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FIG. 6 Frank Kelly
Freas’s illustration
for H.W. Munn’s ‘The
Werewolf of Ponkert’.
I USED TO BE A WEREWOLF
Tudor places between 1931 and 1936 29 ) suggests this shift of focus;
horror being a reaction to something seen or experienced, as opposed
to terror, an emotion which arises in response to an imagined or psychically
experienced threat. Certainly, the presence of the ‘beast within’
was increasingly literalized in this context, with Universal Pictures
starting preparations for the fi rst werewolf feature fi lm in 1932, which
was eventually released as The Werewolf of London in 1935. This fi lm
set a number of precedents for the werewolf fi lm subgenre, not least
of which was the representation of the werewolf as male. Further,
the problem of turning an actor into a wolf resulted in a more hybrid
kind of monster created by make-up artist Jack Pierce and animated
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