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Episode 585 - The Wolf-Woman (Patreon)

Published:
2022-02-24 17:00:00
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2022-02

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It's a Drac-arctic expedition and we're draggin' you along with The Wolf-Woman by Bassett Morgan!

Special thanks to our reader, Sean Burnham. Check out his weird and wonderful music under the musical moniker John Dingo!

Next up: I AM LEGEND

Comments

Tom Král

"Next up: I AM LEGEND" Can't believe my constant shilling of this amazing has actually worked. This Marches for draculas is going to be amazing!

MortalGlare
>>78553572

I don't know why but I feel certain that i've listened to them talk about I am Legend before. I am real excited for it but it's real weird.

Anonymous

This is the most Power Metal vampire story ever! Glaciers! Giant wolves! Mammoths! A naked lady standing on the mammoth! Put this story on the side of a van!!

Anonymous

No spice in a weird tale set in the arctic in which spiciness would be an acceptable plot point? The Wolf-Woman? More like Cold Spice.

Anonymous

Chekhov's mammoth 🦣?

Richard Horsman

Loved this. A few eps back Chad talked about some signs that an author had run out of steam before the story's end. Using a rock to saw through your bonds was an example. I feel like this story avoided that sort of thing quite nicely. Also on the subject of crosses having power when they shouldn't, like on someone who lived before Christ: things like that remind me that WT's main audience was pulp fans. For every cosmic horror Lovecraft fan or lover of Clark Ashton Smith's weird visions, there were 10 red blooded Americans being thrilled by a Mary Elizabeth Counselman story with a pious moral. "Of course a cross works on a prehistoric wolf woman: it works on anything! INCLUDING YOU, DEAR READER." I shouldn't do a drive-by on Counselman. Some of her stories are terrific, but when those hands get heavy, woof, those are some clunkers.

Anonymous

Y'know it's funny what kind of diverging explanations people devise when the particulars of a thing are ambiguous. Chad's divine protection racket isn't something I ever considered, amusing as it is. Oddly, I also applied secular reasoning to the whole vampire/holy symbol schtick, but to a different result—my assumption's always been that it isn't the cross repelling the vamp, and it *isn't* God. It's the faith itself they can't stand—the mortal Belief seers their flesh, rather than an external divine agent. I've heard that's even tge logic in Vampire: The Masquerade; that a CEO could theoretically repel vampires by holding out his debit card, and so-on. And if one wanted to squint, that logic could even apply in this tale, since the wolf-woman is affected by christian and non-christian wards alike.

Anonymous

I have to imagine there is a version of this story in which the wolves are thawed out and found to be vicious. Then the woman is thawed out, her eyes go wide in fright, and the wolves finally finish the hunt they'd started a few thousand years ago. Whoopsie.

Anonymous

Wow, Morrissey, Grace Jones, and werewolves. (Maybe those two being real werewolves would explain some things?) Been meaning to chime in with two werewolf things I love! 1) the song Wolf Like Me by TV on the Radio. Great tune on my “Jams” playlist. 2) The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan (novel!) - very spicy. Told from the werewolf’s perspective don’tcha know!

Anonymous

Really, by now you think scientists would know better than to randomly reanimate dead things. Leave it to the professionals -- necromancers! They know better than to wake up eons old vampire women. Well, mostly, Bob is kind of an idiot about these things.

Anonymous

This whole story reminds me of Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frost Maiden adventure for Dungeons & Dragons that came out during the pademic.

Anonymous

If you ever get around to reading Peter Watts' novel blindsight, it has a very interesting theory about crosses and uncanny beings. It is more of a Dracula story, but... It's a Dracula Story in space!!! Also there is actually a term for the Disney affect you guys were talking about in the Black Forest and Alaska: hyperreality. I think it was coined by Umberto Eco. He wrote a whole essay about it that's in his collection Travels in Hyperreality. He didn't just write about monks and how to recognize fascists!

Anonymous

"Luckily I just happen to have this resurrection formula in my backpack."

