region, slaughtering by some accounts more than 100 people, mostly women and children, and inflicting severe injuries upon many others. Alarmed rural communities--and their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1632204622
• ISBN13: 9781632204622
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.1"