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The modern conception of the werewolf and his lore (it usually is
his) is mainly conveyed by the movies, in an unbroken chain beginning with Universal Pictures’
The Wolf Man of 1941, starring Lon Chaney Jr., and continuing today in the rather good
Underworld series. The roots of these lie in the pulp fiction of the early twentieth century. Amongst all this, werewolf afficionados usually single out one novel as retaining some literary merit, Guy Endore’s 1933
The Werewolf of Paris.
But what about before this? Many may instinctively imagine roots further back in the medieval world, and that is right enough: the twelfth century AD is witness to a remarkable flowering of werewolf tales from England, France and the Viking realms of Iceland and Scandinavia. However, long before even this, werewolves were stalking the writings of the Greeks and the Romans between the fifth century BC (arguably earlier) and the fifth century AD. Striking stories and claims about them are found