The Werewolf of Paris: A Novel
Endore’s classic werewolf novel—now Back in print for the first time in over forty years—helped define a genre and set a new standard in horror fiction.The werewolf is one of the great iconic figures of horror in folklore, legend, film, and literature. And connoisseurs of horror fiction know that...
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Endore’s classic werewolf novel—now Back in print for the first time in over forty years—helped define a genre and set a new standard in horror fiction.The werewolf is one of the great iconic figures of horror in folklore, legend, film, and literature. And connoisseurs of horror fiction know that The Werewolf of Paris is a cornerstone work, a masterpiece of the genre that deservedly ranks with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.Endore’s classic novel has not only withstood the test of time since it was first published in 1933, but it boldly used and portrayed elements of sexual compulsion in ways that had never been seen before, at least not in horror literature.In this gripping work of historical fiction, Endore’s werewolf, an outcast named Bertrand Caillet, travels across pre-Revolutionary France seeking to calm the beast within. Stunning in its sexual frankness and eerie, fog-enshrouded visions, this novel was decidedly influential for the generations of horror and science fiction authors who came afterward.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781605983530 (1605983535)
Publish date: July 1st 2012
Publisher: Pegasus
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
American,
Historical Fiction,
Shapeshifters,
Horror,
France,
Gothic,
Supernatural,
Werewolves
Written in 1933, this is framed with a story of an American finding a discarded manuscript about the werewolf, Bertrand Caillet. Set in France in the late 19th Century, this tries to be for werewolves what Dracula is to vampires, filled with lots of werewolf lore. The novel doesn't gloss over the ...
Dark but also at times sweet and moving story about a man who turns into a werewolf at night and runs through the streets of Paris. A common plot in the horror genre now but this is an early telling. Endore humanizes the man and shows that he doesn't really enjoy what he is but what is he to do? The...
The Werewolf of Paris is an interesting book. Part horror story and part historical fiction, it follows the travails of the titular werewolf of Paris from his birth to his death, as well as his place in the blood-drenched moment of history known as the Franco-Prussian War that was followed by the il...