#guy endore

[weirdlookindog]

Guy Endore - The Werewolf of Paris. London: John Long, Ltd., c. 1933.

#guy endore #the werewolf of paris #horror books #horror art #old books

[atundratoadstool]

Have you ever read The Werewolf of Paris? I've seen it be regarded as the "Dracula" for werewolves, and was curious about your thoughts.

[CW: Non-explicit mention of sexual violence, rape, incest, serial killing, and corpse mutilating (i.e. Werewolf of Paris typical content)]

I read The Werewolf of Paris many years ago and absolutely loved it (and--funny story--was trapped in my apartment for the first year of the pandemic with an Endore-signed copy I didn't own), although I'm not 100% sure how it would stand up on a revisit. Whereas many critics attribute vast amounts of subtextual sexual dysfunction/violence to Dracula, Werewolf just presents much the same thing as... text text. I can see how it didn't gain the same cultural traction, given how much of the plot revolves around rape, sexualized murder, erotic violence, and incest that doesn't lend itself particularly well to a Universal classic (and the Hammer Horror version was--all things considered--fairly tame). It makes a lot of sense that the iconic wolfman eventually became poor everyman Larry Talbot instead of conflicted serial killer Bertrand Caillet.

If you want some of my more personal reactions to the text, I will say that for a time Aymar Galliez was pretty high ranking among my favorite conflicted/morally dicey gothic characters, and I think I will forever be in love with regard his "Hurrah for the race of werewolves!" moment. I very much adore the ambiguity of the finale and the exhumation as well. Also, if you want a fun Werewolf of Paris/Dracula fact, it's highly probable that both texts drew from the same research source. We have explicit confirmation that Stoker draw several characteristics for the Count from Sabine Baring-Gould's Book of Were-wolves, which also contains an entry on the historical M. Bertrand and his mutilation of a girl's corpse at a cemetery.

#Guy Endore #The Werewolf of Paris #Bram Stoker #Dracula #The Wolf Man

[addictivecontradiction]

Carefree, 1938

#comedy #musical #romance #carefree #mark sandrich #allan scott #ernest pagano #dudley nichols #hagar wilde #marian ainslee #guy endore #ginger rogers #luella gear #hattie mcdaniel #valentine

[coolseabird]

What was a werewolf who had killed a couple of prostitutes, who had dug up a few corpses, compared with these bands of tigers slashing at each other with daily increasing ferocity! "And there'll be worse," he said, and again he had that marvelous rising of the heart. Instead of thousands, future ages will kill millions. It will go on, the figures will rise and the process will accelerate! Hurrah for the race of werewolves!

- The Werewolf of Paris by Guy Endore 1933

#the werewolf of paris #guy endore #1930s #werewolf #werewolves #gothic literature #book quotes

[storyofmorewhoa]

#wednesday addams #enid sinclair #charles addams #the werewolf of paris #werewolf #lycanthrope #guy endore #addams family #the addams family #wednesday friday addams

[moonmothmama]

i'm about 2/3 done and. holy fucking shit, guys

#blogging on my blog #the werewolf of paris #guy endore

[mariocki]

The Raven (1935)

"The raven is my talisman."

"Curious talisman. Bird of ill omen. A symbol of death."

"Death is my talisman, Mr. Chapman. The one indestructible force, the one certain thing in an uncertain universe - death."

#the raven #1935 #horror film #american cinema #edgar allan poe #david boehm #guy endore #lew landers #bela lugosi #boris karloff #lester matthews #irene ware #samuel s. hinds #spencer charters #inez courtney #ian wolfe #maidel turner #arthur hoyt #cyril thornton #clifford vaughan #a wonderfully grotesque horror that marries gothic Poe tropes with the scientific nastiness that was then so in vogue #Karloff gets top billing despite the fact that Lugosi is the true lead‚ a reflection on the former's meteoric rise to stardom over the #previous few years. regardless of their place in the credits‚ both are on top form: Lugosi wonderfully intense in his obsessive hate‚ #Karloff bringing complex morality as a tweaked version of his sympathetic monster role (monstrous in the eyes of the other characters and e #even himself‚ but human‚ coherent‚ natural; a variation on his contemporary monstrous appearances in the likes of The Mummy‚ The Ghoul‚ #Frankenstein). his first appearance post transformation‚ in which the 'ordinary' visitors to Lugosi's home openly express their discomfort #at his presence and instruct him to stand apart‚ is deeply affecting. it makes you wonder how Karloff's own self image fared (the script #has him refer to his remarkable ugliness before Lugosi has done any of his evil doctoring). elsewhere this film features the requisite #comic scenes that this era apparently felt were essential to horror filmmaking (and which so rarely work) and a nauseating coda between the #romantic leads‚ but for the most part this is a solid golden age classic grounded by two horror masters at the height of their powers

[streamondemand]

'He Ran All the Way' – John Garfield's last stand on Criterion Channel

‘He Ran All the Way’ – John Garfield’s last stand on Criterion Channel

John Garfield is all jittery paranoia and street-kid anger as a small-time hood in a bad spot in He Ran All the Way (1951). Over the course of a couple of sweltering days, he shoots a cop in a payroll robbery (Norman Lloyd is the partner who pressures him into the job) and takes a working-class family hostage in his escape. Hiding out at a public pool, he picks up a shy shop girl (Shelley…

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#1951 #Blu-ray #Criterion Channel #Dalton Trumbo #DVD #Gladys George #Guy Endore #He Ran All the Way #Hugo Butler #James Wong Howe #John Berry #John Garfield #Selena Royle #Shelley Winters #VOD #Wallace Ford

[studiotriggerfan397]

The Werewolf of Paris by Guy Endore.

