Comments on: “White-Trash Werewolf Smorgasbord”

By: bill green

bill green — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 22:06:05 +0000

all of linda godfrey books about real life werewolf encounters look realy great. linda it looks you did a wonderful job on your resent book. all your werewolf books covers realy stand out with boldness etc. i hope everyone here get linda werewolf books in near future in stores or online. linda i hope write more books about werewolfs in next couple months or next year. bill green

By: CryptoInformant

CryptoInformant — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:35:54 +0000

6: What MAROONS!

By: Mnynames

Mnynames — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:09:30 +0000

I can only imagine what some of these same people must think about the Jersey Devil after seeing the Godawful “Thirteenth Child” movie…

By: moregon

moregon — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 06:36:37 +0000

I’ve just started to read “Hunting The American Werewolf”, and so far find it pretty interesting reading.

TemplarKnight21c, I don’t know if you read her first book, but if you have make sure you read this one. One of the other creatures she touched on in her first book, other than “The Beast” she’s now found a likely ancestor for. One that is known to have existed on the North American Continent. In comparison, the modern versions seem to be considerably smaller, but many animals of today are smaller than their prehistoric counterparts.

Then again, we hit that word, extinct, funny how a number of animals who have been called extinct, are now being rediscovered. Maybe it should be changed to “assumed extinct”, and not held so definitive.

As far as the movie is concerned, I’ve yet to see it, but have heard a lot of talk about it. My guess is they probably figured the biggest money was going to be drawing the lovers of the Horror Genre into the theaters, or video stores. No blood and gore, no audience, no money, no profit. I also have to agree with Linda that there is a portion of the populace that believe what they see in this movie. There are some that know I live near the area of the sightings, and they think I’ve been holding out on them about all of the beheadings and killings and other gruesome details. When I try to tell them, that didn’t happen, I get “Oh Yeah! It’s in the movie!” Geesh!

By: TemplarKnight21c

TemplarKnight21c — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 03:49:57 +0000

Hunting the American Werewolf is a recent addition to my ‘to-buy’ book list. Lycanthropy is fascinating, so naturally, I’ll watch just about anything about were-creatures, no matter how positively horrid. Anyone else hear they’re remaking the Wolfman, probably starring Benicio del Toro?

By: twblack

twblack — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:41:20 +0000

Go get them Linda!!

By: eyeofnewt

eyeofnewt — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 22:26:09 +0000

This entry reminds me that the “Beast of Bray Road” movie is set to air on the SciFi Channel Saturday, July 15th, according to my TV Guide.

By: Jeremy_Wells

Jeremy_Wells — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:37:30 +0000

Linda,

All I can say is Amen!

I grew up on the Kentucky/West Virginia border, so I know a little something about stereotypes of rural folks myself and all I can say is Amen…

Myself, I’d not be as “nice” about the whole thing as you are.

By: lgodfrey

lgodfrey — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:47:32 +0000

LOL! Well, as I said in my original blog, it isn’t as if Elkhorn (or any town) doesn’t have a few people who do all of the above. And nothing wrong with hoisting a cold one, I’ve been known to do that myself! As for the movie (and I do own the DVD) I don’t think I’d describe myself as upset, really, I just don’t like the stereotype of small town, Wisconsin people the movie makers chose to portray. Or the implied association with my first book, which contains nary a gore-filled episode. The worst thing about it is that It sets the study of cryptids even further back in the public image, I think, when every unknown creature is turned into some head-ripping, fearsome monster and the only humans involved, other than perhaps the “visiting cryptozoologist” in the story, are shown as backwoods ignoramuses. This attitude makes it so much easier to ignore the next reports of Bigfoot, out of place kangaroos, or anything else that doesn’t fit neatly into known zoological parameters. It isn’t just the small-towners or so-far-harmless creatures that come out of this with a black eye, it’s every serious researcher into the unknown who becomes laughable by association. Maybe I actually should be upset, but if so, then so should everyone else who cares about Fortean or cryptozoological studies.
By all means watch the movie Saturday if you haven’t seen it, but as I said in an earlier post, just please go into it with the clear idea that it’s merely someone’s idea of gorey entertainment and not a source of truth about any aspect depicted. Believe it or not, there are people out there who have trouble understanding that concept. - Linda Godfrey

By: Berkastler

Berkastler — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:50:24 +0000

I just came back from a vacation in Madison, WI. We did drink some beer, and I believe I heard a foul word once or twice coming from the mouth of one or two WI “hicks”, but there was only a minimum of frackus and fray.