Clemence Housman – författare

Clemence Housman was an author and suffragist best-known for her 1896 novella The Were-Wolf, praised by H. P. Lovecraft for "attain[ing] a high degree of gruesome tension and achiev[ing] to some extent the atmosphere of authentic folklore." Many of the horror stories of monsters and ghouls, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Welcome to the3 Books To Knowseries, our idea is to help readers learn about fascinating topics through three essential and relevant books.These carefully selected works can be fiction, non-fiction, historical documents or even biographies.We will always select for you three great works to instigate your mind, this time the topic is:Werewolves.In folklore, a werewolf is a human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf-like creature, after a curse. Belief in werewolves developed in parallel to the belief in witches, in the course of the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period.The Book of Were-Wolves reports of actual cases of alleged lycanthropy. Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould does a investigative work and bringing us real incident tied to the werewolf myth.Clemence Housman innovates in the book The Were-Wolf by bringing a woman protagonist and a sensual werewolf. About it, H. P. Lovecraft said: "attains a high degree of gruesome tension and achieves some extent the atmosphere of authentic folklore"French writer Alexandre Dumas wrote The Wolf-Leader based on the legends he heard as a child. Dumas tells the story of a man who makes a pact with the devil and is cursed with lycanthropy.Cursed, monstrous, or sensual, or one of the authors brings us his vision of this ancient myth. A book to read in a full moon night (if you dare).This is one of many books in the series 3 Books To Know. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the topics.

En algún lúgubre rincón escandinavo, dos hermanos gemelos pelean en cuerpo y alma a causa de una sensual mujer lobo a la que uno de ellos desea ardientemente. Más allá de su pasmosa facilidad para sugerir lo siniestro y articular una envolvente atmósfera fantástica, la autora se vale con tremenda habilidad de la simbología oculta de los personajes y aplica herramientas psicológicas y artificios estilísticos trasladándolos con maestría al universo del relato de horror. Desde su primera aparición, el éxito de La mujer lobo fue inmediato y el paso del tiempo no ha hecho sino consagrarla como una de las novelas fundamentales de la tradición gótica.La versión definitiva de La mujer lobo (1896, The Bodley Head) se publicó acompañada de las ilustraciones de Laurence Housman, hermano de Clemence. En su primera versión por entregas, en la revista Atalanta, el texto incluyó ilustraciones de Everard Hopkins. Laurence Housman y Hopkins crearon interpretaciones visuales de la historia marcadamente distintas: esta edición recoge ambas versiones de la mano de una esclarecedora nota de Melissa Purdue, a cuyo cargo estuvo también el prólogo de este volumen. «Un exquisito poema en prosa narrado con un sentimiento tan poco común como hermoso.»Montague Summers«Housman captura la atmósfera del auténtico folclor en una narración tensa y macabra.»H.P. Lovecraft«Clemence Housman aborda los miedos sociales en torno al papel cambiante de la mujer y aboga por la liberación, tanto de hombres como de mujeres, de las restrictivas expectativas de género.»Melissa Purdue