The Werewolf in Lore and Legend

by Montague Summers

Book Overview

Written by a venerable author of occult studies, The Werewolf in Lore and Legend is the first definitive book on werewolfery and the remarkable successor to Montague Summers's popular work, The Vampire. Unsurpassed in its sheer scope and depth, it employs an extensive range of historical documentation and folklore from throughout Europe to powerfully portray the horror associated with belief in werewolves.
Summers adopts a comprehensive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486430901
• ISBN13: 9780486430904
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

The definitive book of werewolfery!

This is the textbook of werewolfery and, is about as entertaining as any college textbook would be. It was written in the days before the Hollywood werewolf and, reads like an Audubon Society field guide to birds. If you are looking for the definitive non-fiction work on the subject, you have found it. If you are looking for "Werewolf: The Apocalypse" type kitsch, you're in over your head here.

I cannot wait for this book to come out!

1O/11/97 E-mail (Eugene IV) I wish and hope to see more works by the author Montague Summers. His books are quite rare, and are great to read. I'm delighted to see this work being published again by the famed Montague Summers and his book "The Were Wolf". A thrilling and rather frighful account of a series of events that took place during the 15th and 18th centuries. Father Montague 188O/1948 an English Priest of the Catholic Church goes into depth about the heart chilling details of "The Were Wolf". How the Were Wolf is not just folk lore, but part of the belief of the Catholic Church, that condemned such monster's attributing there existence to the devil or satan "The Father of Lies" Gospel of (John:8 44). Filled with wisdom and historical accounts the priest gives his thoughts on the mind of the Catholic Church during that time, and her practice of burning such for there wickedness. A great book for them that doubt or deny the existence of "The Were Wolf".