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I USED TO BE A WEREWOLF<br />

FIG. 8 Lon Chaney Jr in <strong>The</strong> Wolf Man.<br />

<strong>The</strong> presentation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> werewolf as a hybrid man–wolf emphasized<br />

<strong>the</strong> monster’s origins in <strong>the</strong> man; fur<strong>the</strong>r, <strong>the</strong> emphasis on transformation<br />

special effects meant that a strong contrast was to be <strong>de</strong>veloped<br />

between <strong>the</strong> human and monstrous forms. As a result, a ‘psychical’<br />

approach to <strong>the</strong> werewolf was pursued for its feature-film <strong>de</strong>but, especially<br />

as this approach had been recently explored by Guy Endore<br />

in his well-known novel <strong>of</strong> 1933 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Wer</strong>ewolf <strong>of</strong> Paris. By adopting<br />

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