The Werewolf of Paris: A Novel
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781480416475 (1480416479)
Publish date: February 26th 2013
Publisher: Pegasus Books
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...