Pauline Baynes' illustraion

SOURCE: Prince Caspian (1951) by C. S. Lewis

DESCRIPTION: "...Peter had a glimpse of a horrible, grey, gaunt creature, half man and half wolf, in the very act of leaping upon a boy about his own age..."

PLOT: The werewolf scene in Prince Caspian is short. Surrounded by King Miraz's army, the defenders of Old Narnia are growing desperate for allies. Nikabrik the dwarf invites two creatures to parlay, a werewolf and a hag. The arrival of the Pevensies (Peter, Susan, Edmond and Lucy) is just in time to kill the two evil monsters.

WEREWOLF FACTS: The werewolf in this novel is a wolfman, not a wolf but a half man/half wolf monster.

INTERESTING FACTS: Lewis probably chose this kind of werewolf because in Narnia there are talking wolves such as Maugrim, Chief of the Secret Police. Animals can talk and he didn't want to confuse the two types of monsters. The Pauline Baynes illustration is reminiscent of medieval illustrations and werewolves. I suspect this werewolf influenced J. K. Rowling's in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.