Werewolves
Jul. 3rd, 2007 10:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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darkling_talesms_timorous666)I just read a book entitled Werwolves by Elliott O'Donnell, originally published in 1903. It is supposed to be a scholarly study about werewolves and lycanthropy but it's mainly a bunch of stories that the author has heard from other people or retold from other sources. It's hard to take this book as a serious study of werewolves when there is little to no source for his stories. The stories themselves are entertaining and some pretty gruesome, but they aren't told that well. However, the stories I particularly enjoyed were "The Case of Herr Hellen and the Werwolves of the Harz Mountains" and "The Case of Constance Armande, Ghoul" (which really has little to do with lycanthropy). It was an entertaining book, slightly informative but not as much as I expected.
Soon I will read The Book of Werewolves by S. Baring-Gould, which hopefully will be more informative. (Incidentally, this author has also written some ghost stories that might be worth a read).
Has anyone else read any classic books (pre-1950, let's say) of supernatural/psychic nonfiction? Were they any good?
