SOURCES: "Camp of the Dog" by Algernon Blackwood (1908)

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 tradfitional werewolf or it may only be a wolf-like thing.

HISTORY: Algernon Blackwood was an actual believer in 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 head of 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.