On Sat, 18 Jun 1994, Carmen Burton (LIS) wrote: I'm not sure of the history of the > wolf man story, did it come from a text originally, like Dracula and > Frankenstein? Or a movie? . . . etc. Carlos Clarens' _An Illustrated History of the Horror Film_ says, "Lacking a substantial source of inspiration--there have been no literary works dealing with werewolves that can compare to _Dracula_--Universal [for such films as _The Werewolf of London_ and _The Wolf Man_] had to assemble its own set of rules from the numerous folktales available." Curt Siodmak, who wrote the screenplay for the 1941 _The Wolf Man_ says in an interview included in Tom Weaver's _Interviews with B Science Fiction and Horror Movie Makers_ that he did "a tremendous amount" of research before writing it, "[b]ooks and books on lycanthropy," but he doesn't specify which ones. If you are interested in the folklore sources, Harry A. Senn's _Were-Wolf and Vampire in Romania_ and Charlotte F. Otten's _A Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves in Western Culture_ (which includes documents as old as Ovid's _Metamorphoses_ and as current as psychiatric and medical studies from the '70s and '80s) are a good place to start. If you would like full refs, please e-mail me privately. Sylvia Swift [log in to unmask]