![]() Since then, werewolves have been in and out of media with different interpretations, though perhaps one of the more enduring aspects of them was introduced in Anne Rice’s vampire novels and further popularized in White Wolf’s World of Darkness games, which positioned werewolves as rivals to vampires, locked in secret conflicts that regular humans neither see nor understand. Universal pictures is responsible for perhaps the most formative of these depictions with their massively successful 1941 hit, The Wolf-Man, which would go on to spawn four sequels. Werewolf stories continued to gain steam and the concept exploded with popularity in the 20th century as these stories of wolf-people in the public domain became fertile grounds for making movies and tv media. After the trials eventually ended in the 1800s, werewolves were taken up by Gothic Horror writers during the Romantic era, with authors across Europe writing stories about seemingly stand-up people by day who transform into terrors by night. And by “concepts,” I mean “beliefs” – people used to full-on believe in werewolves, and around the same time women were being accused and tried under suspicion of being witches, the same thing was happening with werewolves, most notably in Switzerland, France, Austria, and the regions that would become modern Germany. In Medieval Europe, this affliction became known as lycanthropy among Christians, and the concepts of werewolves were fairly widespread and traveled with colonialists to the New World. Werewolves originate in European folklore, and references to people shape-changing into wolves date back as early as the first century CE, when Gaius Petronius Arbiter wrote a story about a companion who changed into a wolf under the light of the moon. In today’s HTPE, we’re looking at how to paint the teen heartthrobs of the monster universe, werewolves ![]() With Halloween fast approaching, we’re looking at how to paint the spookiest monsters around. In our How to Paint Everything series, we take a look at different armies of the Warhammer universe, examine their history and heraldry, and look at several different methods for painting them.
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