A Werewolf Remembers - The Testament of Lawrence Stewart Talbot
ISBN 9780970426956 New, Numbered & Autographed by the Author. Dust Jacket & End Page Art by George Chastain. Lawrence Talbot is the 20th century’s most famous werewolf. Here for the first time is his full story, told by Talbot himself, from his long lost personal journals. Some of Talbot’s exploits were popularized in movies made by Universal from 1941 to 1948 ("The Wolf Man," "Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man," "House of Frankenstein," "House of Dracula," and "Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein"). In his journals, Talbot tells of many other adventures as he sought first a release from his curse, and then revenge against the fiend that destroyed his savior, and his fiancé. Entwined with Talbot’s quests is his relationship with his father, who banished 13 year-old Lawrence from Talbot Castle. Eighteen years later Sir John welcomed home his son, by then his only heir. It was then than Lawrence contracted lycanthropy. Talbot believed the Full Moon transformed him to a murdering man-beast. Under its influence, his only desire was human prey. Apart for those hellish spells, Talbot felt what he called his “beast-self” stirring within him. In his waking hours, he always remembered his beast-self’s ecstasy at a good kill. Talbot disappeared in 1948. His journals, which cover the years before and after contracting lycanthropia, lay forgotten in a storage room of La Mirada, Florida. In 1978, the journals came into the possession of Frank Dello Stritto. Unsure of whether the musty books were a factual history, or the fantasies of an unhinged mind, he set about researching Talbot’s incredible memoir, and delved into the archives of villages across Europe—Goldstadt, Visaria, and Vasaria—that figure in Talbot’s story. And the archives of the Talbot Museum & Archive, in Llanwelly, Wales, Talbot’s birthplace. The tale that emerges from Talbot’s journals is of a noble soul, who never surrendered to the forces that tormented him, be they supernatural or in his mind.