SOURCES:
"Camp of the Dog" by Algernon Blackwood (1908)
"British Werewolves" by Eliott O'Donnell (1911)
"In the Forest of Villefere" by Robert E. Howard
"Wolfshead" by Robert E. Howard
The Hanging Stones by Manly Wade Wellman

DESCRIPTION: “Then I saw that it was not Sangree at all.  It was an animal ... it was about the size of a large dog, but at the same time it was utterly unlike any animal that I had ever seen ... It seemed to leap forward between me and Sangree -- in fact to leap upon Sangree, for its dark body hid him momentarily from view ... The creature seemed somehow to melt away into him, almost as though it belonged to him and were a part of himself ...” (“The Camp of the Dog” by Algernon Blackwood)

NOTES: The ectoplasmic werewolf forms when the evil spirit places itself over the form of a human victim. The resulting shape may look like a traditional werewolf or it may only be a wolf-like thing.

HISTORY: Algernon Blackwood and Eliott o'Donnel were actual believers in the psychic phenomenon, but it was Robert E. Howard , the pulp writer, who used the idea to create what has become the traditional idea of a wolfman, a beast with a man's body and the headof a wolf. Howard did this is "Wolfshead" (Weird Tales, April 1926) nine years before Henry Hull would do the same in the movies in 1935's The Werewolf of London based on the 1933 Guy Endore novel, The Werewolf of Paris.

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