Publisher's Synopsis
THE COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO WEREWOLVES takes you deep into the mysterious corners of the werewolf world - and brings you out alive. You'll learn about the history of shapeshifters and werewolves from around the world, savagely entertaining werewolf facts and stories and how humans transform into these beasts (and what kills them). The book includes: · European werewolves, North American shape-shifters and wolf-people all over the world. · Cursed, enchanted, and viral - how humans become werewolves. · Werewolves in culture: in film, from Lon Chaney's The Wolf Man to The Howling to The American Werewolf series to 2009's New Moon and in art, urban legend, role-playing and video games and more. · Once bitten ... then what? The transformation itself. · Possible explanations for the werewolf phenomena.