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FIG. 12 Margaret
Brundage’s illustration
of Arlton Eadie’s ‘The
Wolf-Girl of Josselin’, for
the cover of Weird Tales,
August 1938.
WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES
while the ‘beast in woman’ manifests as lust. 6 Certainly, the fi guration
of the female werewolf in terms of lust was not unprecedented when
The Howling appeared; the theme had already been explored in 1976
by an Italian fi lm blending horror and pornography entitled La Lupa
Mannara, variously translated as The Legend of the Wolf Woman, She
Wolf, Terror of the She Wolf, Werewolf Woman, and, most tellingly,
Naked Werewolf Woman for its release in English-speaking countries.
The bright red lips and long fi ngernails/claws of the female werewolf
featured on the publicity poster for The Howling (Figure 14) signalled a
similar blend of pornography and horror, and sequels to and imitations
of The Howling maintained comparable associations. By rendering
lycanthropy sexually transmissible, Ginger Snaps (2000, USA) (a fi lm
about adolescent female lycanthropy) underlined the threat posed by
uncontrolled female sexuality.
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