... of werewolves has existed in many countries and civilizations since antiquity. Traditionally the belief in lycanthropy was first mentioned by Plato. Piny the Elder mentions it in his "Natural History ... the poet Vergil, the novelist Petronius, and the geographer Strabo have written about the act of lycanthropy. In many legends the werewolf is a person born under a curse, and during the time of ...

... a joint book signing. It was a success, but I want to do more, and I’m hoping you’ll want to help … and possibly win a nice prize. So, my annual Give the Gift of Lycanthropy campaign this year is designed to help the good folks of Mission: Wolf provide care for the animals they’ve taken in. <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman",& ...

... only a few involve wolf or dog transformations. Despite its name, those suffering from lycanthropy believe they are transformed into various different animals, such as a 34-year-old schizophrenic woman who thought ... , or clinical depression, but that doesn't explain why those episodes take the form of lycanthropy. There might be neurological factors at play. For instance, certain parts of the ...

... Jodemort...) Throughout her pregnancy, Dora had been inundating Remus with materials about lycanthropy and its passage between generations. One thing it pointed out was abundantly clear: ... quite sick of the theme. The twins had started needling him about how he was going to pass lycanthropy to everyone he met just by breathing on them wrong at the new moon (they'd made up quite ...

... the Shivering Pines forest. As news of this grim discovery reached Jarldorf, it was decided that an investigation needed to take place without the stigma of acting as agents of the crown. Suspecting lycanthropy, an outsider is recruited by the court to travel to Lontharvia and look into the deaths, as well as any possible corruption in Dra'ithkyrn Castle. Beyond the Shivering Pines takes the ...

... , which have carried forward to all werewolf tales that followed. The first Universal film to feature lycanthropy was 1935’s Werewolf of London. It starred Henry Hull as a botanist who gets ... a plant that only blooms during a full moon. Turns out this plant is the only cure for lycanthropy, and thus the werewolf that bit him (Warner Oland, best known as Charlie Chan), comes for him. But Hull ...

... normal puberty. Desperate to save her sister even if she isn't willing to be saved, Bee does some research on lycanthropy (by watching old horror films, natch) and enlists the help of Sam, who has ... 's irresistible final challenge: write a horror movie YOU would go see. And so, eventually, I did. The idea of lycanthropy as a metaphor for a woman's monthly curse is hardly new, but it&# ...

... few people more qualified than artist Francis Tsai, who is working on Top Cow and Heroes and Villains Entertainment's upcoming series, Tracker, which follows an FBI agent after he is infected with lycanthropy. How does one take that sort of vision, and distill it onto the page? Tsai sat down with Newsarama to discuss his influences, his process, and his thoughts on his circituous becoming a ...

... army to play after the Necrons, one had caught my eye - the Space Wolves chapter of the Space Marines. These guys are, dare I say it, Vikings in Space. That pretty much sums it up. Blend in a little lycanthropy for good measure, and that's the Space Wolves. Great background fluff, good rules, great looking models - it has it all. And I had actually gone out and bought a box of minis for ...

... able to categorize and explain relationships in the world. I'm going to have to ponder this further, though. The Mummy is clearly in the same region as Frankenstein, but does the infectious nature of lycanthropy put the Wolfman in the same category as Dracula? I guess if zombies count as converters, so do werewolves. Curiously, the modern monsters of slasher flicks, the Freddies, the ...