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nineteenth century” (Frost 61). By the 1840s, the first full-length novel to focus
upon a werewolf character was released in serialized form before being
published as a book in 1857. Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf by George W. M.
Reynolds, is described by Frost as “a sprawling, Gothic melodrama . . . based on
the Faust legend” (63) that is ultimately “interminably long and padded out with
various subplots and other digressions” (64).
Following the First World War, a large number of werewolf titles
found their way onto the pages of pulp magazines. With the fantasy-focused
Weird Tales leading the way as a major publisher of werewolf fiction, these
stories were snapped up by a large audience that found the pulps more amenable
to t