Werwolves
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Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in werewolf legends, European folklore, and supernatural subjects
- Students and enthusiasts studying legend studies and the history of folklore writing
- English readers who enjoy Gothic culture and old-style tales of the strange
- People who need public-domain folklore material for courses or writing reference
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting tense plots and complete stories in the manner of modern horror fiction
- Professional researchers seeking rigorous scholarly verification and annotation
- Beginners who find English hard and need modern rewrites or introductions
Reading tips
- Read the table of contents first and choose chapters by region or story type; no need to read straight through.
- While reading, distinguish "recorded rumor" from "author's commentary" and mark doubtful points as you go.
- Compare with other collections of European folk legends to observe different tellings of the same motif.
- Treat the book as informative essays, reading one or two chapters at a time to avoid fatigue from continuous reading.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
Contents
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About the author
Elliott O’Donnell (1872–1965) was a British writer known for his works on ghosts, hauntings and the supernatural. Ten of his books are held in this collection, including Twenty Years’ Experience as a Ghost Hunter, Werwolves, Byways of Ghost-Land, Animal Ghosts; Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter, Scottish Ghost Stories, The Sorcery Club, The Banshee and Haunted Places in England. His writing draws largely on local ghost lore and haunted-place legends, and also treats folkloric figures such as werewolves and the banshee, in a reportorial style that emphasises atmosphere and the retelling of tales. Public information about him is limited and few biographical details are known, but his works show a sustained interest in collecting and presenting ghost stories from Britain and Europe, making him one of the more active writers of supernatural popular literature in the early twentieth-century English-speaking world.
