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Ssshhhh!!!!! I'm a shapeshifter!!! LOL!

Great work as always, T-man this does sound very interesting but I think I'll be picking up the other vampire book before this one.
That thing about Lilith really sold me--have you watched Supernatural? I can't remember if you said you did...

HUGE "Supernatural" fan. The vampire book is much better due to the fact that there is much more vamp stuff out there, but this is a nice companion to it. My next review is per your request, 'Pak. I posted it last night, but it's not up yet. I'm netflixless tonight so I'll be making the rounds to see what everybody's up to here.

haha. You just couldn't resist the brief Jack impersonation could you?

It just kind of popped out of my mouth. I had to shoot this one and the Vampire Book one in 30 minutes so I had to settle for a few gaffes. It turned out sort of funny anyways. I hope.

I'm a big fan of the Vampire Book, but I'm not that familiar with this one. Could you elaborate on "lotsa pretty, pretty pictures"? Charcoal, watercolor, wood engravings, photographs?

Did you watch the video? All sorts of images in there from a full-page headshot of Jack Nicholson from "Wolf", to posters from classic films, drawings from the Middle-Ages, screenshots from movies...you name it. This is a lot like TVB, but is unfortunately padded with a lot of serial killer stories and the like. But, hey, it's still cool.

I LOVE PRETTY PICTURES. I fine Werewolves to be interesting Villain's myself and I like the sight of shape-shifters, Can you imagine the agony that they have to go through every time they form. I hope to come across this book one day for it's been a while since I've done a book review.

If you think werewolves OR villains are interesting than this is a great educational book that really delves in. There are a few different schools on the shapeshifting idea. There's the notion that it would be a painful physical change like in "American Werewolf in London", a more magical approach (the most common), and in Asia shapeshifters are not humans that change into animals, but animals that take human form. Asian culture really is the exact mirror opposite of out own, even in folklore.

Hitler had "delusions of lycanthropy"? I too broke to have to buy this book just to find out about that, Trashie. Come on, spill.

On the subject of shape-shifting in Asia; waaaay back in the 1970s there was an animated film released based on Chinese mythology called THE CHINESE GODS. You can still find copies of it very cheap in places like Walgreens. It has a cover that depicts one of the main characters as looking very much like Bruce Lee. The story revolves around a naughty little shape shifting fox. Which is really over simplifying it.

The Hitler thing is borderline obvious if you look at what he named things. Fuhrer means "alpha wolf", Woflsscgluct (his headquarters) means "wolf's gulch", his headquarters in the Ukraine was Werewolf, his pseudonym in his early political career was Herr Wolf, he demanded that his sister change her name to Frau Wolf, his favorite song to whistle was "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf" (how villainously creepy is that?). Even his first name means "father wolf". He would also reportedly behave like a wolf when he was angry, running around on all fours and chewing the carpet and the like. I'm sure all the crank and other drugs didn't help with that behavior. There's not a ton of information in this particular book which is disappointing. I know I've seen a documentary that had more but I can't remember what the hell it was. I've seen so much WWII stuff. I need to see this "Chinese Gods". I love mythology and I love animation so that tears it.