Werewolf History, Latest Updates

Time for another updated round-up of all the posts in my Werewolf Wednesday series. From fifth-century theology to 1970s exploitation cinema, it’s all here for your reading pleasure…

Literature:

• “Bisclavret” by Marie de France (12th Century)
• The Ballad of the Loup-Garou (c.1501) 
• A History of the Ridiculous Extravagancies of Monsieur Oufle by Laurent Bordelon (1710)
• “Hugues, the Wer-Wolf” by Sutherland Menzies (1838)
• “The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains” by Frederick Marryat (1839)
• “The Hand of the Were-Wolf” (1841)
• Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf by George W. M. Reynolds (1846-7)
• “The Man-Wolf” by Émile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian (1859)
• “The Wehr-Wolf’s Song” (1859)
• “The White Wolf of Kostopchin” by Sir Gilbert Campbell (1889)
• “The Were-Wolf” by Clemence Housman (1890)
• “The Other Side” by Count Eric Stenbock (1893)
• “The Werewolf” by Eugene Field (1896)
• “Gabriel-Ernest” by Saki (1909)
• “Running Wolf” by Algernon Blackwood (1920)
• “In the Forest of Villefére” by Robert E. Howard (1925)
• “Wolfshead” by Robert E. Howard (1926)
• “The Refugee” by Jane Rice (1943)
• “Wolves Don’t Cry” by Bruce Elliott (1954)
• “Canis Lupus Sapiens” by Alex Hamilton (1966)

Scholarship, folklore and purportedly true stories:

• De civitate Dei contra paganos by Augustine of Hippo (5th Century)
• French-Latin dictionary (1549)
• Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus by Olaus Magnus (1555)
• De praestigiis daemonum by Johann Weyer (1564 edition)
• De Lamiis Liber by Johann Weyer (1577)
• Nomenclator of Hadrianus Junius (1577/86)
• De la Démonomanie des sorciers by Jean Bodin (1580)
• The Damnable Life and Death of Stubbe Peeter (1590)
• A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence by Richard Verstegen (1605)
• The trial of Jean Grenier (1610)
• Epistolae Ho-Elianae (1655)
• Glossographia (1656)
• The human-headed warwolf of heraldry (1722)
• The Scots Magazine (1802)
• Travels Through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland by Giuseppe Acerbi (1802)
• Analytical Dictionary of the English Language (1835)
• The History of France Part 1 by Edward Smedley (1836)
• Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal (1849)
• Northern Mythology by Benjamin Thorpe (1851)
• The Book of Were-Wolves by Sabine Baring-Gould (1865)
• Chambers’s Encyclopedia (1868)
• Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1870)
• Werwolves by Elliott O’Donnell (1912)

Films:

• Wolfblood (1925)
• Werewolf of London (1935)
• The Wolf Man (1941)
• The Mad Monster (1942)
• The Undying Monster (1942)
• Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
• Return of the Vampire (1943)
• Cry of the Werewolf (1944)
• House of Frankenstein (1944)
• House of Dracula (1945)
• She-Wolf of London (1946)
• Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
• The Werewolf (1956)
• I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)
• Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (1957)
• How to Make a Monster (1958)
• The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
• Werewolf in a Girls’ Dormitory (1961)
• House on Bare Mountain (1962)
• Face of the Screaming Werewolf (1964)
• Hercules, Prisoner of Evil (1964)
• The Blue Demon (1965)
• Dr Terror’s House of Horrors (1965)
• Mark of the Wolf Man (1968)
• The Maltese Bippy (1969)
• Blood of Dracula’s Castle (1969)
• The Mummy and the Curse of the Jackals (1969)
• Dracula the Dirty Old Man (1969)
• Assignment Terror (1969)
• Cry of the Banshee (1970)
• Fury of the Wolfman (1970)
• The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman (1971)
• Beast of the Yellow Night (1971)
• Werewolves on Wheels (1971)
• The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here! (1972)
• Dr. Jekyll and the Wolfman (1972)
•  Moon of the Wolf (1972)
• The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (1973)
• Curse of the Devil (1973)
• Blood (1973)
• The Werewolf of Washington (1973)
• The Beast Must Die (1974)
• Legend of the Werewolf (1975)