A vicious and abnormal horror novel.

Adapted very loosely into Hammer Horror Productions' The Curse of the Werewolf by Terence Fisher.

#the werewolf of paris #guy endore #hammer horror #the curse of the werewolf #terence fisher

[thebutcher-5]

The Raven (1935)

Benvenuti o bentornati sul nostro blog. Nello scorso articolo abbiamo deciso di fare un’altra maratona, oltre quella dei classici Diseny, e abbiamo iniziato a parlare della Pixar, partendo ovviamente con il suo primo lungometraggio animato, Toy Story. La storia inizia con Andy, un bambino che si diverte a creare storie e a giocare con i suoi amati giocattoli. Quello che non sa è che quando lui…

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#Albert S. D&039;Agostino #Bela Lugosi #Boris Karloff #Clarence Marks #David Boehm #David Diamond #Dore Schary #Edgar Allan Poe #Edmond Bateman #film #Florence Enright #Guy Endore #horror #Irene Ware #Jack Pierce #Jim Tully #John Lynch #John P. Fulton #Lester Matthews #Louis Friedlander #Michael L. Simmons #movies #Recensione #Recensione film #Richard Vollin #Samuel S. Handis #The Raven #The Raven 1935 #Universal #Universal Studios

[tailsrevane]

[book review] the werewolf of paris by guy endore (1933)

(cn: discussion of bdsm themes after the break)

this is apparently considered by many to be the closest the werewolf genre has to a “dracula” or “frankenstein,” and i hadn’t even heard of it until i started researching for this project. i think a big part of that has to do with the universal monsters franchise, which really crystallized a lot of the popular culture “defaults” for horror movie monsters, not basing their werewolf movies on any specific source. and i imagine that had less to do with any perceived deficiency of quality in endorse’s book and more to do with the fact that he was blacklisted for being a communist sooooo yeah.

all of that being said i have to admit that i kinda thought the book was so-so? like, i guess that’s largely true of a lot of sort of seminal early works of horror, it’s just that with all the popular culture that’s built up around stuff like frankenstein and dracula i’m already bought in so even if the writing wouldn’t otherwise be my cup of tea, it makes the experience of reading them a lot more compelling than it might otherwise be? but yeah idk this is kind of meandering and oftentimes more interested in its politics than all the werewolf shit. and like… it’s for sure kinda refreshing to get straightforwardly leftist politics in something like this? but the politics are also by no means perfect, not that that’s ever really a fair expectation, it’s just that i don’t want anyone reading this and thinking “oh, okay, that’s what robin thinks.” like admittedly i oftentimes feel that way about things that were literally written by marx and other seminal communist theorists, so i guess it should go without saying but i kind of never assume things like this go without saying idk.

there’s a shit ton of bdsm-adjacent stuff in this that i think is actually pretty intentional so that was a pretty pleasant surprise for a book that was written almost fully 100 years ago? and yeah that is always stuff i’m gonna want in media i consume, but it’s like extra something i want in horror stuff? also the actual werewolf action when it does happen is fucking amazing, and by the end of the book the werewolf is in this weird kinky relationship where he’s just slashing up his girlfriend at night and she has all these scars and she’s kinda super fucking into it? but he’s all guilty and weird about it, so that’s a pretty big turnoff, but if you just kinda selectively ignore parts of it it’s pretty hot?

like again i wanna emphasize that in context it seems like a kinda fucked up situation and it’s not like actually inherently wish fulfilly or anything, but if you look at it kinda sideways then yeah, it would honestly be super hot. so, you know. just gonna continue fantasizing about werewolf boyfriends/girlfriends/enbyfriends/etc now. nbd.

c-rank

#reviews #books #book review #werewolf #werewolves #the werewolf of paris #guy endore #werewolf books

[weirdlookindog]

Guy Endore - The Werewolf of Paris (1933) ~ Ace Books, 1962.

#guy endore #the werewolf of paris #ace books #horror books #vintage paperbacks #horror art

[atundratoadstool]

If people want my personal, wacky crossover headcanon for how Van Helsing found a priest willing to sign off on him desecrating the Eucharist, I've long tossed around the idea of writing fanfic once more to create a world in which an older Aymar Galliez from The Werewolf of Paris hears his case.

#Bram Stoker #Dracula #Guy Endore #The Werewolf of Paris #Abraham Van Hellsing

[addictivecontradiction]

Carefree, 1938

#comedy #musical #romance #carefree #mark sandrich #allan scott #ernest pagano #dudley nichols #hagar wilde #marian ainslee #guy endore #fred astaire #ginger rogers #transference

[kintatsujo]

important worldbuilding thought is that sometimes real world shit is goofy or doesn't make sense

sometimes spec fic gets kind of poisoned by the idea that everything has to be "cool"

I always think of how derisive ppl get about Ewoks because they're "cute"

Real things are cute, real things are goofy looking, real things are unassuming sometimes, none of this makes them less what they are otherwise

Maybe watch more old animal documentaries, you know?

But also an Ewok is a person, in universe, and if you think small cute people can't be dangerous you have some self examination to do, actually

#one of the things I always found funny about the Extended Universe (now Legends) is how Everything Else on Endor is a horrorterror #and at that point it's like why are you even surprised the little bear guys can take on a chickenwalker they deal with worse all the time #now granted I don't see this attitude on Tumblr as much but gaaaawwwwd there is a REASON I don't talk about SW much

[cornbread-but-cringey]

cannibal on tiktok very excited that girldinner is becoming a thing because they misunderstand the concept.

#A Cornbread Original ™ #new guy #good thing no one cares enough to acknowledge my existence‚ lest their lack of reading comprehension lead them to believe i endores whateve #the shit tiktok's doing rn