Just picked up THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF WOLFMEN which is the old MAMMOTH BOOK OF WEREWOLVES with a new title and cover which looks like they're hoping to cash in on any spillover biz from the upcoming WOLFMAN movie. More power to them, I say.
At first glance it looks the same as the previous edition save for the addition of Neil Gaiman's "Only the End of the World Again."
http://www.amazon.com/Mammoth-Book-Wolf … amp;sr=1-1
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that's not the "Wolf Man" movie picture cover right? that's just a Wolfman they did for this cover? (It's cool either way).
ahhhhh man that sucks if they just changed the name. I have the mammothe book of werewolves. (Only three good stories so far and they were moreso wolf werewolf stories.)
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It's definitely "inspired" by the 'Wolfman' look, that's for sure.
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That's an awesome cover. I've seen the image somewhere before, but I can't recall where.
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I have seen this book floating around. What are your opinions on the content? Are the short stories any good?
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Ha! Very much influenced by Rick Baker's work.
Kinda looks like Brian Blessed with fangs.
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Oh I bought that a week or so ago. Definitely good value for the money.
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From another forum topic that was closed (since this one already existed):
fearless freak wrote:
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i bought this on saturday and i've only just got round to reading it just short of 600 pages, and here's the short stories and novella's contained within:
Twilight at the Towers by Clive Barker
The Dream of the Wolf by Scott Bradfield
Night Beat by Ramsey Campbell
The Werewolf by R Chetwynd-Hayes
Rain Falls by Michael Marshall Smith
Guilty Party by Stephen Laws
Essence of the Beast by Roberta Lannes
Immortal by Mark Morris
Cry Wolf by Basil Copper
Rug by Graham Masterton
The Whisper by Hugh B Cave
And I Shall Go in the Devil's Name by David Sutton
The Foxes of Fascoum by Peter Tremayne
One Paris Night by Karl Edward Wagner
Soul of the Wolf by Brian Mooney
The Hairy Ones Shall Dance by Manly Wade Wellman
Heart of the Beast by Adrian Cole
Wereman by Les Daniels
Anything But Your Kind by Nicholas Royle
The Nighthawk by Dennis Etchison
The Cell by David Case
Boobs by Suzy McKee Charnas
Only the End of the World Again by Neil Gaiman
Out of the Night, When the Full Moon is Bright ... by Kim Newman
Bright of Moon byJo Flecther
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Vindicator wrote:
I have seen this book floating around. What are your opinions on the content? Are the short stories any good?
If you want a variety in werewolf myths then this book is for you. I only liked three stories and some of the intros to some of the stories made me skip them. I actually like the new cover vs. the previous version (sorry a werewolf mullet doesn't work for me.)
yeah but you might like this. I only like Wolfman types or the kind like that STephen King movie. There was one story that was scary which is prettttttyyyyy similar to what happened in American Werewolf in London except imagine it's you, you're drunk and walking home and something is following you (like a dog, but it's not, perhaps a lion or cougar, that's a scarier scenario) it was something like that. Very scary. I liked this one.
there's another story where werewolves have taken over like a king's palace maybe or something like that. That was kinda interesting.
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