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the cover. The tome, first published in 1548, offered a wealth of information. Along with teaching a comprehensive breakdown of werewolves—their habits, strengths, and weaknesses—the book chronicled prominent attacks from the early 1400’s to the mid 1500’s. Written in arcane English, each account offered more gruesome details than the last.

Kurt read the title page.

The subject of lycanthropy is dismal indeed; wrought with superstition and ceremony. Whole villages have perished under the claws of werebeasts. The question of lycanthropic existence alludes and is most fascinating. It must be considered both spiritually and scientifically. Only by balancing these two polarities can one truly understand the nature and habits of these creatures, whose power is predicated by the cycle of the moon.

This volume acts as an exhaustive study of werebeasts; their natures, habits, and methods. Their science is considered as well as many metaphysical characteristics of the species.

To scientists: you cannot completely understand lycanthropy with the devices of science alone. You must open your mind to certain spiritual considerations to fully comprehend the species.

To the spiritualist: as with any physical element that has mass and leaves evidence of its existence, lycanthropes cannot be simply dispelled as aberrations to deity. As with all creatures of nature, lycanthropes have makeup and form. They exude physiological characteristics that can be scientifically analyzed and understood.

Only with an adequate discipline in both schools—science and spirituality—can one hope to understand the nature of these beasts. This volume is an attempt to explain lycanthropes, to chronicle their known dealings with man, and to ultimately destroy them.

As both scientists and spiritualists, we issue to you a solemn warning: should a werebeast stalk your village, step with caution. For in human form, it will twist your perceptions with its clandestine deceit, even unto condemning its own loved ones to prison or death, in order to frustrate your investigation of its nature. However in bestial form these creatures revert to pure, feral instinct. They shall exert themselves even unto self-sacrifice in the determination to