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[yendi]

The April issue of Bookslut hit today. My column is a very preliminary look at werewolf books (a topic I'll need to revisit down the road). lizlet and hangingfire collaborate on a look at Sin City as an adaptation; there are interviews with Camille Paglia, Ian Rankin, and Sonya Taafe (aka sovay); and The Mystery Strumpet takes a look at Travis McGee, one of my favorite detectives. All are worth a read.

Comments

[corwinok.livejournal.com]

Wooo, thank you! I love werewolves, and it's good to have another set of books to put on reserve. I've even had a hankering for lycanthropic pursuits recently, having watched two of the three Ginger Snaps movies (the third should be here tomorrow).

And McGee is a long time favorite of mine too!

[yendi]

I've still only seen the first Ginger Snaps movie -- I keep meaning to borrow #2 from jet_li_wannabe, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

[corwinok.livejournal.com]

It's not bad. It's not near as good as the first one, as you can expect, but it's still better than a great many werewolf movies I've seen.

Granted, that's not hard to do considering I once saw I think it was Howling 7 on Monstervision with Joe Bob Briggs and would have sworn it was filmed entirely with a cheap camcorder.

[hookncrook.livejournal.com]

Have you read the original Werewolf text by that French Monk/priest from the mid 1700's? It is very interesting because he not only uses folklore, but interviewed villages dealing with werewolves and even a sherpard that becamme a werewolf. His ideas on werewolves are very interesting.

[yendi]

Do you mean the book by Sabine-Baring Gould? It's the first item I talk about (but he was English, even if he wrote about the French, so I'm not sure we're thinking of the same thing).

[hookncrook.livejournal.com]

Nope it wasn't Gould, that was more legends..this was a monk/priest who actually talked to people attacked by werewolves and could turn into werewolves. he covers a bit of legends, but his work is mostly on face to face interviews -- and the book was translated from French, I think. I'll have to go home and pull it from my library.

You know who I thought did a nice Christian Werewolf story was Robert Howard and Solomon Kane battled a werewolf in one short story...it was very well done.

[jet-li-wannabe.livejournal.com]

Great column. You know I'm a sucker for werewolves.