THE WEREWOLF DELUSION
Book Details + Condition: Paddington Press (New York and London). First Edition, 1979. Hardcover with dust jacket. 256 pages, with Index. Wonderful illustrations throughout. From the jacket: "Here is the first fully documented, thoroughly researched investigation into the terrifying supernatural world of the werewolf. Spotting the glaring gaps in our knowledge of the werewolf legend, and conscious that ignorance and misrepresentation have clouded even our most basic understanding of the subject, the author set out on a fascinating and hair-raising course of investigation. Now, at last, the myths are exposed and the facts are disentangled from the fantasy". Contents include:
- World Nature: Its Ancestry and Superstitions
- The Werewolf Symptom: How to Recognize a Werewolf
- The Werewolf in Antiquity
- Servant of Witchcraft or the Devil
- Torture, Trial and Execution
- And more.
From the massive occult collection of King Lawrence Parker - academic, dissertation author, and book collector extraordinaire. In very good condition, with firm binding; a bit of fading to upper edge of rear cover; Parker's bookplate to inside front board; interior is clean and free of markings, save small note to rear endpaper. Dust jacket shows minor age and wear, and has been price-clipped.
