After completing all of the mundane tasks from his clerical day job he would retire to his rectory and his recreational scholarship. Today Baring-Gould might look like the supremest manifestation of the Victorian amateur. Has anybody else ever thought of writing whilst standing upright since Baring-Gould had done it? Perhaps the only reason that Baring-Gould had written so many books was that he had fixed his body to the maximum productive advantage. Make of it what you will that Baring-Gould had supposedly written all of his 248 books while standing before a lectern. Whereas the werewolf is half man, half beast, this book stands half-upright with the dignity of science and it hunches half-over with its ghoulish sensationalism. We might suspect that a little of the wolf has already crept into its own writing. Sabine Baring-Gould was a Victorian clergyman and his The Book of Were-Wolves (1865) aims to achieve a historical and scientific overview of lycanthropy.
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