Anonymous

What was the point of the resurrection serum? The guy they were going to rescue never appeared in the story, and if the lady was a Dracula, was the serum really needed? And if the cold didn't affect her, how did she freeze? You know, when a wolf gets to be 11 feet long we generally call that a bear. And... well, there was an evil resurrected mammoth, that forgives a multitude of sins.

Anonymous
>>78740041

Speaking of Dracula's in space, did anybody else get a Tobe Hooper's Lifeforce vibe? Explorers recover a hot naked girl for the purposes of science with terrible results.

Anonymous

Maybe it was a were-mammoth

Anonymous

Hey I found some other interesting werewolf tales in a anthology of Victorian Werewolf stories called Terrifying Transformations. You guys already did one of the stories about the two brothers fighting over the wolf woman. Theres a great story in it called The White Wolf of Kostopchin thats also about a white wolf woman that manipulates her way into a family. Also there’s some chapters of a long trashy penny dreadful werewolf story called Wagner The Wehr-Wolf that are a lot of fun too.

Anonymous

Got nothing really to add except what a delightful mess to hear you guys go over. Though if I can just squeeze this under the Werewolf February wire, the latest ep of Pseudopod is a quite good lycan (no don't write it, do not do it) tail called February Moon. Pretty moving I thought. Really looking forward into diving into I am Legend. Will there be a follow up on The Omega Man. I know there was some Will Smith action flick, but Heston in all his 70's glory long before his cold dead hands got so irritating shouldn't be ignored.

Anonymous

I can see the Frazetta painting. If only I had the skill.

Anonymous

Always excited for a Canadian weird tale, set on top of Canada's highest peak no less! Especially interesting to come across a weird woman pioneer from Canada I hadn't encountered yet. It certainly didn't capture the true weird character of the northern forest that The Wendigo did, but that's an unfairly high bar to clear. Northerns are mostly non-weird, but there was even a detective subgenre, unfortunately(?) non-occult: https://darkworldsquarterly.gwthomas.org/link-november-joe-canadas-sherlock-holmes/ Also, I can't say this is definitively true, but French Canadians being tough in Northerns probably comes from the courier des bois and their mythology, though the character here appears to be Métis (a distinct nation of mixed indigenous/European (mainly French) people); although, given that Métis are a distinct people, he could be part-indigenous and part-French without being Métis, but the author is unlikely to have drawn those distinctions then. The combination of being indigenous and French Canadian would be 'shorthand' for being "earthy", wise, and in touch with the land. Blackwood had two characters doing the job in The Wendigo, for example.

Anonymous

Fun as "The Wolf-Woman" is, I was feeling disappointed by the lack of actual werewolfery...UNTIL the tale teased, and then delivered, a ZOMBIE MAMMOTH.

Anonymous

The wolf-woman being a vampire reminded me of something Chad said recently about how Dracula (the first of the draculas) is also a werewolf and how these two classic monsters often overlap. If I remember correctly, European folklore was similarly fuzzy about trolls, elves and dwarves, the mythical roots tending to be less concerned with defined races or species and more about evoking the sense of a non-human intelligence with mystical abilities and advanced metallurgy skills. It seems it's a modern habit to make distinctions our ancestors probably didn't need. Maybe it's like how local names for natural features often translate as 'river' or 'hill' where locals didn't need to clarify which one they meant. Growing up in a town next to the Thames, nobody ever called it by it's name. It was always just "the river". So I'm guessing a medieval peasant describing a terrifying creature that could swap between human and wolf forms probably didn't need to get caught up in the details of whether it was just the blood it wanted or if it bit chunks off people. Eventually they probably started to diverge when people gave advice on how to beat them, and even that gets mixed up! In the Blade films they kill vampires with silver but I've always heard silver bullets are specifically for werewolves. For vampires it's wooden stakes, and iron is for evil faeries. Do you think it's a coincidence all these things also happen to kill normal people?

Anonymous

Vampyres and werewolves in the original depiction though are quite different. The overlap comes later in literary works. Early vampires are more like zombies. The Noble birth vampire with lots of powers comes later.