Category: Werewolf Wednesday

• June 6, 2012

  Book review, Werewolf Wednesday

  Parson, composer, werewolf hunter: Sabine Baring-Gould

  Sabine Baring-Gould is by no means a celebrity today, but in the 19th century he brought a modern sensibility to an ancient body of superstitions: werewolf lore. I first came across his name thanks to A Very Special Christmas, of all things. On the 1987 compilation album, among the carols recorded by the then-current crop…
• May 23, 2012

  The coolest stuff, Werewolf Wednesday, Writing

  Werewolf Wednesday: Catherine Lundoff’s Silver Moon

  If you think the modern werewolf tale is a thinly-veiled metaphor for raging hormones, Catherine Lundoff would say you’re right.  Just maybe not be the ones you’re thinking of. Lycanthropy in pop culture has become so attached to the adolescent (I Was a Teenage Werewolf and Teen Wolf were early examples) that we ignore other times…
• April 25, 2012

  Movies, The coolest stuff, Werewolf Wednesday

  Werewolf Wednesday: Underworld

  I had no idea when I first wrote about Underworld during a stint as movie reviewer for Uptown Magazine that the movie would spawn a four-movie franchise, the latest of which, Underworld: Awakening, hit theatres in March this year. I’m afraid I never got past the sequel.  This first instalment had its moments (few and…
• April 18, 2012

  Music, The coolest stuff, Werewolf Wednesday

  Werewolf Wednesday: Tunes to wolf out to

  As I work on my own interminable werewolf work-in-progress, I think often of what would be on its official soundtrack. This is one of those tricks authors use to avoid writing. We call it brainstorming, or world-building, or visualizing. But it’s not.
• April 11, 2012

  Graphic novels / comic books, The coolest stuff, Werewolf Wednesday

  Werewolf Wednesday: Grant Gould’s The Wolves of Odin

  I had the opportunity to interview comic book writer and artist Grant Gould a few years ago about his labour of love, The Wolves of Odin.  Since then, he’s continued it as a webcomic and worked on a sequel volume, Marauders of Midgard.  I thought I’d post this 2009 interview ahead of Grant’s upcoming appearance at…
• April 4, 2012

  Graphic novels / comic books, The coolest stuff, Werewolf Wednesday

  Werewolf Wednesday: Rachel Deering’s Anathema

  Welcome to a new feature here at As You Were: Werewolf Wednesday. In which we reserve a day for that greatest of monsters, often overlooked thanks to shambling zombies and flawless vampires. Our first feature in the series is with independent comic book writer and letterer Rachel Deering. *  *  * If you’re tired of…