
There is much work still to be done, many facts to be verified and many more leads and sidetracks to be followed. The following pages tell a few of the stories I have uncovered. Almost no one knows that there are many forms of lycanthropy, and not all of them are occult in nature.
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From the Big Bad Wolf of nursery tales to the computer-generated beasts of the movies, they have earned a prominent place in popular culture. I called Joe, and after looking at my initial findings he agreed to give me time to continue this line of research. There was a story here, I knew – though what I could not have anticipated was just how many stories there were, and how many different groups were involved. I turned to less orthodox avenues of inquiry, and what I found fully bore out my first instincts. However, the few snippets of information I had unearthed on the Tyana Institute convinced me that there was more to find. In the interests of the Nightmen project, I should probably have moved on. I began with orthodox sources, and made a number of inquiries through contacts in various European universities, but this initial research hit a dead end. It was while I was researching the 34th’s operations in World War II – in particular, their encounters with the Werwolf guerillas of SS Obergruppenführer Hans-Adolf Prützmann in Cologne and elsewhere – that I first heard of the Tyana Institute. Both flattered and intrigued, I agreed and began working on background research. Impressed by what he had seen of my research into the Knights Templar, Joe invited me to collaborate with him on the Nightmen project. During the course of writing his book, Joe had been granted unprecedented access to the US Army’s 34th Specialist Regiment, nicknamed the Nightmen, and had been approached to compile an official unit history of this remarkable group of men and women. Introduction In 2013, I received an email from Joseph McCullough, the author of Zombies: A Hunter’s Guide.Werewolves offers the dearly bought information from those that have hunted them down through the centuries - the best techniques to find and slay these creatures of the night. It illustrates the startling variety of werewolf subspecies, as diverse as humanity itself, collecting reports of skinwalkers, hengeyokai, and other shapeshifters from across the world. It reveals the secret societies devoted to studying their condition, providing information on where werewolves live, and what they do to survive.

This book is the only thing standing between humanity and an overwhelming horde of snarling, ferocious lycanthropes. For thousands of years, from ancient Greek chronicles to modern news reports, from the depths of the darkest forests to dimly lit city streets, these dread beasts have stalked us in the realms of shadow and nightmare. Werewolves reveals the shocking role that werewolves have played in some of history's most significant events.įear the full moon for on that day of lunacy the terrible wrath of the werewolves is unleashed.
